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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

Destructive filters used in editing

Destructive filters can have a place in photo editing, as many filters have not been updated yet with a non-destructive alternative. So, I want to cover them here to introduce you to them, and wherever possible, I will give you the non-destructive option, as I did with the tools.

Motion Blur

Motion Blur is a cool filter that allows you to take an image and, as its name implies, apply a certain amount of blur to make the image appear to be in motion. We have included a working file for you to follow along with (see the Motion blur practice file inside the V1 Project Files or V2 Project Files folders depending on the Affinity version you are using.).

In this edit, we will be making the car appear to be traveling by using Motion Blur on another instance of the car. In the working file, we separated the car as a selection and then created a layer.

Move the layer slightly behind the car, but make sure you keep it on top of the background layer...