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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

Practical composition edit

For this edit, I have included all the base images and the finished working file in the downloads for this chapter (see the Practical composition file folder in the downloads for this section). Where applicable, I have included CiA videos to assist in your understanding.

Image selection

For this edit, I developed an idea of island life, so I grabbed a photo of a wine-style glass, some ocean, and a flower:

Figure 11.16 – Before and after

Figure 11.16 – Before and after

Before we get into isolation, let’s take a moment to see where these images came from so that we can appreciate the fact we can find great images anywhere and capture them with our cell phones:

  • The wine glass was shot at a local store.
  • I used images of the Atlantic Ocean shot on vacation.
  • The splashes came from a mall fountain where I captured water rolling off the feature.
  • Lastly, the flowers came from the checkout line at a grocery store. There is no limit...