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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

Intermediate concepts in composition – the three pillars of atmospheric perspective

In the cropping chapter (Chapter 6), we covered the concept of composition principles as it relates to placing elements in the image. In this chapter, I will give you another set of universally accepted principles for composition that are utilized when editing after the crop. We refer to this concept as the three pillars of atmospheric perspective, and in short, it is a list of things that help draw our viewer’s eye and make logical sense of your image in the viewer’s eye.

Pillar 1 – objects in the foreground are brighter

This means that if you have a composition, the object closer to your viewer usually has a higher exposure or is brighter. Now, do not mistake this for where the light comes from. The light will still strike in natural places, but during edits, we want the background to not be as bright as the foreground overall.

Pillar 2 – objects in the...