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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

Making your first brush

Now that we have enough information to get started, let’s make our first brush. The type of brush we will make is called a Bokeh brush. Bokeh is the process of using light and shapes to add some drama and flare to an edited photo (there is a more technical definition, but in reality, that is all they are doing). Examples of before and after using the Bokeh effect can be seen in the following figure:

Figure 9.6 – Before and after using the Bokeh brush

Figure 9.6 – Before and after using the Bokeh brush

Notice that the effect involves adding circles over various opacities and hues. The blend mode has been changed to make it appear as if it is translucent. Notice that in making this brush, the techniques we are going to use include the following:

  • Brush shape
  • Accumulation Jitter
  • Luminosity Jitter
  • Spacing
  • Blend modes
  • Scatter X
  • Scatter Y

There are other ways to make this style of brush. Since brush building will be covered later in this...