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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

Creating atmospheric layers – the rain overlay

Now we can apply the same filters and techniques we have discussed with brushes to apply them to full-blown atmospheric effects. In this case, we will be making a rain layer effect that you can apply to your images.

I have included a CiA video of the entire process (see the Technical requirements section for the link).

Setting up the effect

My layer stack is shown on the right-hand side of Figure 15.20; we have discussed all of the adjustments and live filter layers previously, so you can see how I applied them:

Figure 15.20 – Setting up for a rain layer

Figure 15.20 – Setting up for a rain layer

Let’s go over the steps now:

  1. Open a layer on top of the image you want to apply it to (in this case, I have given you a practice image in the downloads – see Rain layer base image).
  2. Fill the new pixel image with black using the fill bucket.
  3. Then, go to Filter | Noise | Add Noise.
  4. Max out the noise and...