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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

What are adjustment layers?

Inside the Layers panel, there is a type of layer called an adjustment layer, and as the name implies, this allows you to adjust the image. They are located in the lower areas of the Layers studio panel (see Figure 3.15, item 1)

To create an adjustment layer, simply click on the type of layer and you will see it appear in the layer stack. In Figure 3.15, notice item 2 after we added a black-and-white adjustment layer. Notice the layer’s position in the stack. This means that Black & White Adjustment is applied to every layer below the adjustment layer.

Every adjustment layer has adjustments you can make, and each layer is different. We will be exploring the most popular adjustment types in our projects through the book. We will not be covering each one, but we will cover those that we use most frequently in photo editing. In the Black & White Adjustment layer, depending on the color or hue of the underlying images, you can adjust the...