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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

Adjustments and tools used in color grading

There are so many adjustments and tools used in color grading, and it really is so subjective that each artist can develop their own unique style around their color grading formulas. We have chosen, in this section, to incorporate the most frequently used, dynamic tools and adjustments that give my work its signature style.

These are not all the tools, but those that I feel provide the most value and the tools that I will be utilizing in the color grading examples later in the chapter. To make sure we standardize the tools, I have included a practice image in the downloads for this section (see Color grading base image file inside the Color grading tools_Example folder).

We will be using the same image throughout this section. I have taken the image to the point where it is structurally sound, and now it is time to color grade. So, we will be using the same image to show the tools; that way, the image does not influence the tool.

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