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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

Applying the pillars

As a practical example, let’s look at Figure 7.1 and see if we can use the three pillars mentioned in the previous section.

This untouched image is available as a download for this chapter so that you can follow along (the name of the image is Atmospheric Perspective image.JPG; go ahead and download it to get started with the steps). We will only use four steps in this edit to illustrate the concepts, but notice how we use the concept of masking using a gradient from previous chapters.

The flow is simple. Figure 7.1 shows the completed image side by side. (Can you spot the three pillars in the application?) Notice the increased sharpness of the petals closest to the foreground:

Figure 7.1 – The three pillars applied to an actual edit

Figure 7.1 – The three pillars applied to an actual edit

Let’s get started with the steps, where I will tell you how I achieved the result shown in Figure 7.1.

A practical edit walkthrough for the workflow

Figure 7.2 shows my...