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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

Filter and layers used in compositing

While this book would be 1,000 pages long if we covered every filter that can be used in compositing, I have decided to narrow the scope of the filters and adjustments we use constantly for this task. While there are certainly an unlimited number of combinations and uses, I have attempted to share how we use each in the most common work areas.

The Liquify filter

The Liquify filter allows you to nudge and adjust objects while specifying some pixels not to touch. This is the non-destructive version of the Liquify persona (this persona will be covered later in this book). Think of the Liquify filter as the tool you may use to make a caricature portrait of someone or show ice cream melting. In fashion photography, the adjustment layer is used to tuck in certain parts of the body that the model may possess. This is a Live Filter layer and can be found by going to Layer | Live Filter Layers | Distortion.

Reading the filter interface

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