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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 learned how to export, record macros, and manage our library of assets, and all of them will come in handy as your body of work grows and matures. Many beginners focus on the advanced topics and are in a hurry to gain mastery, but imagine trying to understand the Assets panel if you didn’t know how to mask or select the right portions of the image…it would be impossible. The same thing could be said for the idea of macros; if you bought a macro pack and just hit Apply…all of the steps and layers on your image would make no sense and you would have to learn what Live Adjustment layers are and be right back at the fundamental stage.

As this is the last chapter of the book, there is no next move for me, no next chapter, so let me express my appreciation for spending the time with me and allowing me to pass on what I know and love to another person. I firmly believe life is measured by what you give back to others and so for me, education...