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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

Understanding the photo restoration workflow and its practical application

Tool knowledge without workflow awareness is worthless – it is similar to a carpenter knowing how to wield a hammer but not having enough knowledge of carpentry to build a workbench with it. So, in this section, we are going to be starting with workflows – or the bigger picture of how to use a hammer to build your actual project.

For this application, we will be working with a photo of my grandparents that I have included in the downloads for this section (see Original image file inside the Photo restoration project folder). As you can see, it has seen better days. The reason I chose this photo is that it displays many of the common issues with photos we commonly get asked to enhance and restore. These include the following:

  • Specks and flecks in the image
  • Washed-out dynamics
  • Wrinkles and folds

The workflow I have found most useful for photo retouching or restoration will...