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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

Portrait retouching workflow and practical application

Now, it is time to practice the process of portrait retouching. The workflow for portrait retouching is very similar to that of portrait refurbishing, except we utilize frequency separation early in the process and we frequently use Merge Visible to create a new image at each stage. My workflow for portrait retouching involves the following processes:

  • Structural adjustment (removal of artifacts, cropping, and so on)
  • Imperfection removal – that is, skin smoothing, lighting hotspot removal, and overall blemish removal.
  • Dynamics adjustment (non-destructive dodge and burning, curves adjustments)
  • Colorizing and finishing

Practical application

To practice this, I have included an image of my wife on our wedding day. This image has already been edited, so we have very little to do, but this is good as we can focus on the workflow rather than the enormous nature of a full edit. We have included this...