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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 Tone Mapping persona

Now, it is time for my all-time favorite persona: the Tone Mapping persona. This is the artistic part, and it is an integral part of my workflow. This persona is the closest thing to being able to fake some of the wild Photoshop filters and effects in Affinity Photo, and I love mixing the images I tone map in with the original image to create some amazing work. So, I will discuss this section from a how-to approach and then show you one of the weird non-traditional ways I use this persona.

In all fairness, I use this persona very differently than some as I do not shoot and specialize in HDR. So, I will show you how it can be used, but I ask you to remain open to its more artistic use in everyday editing.

So, you may be wondering what it does and how to use it. We’ll discuss that in this section.

What does the Tone Mapping persona do?

Previously in this book, we had a deep discussion about color (remember Chapter 13, on advanced color). In...