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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, adding to, and subtracting from a selection

After learning in the previous section that you either add or subtract to a selection, and from the principles of understanding what the intent of the selection is, it is time to actually spread our wings and soar into it.

Universal steps in creating a selection

Selection, at its core, is simply a matter of following a repeatable process over and over. Now, of course, on a case-by-case basis, there are challenges, but a simple flow will help you understand how to best meet those challenges. In my selection process, there are three steps:

  • Adjusting the tool
  • Creating the initial selection
  • Refining the selection

The only difference in the process is the type of tool you will use to make the selection, so you just have to be familiar with how to set it up. In the previous section, we covered the Context toolbar for the most commonly used tools, and so in the remainder of this section, we are going to demonstrate...