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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

Advanced Color Concepts and Grading

Now that we know about healing tools and fundamentals, it is time to kick our understanding of color up a notch. This involves two things to increase your skillset as an editor. The first is an increased knowledge of tools and settings for advanced color grading, and the second is the application of these tools to achieve the very popular looks that we see in modern edits. So, in this chapter, we are going to cover the tools and adjustments, as well as a discussion of High Dynamic Range (HDR) color spaces and their applications, finishing with the application of these techniques in a few very modern styles.

Now, you can get by with the basic color chapter earlier in the book; however, in my experience, as you get more mature in your editing, these techniques take you from good to great so that when people see your work, they know it from across the room. So this chapter is as technical as it is artistic, and coming back to the cooking analogy...