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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

The Develop persona

The Develop persona is the persona that photographers use to develop their RAW files and is located in the top left-hand corner of the interface. If you shoot in RAW format, then working in this persona is the first step in the workflow because the act of developing a RAW file into something we can work with within Affinity destroys the image. Only in V2 of the Affinity software did they add the functionality to switch between a RAW image that had been “developed” and allow it to be turned into the raw version to be edited later. So, for me, RAW image development happens at the beginning as a preparatory step before the image can be moved into the normal photo workflow.

On the subject of developing, this is the official term for finalizing an image in RAW and converting it (compressing it) into the Photo persona. So, in the Develop persona, you will see a button called Develop; this is what that word means in this context.

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