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Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

By : Jeremy Hazel
Book Image

Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

By: Jeremy Hazel

Overview of this book

In this book, you’ll explore the Affinity Photo program through practice-based learning as you make popular photo edits, learning the tools and techniques in conjunction with the workflow concept. Instead of comprehensive description of the tools, you’ll learn through practical application and understand why they work, not just how they work. This is neither a technical manual nor a workbook but a project-based hybrid approach that provides a deeper understanding of how to use each tool to achieve your goal. Starting with the fundamentals of navigating the interface, understanding layers, and making your first edit, this Affinity Photo book gradually increases the complexity of projects. You’ll go from single-layer edits, composites, and RAW development to putting together a complex composition using the tools that you've learned along the way. Additionally, you’ll learn the best practices used by expert photo editors for a flawless finish. By the end of this book, you’ll have a good body of work, be able to evaluate the edits you want to make, and achieve desired results with Affinity Photo.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundational and Navigation Basics for Affinity Photo
7
Part 2: Fundamental Concepts Used to Create a Simple Edit
13
Part 3 : The Practical Applications of Affinity Photo
19
Part 4: Finishing Your Edit and Building Your Own Artistic Palette

Blend modes versus blend ranges

So far in this chapter, we have been talking about blend modes; however, there are such things as blend ranges. A blend range differs from a blend mode in the following ways:

  • You can target certain dark and light values of an image to blend only if they are part of that value range (say you only want the black parts to work with the Darken adjustment)
  • You can create specialty curves to target these values, whereas blend modes apply to the entire layer without exception

So, in this section, we will be covering where to locate them, how to read the graphs they produce, and where we would actually use them in the world of editing.

Where do blend ranges show up?

Blend ranges show up in the Layers panel, toward the top:

  • In Figure 8.17, we see a cog/gear icon next to the blend mode in the Layers panel, and this is where the blend ranges exist
  • In Figure 8.17, we also see graphs that come up for blend ranges

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