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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

Artist efficiency techniques

As we wrap up this book, the panels discussed in this section are usually reserved for the artists that work with Affinity Photo on a regular basis, and we have chosen in this manual to save them for last, as it is essential to know the fundamentals prior to attempting to improve your workflow efficiency. In this section, we will be covering the finishing touches...the things that make life easier, and we have grouped them under the title of efficiency techniques, as their use is beneficial, but not necessarily required.

The Assets panel

As you mature as an editor, there will be things you create that will be beneficial to have on hand. These can include images (if you are a compositor), certain overlays such as the rain overlay from the export section previously, or even certain design elements such as borders and shapes that you use in your work. In Affinity Photo, these can be saved and categorized under the term Assets.

We have included a practice...