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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

Tricks for refining a tricky selection

Not all images lend themselves to easy selection. As a matter of fact, for you, the first selection you try to make outside of the guidance of this book will most likely give you issues. Selection is a lot like problem-solving and so it is not uncommon that you may have to prepare images to get better selections. So in this section of the chapter, I have prepared two examples of strategies from my personal work that I use for tricky selections.

Example #1 – adding adjustment layers to increase differences and make better-defined edges

In the example that we covered in the Attribute-based selection section, we chose the highlights as the attribute selection. However, what if we could have chosen the attribute selection called select sampled color? This selection would have been tricky because of the way the image was shot. Let’s analyze the image:

Figure 5.17 – Shows the location of “hotspots” in the image

Figure 5.17 – Shows the location of “...