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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

Photo Restoration and Portrait Retouching in Affinity Photo

When it comes to studying photo editing, two other common areas of specialization are photo restoration and portrait retouching. While these are two separate specialties that deal with separate objectives, with photo restoration being used to restore older/damaged photographs and portrait retouching being used in the beauty industry, the tools are very similar. The most common tools used in both these applications are commonly referred to as Healing tools. This includes tools that either clone areas of desirable photos into others or remove undesirable things such as cars, scratches, and blemishes on the skin.

While it is impossible to give you all the tools, or all the possible workflows for these activities, I have attempted to give you a working knowledge of the most common ones I use in my daily edits. Also, much like compositions, repairing older photos and fixing portraits is, at its heart, problem-solving. How you...