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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

Compositing in Affinity Photo

In this chapter, we will cover what I consider to be one of the most organic expressions of freedom when it comes to photo editing, and that is the area of compositing. Compositing means taking various images and combining them. It allows artists to expand past the world that exists and create whatever they want to make in their minds. This is a specialty of mine in photography, and I am excited to share the fundamentals of what I know with you.

In this chapter, we’ll take a short break from the technical aspect and begin to create, and explore. However, we will use every skill we learned about in the first half of this book, so all the technical knowledge we’ve covered will come in handy. To explore compositing, we will look at some fundamental concepts in composition photography, followed by exploring my workflow for composites and where to get awesome images for your composites. This will lean heavily on the composition discussions...