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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

Using cropping tools to adjust photos

Moving beyond the basics of cropping, there are various other tools inside the cropping menu and some more advanced overlays that can assist you as the editor in telling your story. In this section, we move past the mere mechanics into the optional tools to help you as an editor.

Overlays

There are various overlays available in the cropping function to assist in getting the right crop, and you have to know the theory behind them to figure out which and when to use one. In the following subsections, we will cover the basic types and theory for the three overlay options.

Important note

Now, these are just rules and theory, so do not take them as musts. If these rules do not work for you, of course, do your own thing.

The Overlay options are in the context toolbar, as shown in Figure 6.12:

Figure 6.12 – The Overlay options available in cropping

Figure 6.12 – The Overlay options available in cropping

Let’s go through these options one by one.

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