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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

Professional tips, tricks, and important points

Here are some pro tips for you:

  • When editing and masking, rarely if ever will I use a hard round brush. Most of my editing work is done with soft round brushes with various levels of softness – it depends on how aggressively I want the edge to fade away.
  • If you want to see how an artist created their brushes for any of the brushes that you have bought or come natively loaded into the program, click on one of them – all the settings will be there for you to try and replicate. This will help you learn how the professionals build their tools.
  • I keep my Flow low (usually at 30% or so) and my Opacity high so that I have more control over strokes. This also allows me to build up more gradual effects.
  • Always duplicate brushes you want to change permanently and place them in a new category. This helps you avoid making irreversible changes to the brush and forcing you to reinstall it.

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