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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

Making a gradient mask

In the previous sections, we learned how to apply a simple painted mask to an image, but sometimes you want that smooth transition from one image to another, or a smooth transition from the adjustment into the natural image, such as a color layer into the sky. This is where gradient masks come in. Gradient masks are commonly used in double exposures.

To understand the gradient mask, you have to understand the Fill tool. We will use this tool later in the course for color grading, but now is the time to explore this tool for masks, so let’s get into it.

Where is the gradient tool, and how do we read it

The gradient tool is found in the tools area on the far left and looks as shown in Figure 4.7, along the left-hand side of the interface (remember, if you do not have it, go to View tools | Customize tools, and drag it into your menu):

Figure 4.7 – The fill tool location, context, and the layer setup

Figure 4.7 – The fill tool location, context, and the layer setup

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