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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

The basics of composition

While laying out this book, I thought it was prudent at this point to introduce some of the artistic aspects of photo editing, as cropping is a major theme in composition. When we discuss composition, we are referring to, in this case, how the visual elements of the image are laid out (not about taking multiple images and combining them, which we will get to in the next chapter).

To get more ideas on cropping images and creating great compositions, you should start studying photographs of master photographers, studying the old master painters (illustrators), and just start studying the fundamentals of design compositions to improve image editing and creating.

How you crop and where you put the focal points in your composition drastically affects how your viewer travels through your image. Do not overlook the fact that they are taking a journey when evaluating the image. We have covered a few of the universally accepted principles for composition as we...