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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

Cropping and Composition

In the previous chapters of the book, we have dealt with getting you up, running, and editing in the quickest, most logical way possible, and to accomplish that, we have been holding the assumption that the image as shot is acceptable and does not need anything removed, or it does not need to be cropped. In this chapter, we will remove this assumption because a key portion of a workflow (what we will be working with in the next chapter) is cropping the image to create the right composition, the right structure and flow to draw the reader’s eye through the elements of the image you want them to see.

This chapter will be technical, covering what a crop is, how to get the desired output from your cropping activity, and how to correct it with the tools inside the cropping function of Affinity. After that, we will take a look at the composition elements in your image. We will cover things such as the rule of thirds and the concept of the golden spiral...