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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

Opening Your First Document

In this section, we will cover the creation of your first document in Affinity Photo, bringing in the terms we learned about in the previous chapter. We will begin by exploring the differences between opening an existing photo, creating a new document, and placing an image in a new project. Then, we will learn about the fundamental differences between terms such as “document size” and “canvas size” and how to create a preset. Decisions made at this early stage relating to the document are 100% correctable; however, setting yourself up for success right from the jump is always preferred to correcting something later in the process

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Bringing in an existing photo into Affinity Photo for editing
  • Creating a new document for a project
  • Placing an image into an existing project
  • Resizing the document you just created
  • Creating presets and templates for use in...