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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

Creative Effects and Specialty Brushes in Affinity Photo

Of all the chapters in this book, this one is my favorite. Due to the nature of the work that I do, specialty brushes, special effects, and superhero fantasy is the area of photo I have chosen to specialize in with my editing. This chapter is the result of not only my effort in developing some of these tools and techniques but also a way for you to create things that are fanciful and fearsome, and really take your edits to places that subtle retouching never could. This chapter also demands every skill gained from previous chapters because, to create effects like these, we need to understand selection, masking, blend modes gradients, and pretty much everything we have previously covered.

In this chapter, there will be more CiA videos than in previous chapters, as the technical directions could consume more pages than this book has. So while I will break them down, consult the videos to assist in your learning for this chapter...