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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

Creating a new document for a project

When you want to create a document for a project and know the size, such as a banner for a website (1,920x1,080 px), or maybe you want to make a 16x20” canvas print, then you need to make the project document the size of your project. To do that, click on New either on the splash screen or in the file menu in the upper left-hand corner (see Figure 2.3 and Figure 2.4 for examples of where they are in the current version of Affinity Photo):

 Figure 2.3 – Creating a new document from the splash page

Figure 2.3 – Creating a new document from the splash page

 Figure 2.4 – Making a new document from the file menu

Figure 2.4 – Making a new document from the file menu

To read the new document screen, we have attached a keyed photo of the important portions of the screen so that you can follow along (see Figure 2.5):

Figure 2.5 – Settings for new documents

Figure 2.5 – Settings for new documents

Let’s look at the points in detail:

  • 1: This is where you set the desired unit of...