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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

Exploring three common tools for photo retouching and restoration

In this section, we will explore three of the most common tools for learning the image replacement process. When we use the term "image replacement," we are implying that we will be removing part of the image with undesirable qualities, such as objects or colors, and replacing them with a piece of the same image that is desirable. Examples of image replacement in practical editing include the following:

  • Removing cars from portions of the street
  • Replicating trees and foliage in landscape photography
  • Removing damage to a wall in architectural photography
  • Removing undesirable skin blemishes in portrait retouching

Clone stamp tool

The Clone Brush uses a target area from an image to replace the area the brush travels over. Now, in other versions of Affinity, the context menu may change for this tool. This is the nature of software, but the overarching concepts presented in Figure 12...