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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 presets and templates for use in other projects

Creating the same document over and over can be tedious, so it is better to make presets or templates. Affinity comes loaded with various presets and templates for common print and digital jobs; these come up when you open a new document (see Figure 2.12):

Figure 2.12 – Creating presets in Affinity Photo

Figure 2.12 – Creating presets in Affinity Photo

Creating presets

Now if you have a job you are working on or a certain image size you like to use, you can save your own presets; this will save things such as the size, the DPI, the color profile, and so on.

In my work as a canvas printer and T-shirt maker, a common size for me is 16x20” and I know my printer has the capability to take my RGB color profile and convert it into its software, so I will make a preset to make sure I do not have to redo this every time.

To save your own presets, use the following steps:

  1. Create a document but before you hit create, click...