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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

Basics of Workflows and Balancing Dark and Light

Welcome to the first workflow-based chapter in this book. Up until this point, we have been working on fundamental techniques that you needed to understand to get here (things such as masking and selection). Now, we will turn our attention to the idea of workflows – the quickest way to teach a technique is in the context of workflows. So, in this and other chapters dedicated to workflows, we have divided them into three topics:

  • Concepts related to workflows: In this chapter, we will cover the three pillars of atmospheric perspective
  • Doing an edit using a workflow: In this chapter, we will be doing a flower edit
  • Expanding on tools you could use in the edit: In this chapter, we will cover multiple ways to adjust the lights and darks of your image

By structuring in this manner, you will learn repeatable proven workflows that get you moving quickly while increasing your tool knowledge by having an actual context...