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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

Common destructive tools used in editing

In this section, we will be going over some of the tools you will see in the tools area of Affinity Photo. Your question at this point in this book might be, “Why haven’t we explored most of the tools? I mean, we have only covered some, such as basic brushes, cropping, and the move tool.” The short answer, in my opinion, is that the tools we traditionally had in earlier versions of photo editing are being replaced with non-destructive options. In this section, I have highlighted four common tools (or tool groups such as blur and sharpen that you can see in the default tools menu). I will show you how to use them, and then we will finish the discussion by reminding you of the non-destructive option that currently exists – 99% of adjustments can be made non-destructively these days.

The Blur and Sharpen brushes

The Blur and Sharpen brushes allow you to make parts of the image either more defined or less defined...