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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

Saving a selection as a mask or channel

Once you have a selection, it is very strongly recommended you save the selection for the project. Even if you are really good at selection, chances of being pixel-perfect time after time are slim. As an example, if we change the angel to blue as we did in the previous example, and we later want to make her red, we will never get the exact same selection. So it is advantageous to save our selections in a project.

What are a channel and a spare channel?

So now you know about the idea of selection. A common practice is to save a selection to use on other layers. In the attribute-based selection example, when we selected the highlights, it created a selection that contained the foreground. In this section, we are going to show you how to save that for later. Let’s say you have a foreground and a background, and you only want the adjustment layers to work on the foreground, but the foreground is very detailed, and saving a mask for later...