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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

Color grading practical applications

While we will be doing practical color grading, I realize that everyone’s interpretation of color (what looks good and what looks bad) is different, so if any of the adjustments I make to my edits do not suit you, feel free to change them. My work is usually heavily saturated and highly dynamic (I do not do subtle very well) so make adjustments to suit you.

In this section, we will be covering some very popular adjustment styles you see in common edits, but feel free to make your own modifications,

Color grading practical edit 1 – teal and orange film look

One of the most common and frequent adjustments in the area of films is the popular teal and orange look, and this is a simple edit accomplished with a few of the previous elements stacked together:

  • Color balance
  • HSL
  • Channel mixer

The goal of this adjustment is to get the channels to give you an orange tone to highlight the skin, and completely offset...