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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

You now have the most freeing artistic aspect of photo editing under your belt – compositing! You did a lot in this chapter, from learning the fundamentals of perspective, vanishing points, and the workflow to making it all happen – you are now mature in your journey into photo editing.

In this chapter, we covered the idea of what a composition is, the universal idea of perspective and placement, where we can get images, common tools such as the Liquify and HSL Shift layers, and how to use workflows and applications for composition.

In the next chapter, we will cover another sought-after skill known as portrait retouching, which we can do using the healing tools available in Affinity Photo. The reason we have included this section first is that the process of retouching photos often involves recreating pieces using the problem-solving and composition techniques you learned about in this chapter.