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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

What is frequency separation?

One of the most utilized techniques in portrait retouching is the act of frequency separation. Frequency separation allows you to split an image into what are called frequencies. There are two of them – a high frequency, which contains the texture information, and a low frequency, which contains the color and tone information.

Notice in Figure 12.11 that there is a texture layer over the light red square. This is exactly how a texture works when applied to a photo. So, instead of adding a texture layer that’s applied over a layer, think of frequency separation as extracting the texture from a photo and separating the photo and the texture:

Figure 12.11 – The theory of frequencies – high is texture, low is tone and color

Figure 12.11 – The theory of frequencies – high is texture, low is tone and color

In the following sections, we will dive into the more practical uses of this theory, as well as complete a project to show the concept in practice.

Why would you use frequency...