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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

What is a workflow?

I like to think about a workflow as a culinary activity. There may have been a certain dish your mother or father made and if they made it many times, hopefully, it tasted similar and consistent each time. However, down the street, your neighbor might make a similar dish and achieve an acceptable result but utilize a completely different recipe. This is how you need to think of workflows. A workflow is simply a pre-defined series of steps that you take to accomplish an output or an image.

Now, as I mentioned earlier in this book, the question of what is the best workflow? always comes up, and there is no right answer because there are endless ways of working in Affinity Photo. I guarantee you that five editors have developed five different ways to do the same sort of edit… remember, it is the result that counts.

As an example, when I do a simple edit that does not require multiple subjects, I create an overview of the workflow. This is a great one for...