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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

In this chapter, we focused on two distinct areas that we looked at in detail. You now know how to edit in RAW with Affinity Photo, along with why and how RAW works and what it is trying to do. By far, though, the work we did with the Tone Mapping persona as a creative tool was my favorite. The wild colors, the pushing of boundaries and limits, and the subtle dance of blend mode, opacity, and masking can make your image impossible to replicate and give you that signature style (if you haven’t figured it out by now, mine is more extreme contrast and vivid colors).

With that, we have come to the last chapter in our beginner’s journey, which involved exporting and then rounding home with some artistic techniques to get you out of the beginner stage and get you working like a professional.