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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

The three most used color spaces in photo editing

You are going to hear the terms color spaces and color profiles when moving into your editing career. I am going to give you a simple, non-technical breakdown of them as I use them; how deep you want to go after that is up to you:

  • Color spaces: Color spaces are different ways color is represented using math – for example, RGB, CMYK, and LAB. Each of these models uses math to represent color differently.
  • Color profiles: Color profiles are what you assign or download. As an example, if you were to print your image on a Canon printer, you would download the Canon printer color profile; it would convert your colors into something the printer can match as an equivalent.

We will go over the three most common color profiles in this section. While it is outside the scope of this book to describe the technical terms of each in detail (people have entire manuals on color theory and grading), we have included what you...