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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

Summary

We did a lot in this chapter. We started by learning about pallets, swatches, and color spaces, but perhaps the greatest single thing you can take away from this chapter is the information provided about the gradient tool, which is by far the single most important tool to use to color, mask, and adjust in photo editing. Following that, we covered a real practical application where we made two gradients and created an amazing edit using lighting.

With this first half of this book out of the way, we can finally discuss more advanced compositions. Now that we have adequately explored color and the use of tools, we will shift to what I consider the purest creative expression of photo editing: the idea of composition. When we look back at our journey, we have undertaken all of the fundamentals, such as selection, masking, coloring blend modes, and more. All these aspects will come into play when we cover composition in the next chapter. I will see you there, but for now, go outside...