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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

In this chapter, we covered the first fundamental skill of composition and also gave you the first look at some rules around composition that will help you grow as an editor. In this second portion of the book (Chapter 6 and beyond), you have all the core tools you need to perform really great edits (fundamentals such as masking, layer knowledge, and so on), and these middle chapters will be just as much art and theory as technical information.

Think of these middle chapters as being tools that will help augment the fundamentals and get your composition skills straight so that your composition is strong in the more advanced chapters, such as color and brush techniques.

In my years as a tattoo artist, it was drilled into me that the bones of a good tattoo are the outline, and while there were fundamental skills to tattooing, a poorly structured outline will never provide for long-standing work, even if the technical skill is good, the structure is weak, and these composition...