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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

Summary

We did a lot in this chapter, and this is one of the most artistic chapters of the book. You learned about color spaces, applied five tools for basic color grading, and learned about three popular stacks (teal and orange, neon, and urban orange). So, now you know the isolated tools and you have physical proof that you can combine them into something amazing.

The world of color grading is an evolving one. We have not covered CMYK and LAB aside from mentioning them, and certainly, every great editor out there has their own secret sauce for achieving their signature look. I encourage you to play with other styles, emulate the ones you like, and find yours. I will tell you, after a few years, you can pick my images out of a lineup given the color grading that is done. Now, it is time to turn the page and talk about the dirty side of editing…the black hat side…the destructive side.

Up until this point, we have been exclusively focused on non-destructive editing...