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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

Professional tips, tricks, and important points

As a working professional, I wanted to provide some tips and tricks to help you with the concept of Exposure Adjustment and workflows as we wrap up. I’ve done this because so many new people struggle with this baseline technique and then their edit looks less than they want it to be:

  • Do not blow out the whites. Over-exposure is one of the most common things I see when an editor does not apply exposure correctly. When you blow out the whites, the program has no data in those areas to go off, and you will be forced to heal the image before you can continue with exposure. If the image is unevenly lit, then use the Adjustment layer and mask out the areas where the adjustment will cause the image to become over-exposed.
  • Try and use curves for light and dark whenever possible. Sometimes, you can get away with a simple Exposure Adjustment, but most of the time, it is beneficial to use curves.
  • Do not use destructive techniques...