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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

Applying the basics of brushes in an edit

In this section, we will use the brushes we created in an edit. However, the last part of successfully using brushes is being able to adjust them inside the image.

Quick editor’s note

There is no perfect brush that is 100% applicable out of the box for every image. You will always have to adjust and tweak the brush so that it fits the image.

To work with the context toolbar for the brush tool, we will be using the image shown in Figure 9.12. We have edited the image using brushes so that you can follow along and have also included the working file in the downloads for this chapter (see the Bokeh practice file RAW). This image has been edited a significant amount, so it is a good example of how adjustment layers, masks, and selection can be stacked. Notice in Figure 9.12 that we have used some of the techniques from earlier in this book.

The settings for the color are shown in Figure 9.12 so that you can use the same color...