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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 Export persona

The Export persona is the final persona available in the Affinity Photo program, and it is in the upper-left corner of the interface. In order to understand this persona, we have to get a few terms down and an intent of what it is trying to do. This will make the mechanical portions of the program make sense:

  • Intent (what is this persona trying to do?): This persona allows you to export multiple formats, sizes, and portions of your image all at once. For example, let’s say you want to export the image in .png format at the original size, but you know that you will be placing an image preview on your website at 1500 x 1500 px. You can set up the Export persona to create both formats when you hit export.
  • Terminology (slices): In the Export persona, we refer to the areas you want to export as slices, and a slice can be part of an image, such as a layer, or it can be a selected part of the entire image, such as the upper-left corner.

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