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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

Summary

This chapter concludes the strict operational fundamentals you have to know as an editor. There is no easy way to teach complex subjects such as masking, selection, and layers… so you just have to go through it and practice.

So far in this journey, we have covered the fundamentals of layers and the basics of masking, and with this chapter coming to a close, you know how to select, revise, and deselect from a variety of tools. You also know the fundamental principles of what the software sees to form a foundation to build from.

In this chapter, we did several selections if you followed along with the downloads, and so I would like to formally turn the page and introduce a chapter after this by taking everything we have learned and talking about workflow and composition – the more artistic side of editing.

In the next chapter, we will look at the role of cropping in composition, as how you crop your image tells the story for your viewer. So we can leave...