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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

Professional tips, tricks, and important points

Now, let’s look at some important tips:

  • Photo restoration and photo retouching are all exercises in problem-solving, and each problem requires you to come at it differently. So, as you build your toolbox of solutions, develop workflows and stacks that you know work.
  • When you are replacing parts of an image, make sure you read the areas around it to figure out what tool to use. For example, in the wedding image edit, we made a path because using the clone or the Inpainting tool would not give us the best curvature.
  • You may not be able to save an entire image, so focusing your attention on the parts that truly matter (such as the faces of my grandparents in the restoration lesson) grabs the audience’s attention and places it on the pieces that they want to see.
  • When doing photo retouching, remember to keep the strength low and the hardness on the adjustments soft – humans do not have hard edges.
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