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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

Exploring the individual parts of a brush

Now that you know how to add, import, and export brush categories, we need to look at the individual portions of the brush. To accomplish this, we will be working through a basic 16 px soft round brush (this means that it will be in the Basic category that comes with Affinity Photo). If Affinity removes this brush in later updates, rest assured any soft round brush will do, so the following instructions still apply.

If you click on the soft brush, the individual adjustments for the brush will appear. There are four adjustment tabs:

  • General
  • Dynamics
  • Texture
  • Sub Brushes

As this is a basic chapter, we will only cover the General and Dynamic tabs. We will save the Texture and Sub Brushes tabs for the advanced brush-building chapter later in this book (see Chapter 15).

The General tab

This is what the General tab looks like:

Figure 9.4 –  Overview of the General tab

Figure 9.4 – Overview of the General tab

Let’...