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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

Shapes in Affinity Photo

In the first part of the book, we alluded to the use of shapes in some of our various activities and projects; however, in this section, we will explore the subject formally to give you an idea of how these things are actually used in photo editing and discuss how to edit them to get you the desired shape.

Creating shapes

Shapes are created utilizing the tool highlighted in the following screenshot:

Figure 16.11 – Location of the shape tool and three shapes we will be using

Figure 16.11 – Location of the shape tool and three shapes we will be using

There is a small triangle in the lower corner that has all the shapes in it. Notice that there are the normal shapes (such as rectangles, ellipses, and so on) but also some of the more abstract shapes (such as callout clouds, polygons, arrows, and so on).

To select a shape, simply choose the tool and click on the workspace, dragging the shape to the size you desire. See Figure 16.11, where I have used a rectangle, star, and arrow shape. If you...