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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

Summary

Take a look at the following artworks:

Figure 15.21 – Artwork 1

Figure 15.21 – Artwork 1

Figure 15.22 – Artwork 2

Figure 15.22 – Artwork 2

Figure 15.23 – Artwork 3

Figure 15.23 – Artwork 3

Wrapping this chapter up, I wanted to point out that these types of images are why I got into photo editing. I never liked landscapes, architecture, or portraits. I loved the idea that you could take an image and make it more, or combine a mundane image with another and create something no one has ever seen; editing allows me to do that. So far, I have not included many of my artworks but as we are getting close to the end of the book, I wanted to give you a word of encouragement. You have almost every technique I use to create my own style of art, so I added a few of my images to show you how far you can climb with just this little bit of knowledge. Throughout this book, I have kept saying, “You do not need to know everything and a handful of techniques...