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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

Basic compositing workflow

Now that we know what the act of composition is, and we have a handful of images to work with, it is time to look at the workflow differences between what we have done so far and the unique challenges of composition. So far, the only workflow we proposed (in Chapter 7) for standard single-image editing was as follows:

  1. Crop the image to get the composition correct.
  2. Adjust the levels for the image.
  3. Adjust the focus to tell the story of what to look at.
  4. Apply the color grade.
  5. Balance and finish.

Now, we will get a bit more mature and increase the complexity of the workflow since we will be harvesting multiple images to create a unified image.

The composition workflow

I have included an example composition that I have done to illustrate these concepts (see the Composition breakdown file in the downloads for this chapter). However, in each step, I have broken down the image into layers so that you can see the image come together...