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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

Working with the Color panel and the Swatches panel

In this section, we will explore the visualizations of color in Affinity Photo, how we see color in the program, and how to choose a color for our images. We will also explore the use of pallets, which is how we can save colors for later and also share them with others. This section is not about color theory but rather about the mechanics of how the Affinity Photo program shows us color.

Color studio panel

The studio panel for color can be found in the View menu in the studio. If there is a checkmark beside Color, then it is already on the right-hand side of the interface – we just have to drag it out.

This was covered earlier in this book, so it should be easy to find. However, be aware that the look of the panel may be significantly different than what I have shown in Figure 10.1. This is because, depending on the version of the program and your settings, it may be showing a wheel or a slider. So, if yours looks...