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Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

By : Jeremy Hazel
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Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

4.7 (7)
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)
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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

Practical destructive edit

This edit follows part of the same workflow before, but with a couple of extra steps due to the destructive nature of the edit. We have included both V1 and V2 versions of the finished files for this edit in the downloads if you get lost. In the working files for this edit, it is best to make all the layers invisible and begin at the original layer and then click each one visible at each step. This will allow you to see where I applied edits, and how much I did. Typically, you do not have to do this process in a non-destructive workflow because the adjustment layers are all there and we can click them off and on. However, we can’t do this in a destructive edit. Let’s get started with the steps:

  1. Duplicate the Background layer and then lock it. Make the background invisible, and rename the new layer Editable 1 (see Figure 14.10):
Figure 14.10 – The layer’s structure and the two channels created by the selection

Figure 14.10 – The layer’s structure and the two channels created...

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