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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

Editing in Other Personas in Affinity Photo

So far in this book, we have been working completely in what is called the Photo persona, but Affinity has more personas that we can work with to accomplish our photo editing goals. In this chapter, we will explore three additional personas and how we can leverage them to build one last building block on the very solid foundation we have established so far. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • The Develop persona – also known as editing in RAW
  • The Liquify persona – a holdover that was replaced in a later version of V1 by the non-destructive option for a Liquify Distort Live filter
  • The Tone Mapping persona – an editing space that allows us to adjust High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, but also create amazing effects

While we will be covering some of these in a great deal of depth (such as the Develop persona), we will not spend much time on others, such as the Liquify persona,...