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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

Tools and adjustments used in color

Now that we know all about color, I wanted to provide you with a quick list of the most common tools that I use daily when performing edits. I have not covered every tool that deals with color, but rather the tools that I use most frequently, so if you see a tool you use that I don’t cover here, it may be elsewhere.

The fill bucket tool

This tool is the simple workhorse of the color world and is the tool you use to fill things. When I use the term “fill things,” I am referring to pixel-based items. Here are some examples of what you can use the fill tool on:

  • Pixel layers
  • Selections
  • Adjustment layers
  • Mask layers

You can’t use this tool to fill shapes, text, or anything else that is not pixel-based.

Using the fill bucket tool

With the tool selected, simply choose the color you want from the color menu, then click on the object you want to fill. The layer or selection will be filled...