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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

Advanced brush concepts

While the basics of brushes were covered in a previous chapter (see Chapter 9), we will take the basic knowledge and expand it in this section, teaching you how to make specialty brushes using different nozzles and techniques primarily to create special effects. So let’s get started.

Different types of brushes

So far, I have shown you how to create categories, rename categories, and import and export brushes into different brush categories. However, in the Brushes tab, there is one area that we still have yet to explore. Here is where you can create different types of brushes. These options can be seen highlighted in Figure 15.1:

Figure 15.1 – The different brushes you can make in Affinity

Figure 15.1 – The different brushes you can make in Affinity

Let’s go over the options highlighted in Figure 15.1:

  • New Intensity Brush: This brush style uses values of black and white to generate the image. This is the primary type of brush we will use for this section...