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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

Introduction to the brush studio panel

Fundamentally, our exploration of brushes should begin with the studio panel that houses the brushes, so we will start by exploring the Brushes panel. The Brushes panel is a Studio panel that can be accessed by going to View | Studio.

Make sure the check is next to Brushes – if it is not checked, check it.

This is the Brushes panel, and it is your gateway to the various brushes that you have in Affinity Photo that you can use to add visual interest to your art.

Now that we have the Brushes panel present, let’s learn how to read the panel and dive into exactly what it is telling us.

Reading the Brushes panel

The Brushes panel is divided into a few areas. These three areas can be seen in Figure 9.1 and are coded by number:

Figure 9.1 – The Brushes panel

Figure 9.1 – The Brushes panel

Let’s explore this menu in more detail:

  • (1): The menu for the Brushes panel:

This is where you will be able...