PROFESSIONAL IMAGE EDITING MADE EASY WITH AFFINITY PHOTO apply affinity photo fundamentals to your workflows to edit, enhance, and create great images

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A comprehensive photo editing guide from a professional artist for Affinity 1.0 and 2.0 users covering best techniques to fix problems in edits and understand workflow Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Learn to use masking, selection, brushes, blend mode, and color tools in the photo editing workflow Unveil advanced personas used in the editing pipeline like tone mapping, liquification, and more Create your own brushes and build your artistic pallet in Affinity Photo Book Description 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. What you will learn Develop a repeatable methodology for use in your photo editing style Understand the most frequently utilized techniques by professional editors Complete a body of work for use and reference in future projects Develop your own libraries of assets, macros, and tone-mapping presets for your style Recreate popular editing styles used in print and film Recondition old family photos Understand and deconstruct other editing styles to expand your knowledge Who this book is for If you are a beginner to any form of photo editing or are a Photoshop user switching from Adobe, this book is for you. This book is also for small business owners who want to do brand-specific editing on stock photos but have limited experience in photo editing. Beginner-level editors, photographers, and people looking to get into product photography and advertising will be able to make the most out of this book.
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Hazel, J. (2023). PROFESSIONAL IMAGE EDITING MADE EASY WITH AFFINITY PHOTO: apply affinity photo fundamentals to your workflows to edit, enhance, and create great images (1st edition.). Packt Publishing Ltd..

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Hazel, Jeremy. 2023. PROFESSIONAL IMAGE EDITING MADE EASY WITH AFFINITY PHOTO: Apply Affinity Photo Fundamentals to Your Workflows to Edit, Enhance, and Create Great Images. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing Ltd.

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Hazel, J. (2023). PROFESSIONAL IMAGE EDITING MADE EASY WITH AFFINITY PHOTO: apply affinity photo fundamentals to your workflows to edit, enhance, and create great images. 1st edn. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing Ltd.

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5050 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Foundational and Navigation Basics for Affinity Photo -- Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Vector versus Raster Art and Basics of the Interface -- Technical requirements -- Differentiating between raster (pixel) and vector-based images -- Why you would use one over the other, and how to choose the correct type of art -- Understanding DPI and why it matters -- Understanding the role image size plays in image quality -- Understanding color profile and how it factors into your image -- RGB -- CMYK
5058 |a The six areas of the Affinity Photo Interface -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Opening Your First Document -- Bringing in an existing photo into Affinity Photo for editing -- Creating a new document for a project -- Placing an image into an existing project -- Resizing the document you just created -- When you want to change the document size -- When you want to change the canvas size -- Creating presets and templates for use in other projects -- Creating presets -- Creating templates -- Professional tips, tricks, and important points -- Summary
5058 |a Chapter 3: Layer Fundamentals -- The Heart of Affinity Photo -- Technical requirements -- Understanding layers -- What is rasterizing a layer? -- Working with layers -- the demographics -- What are adjustment layers? -- What are live filter layers -- What are text layers? -- Layers -- practical editing practice -- Professional tips, tricks, and important points -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Basics of Masking in Affinity Photo -- Technical requirements -- Basics of masking and making your first mask -- Masking principles -- Making a simple mask on a Pixel layer
5058 |a Masking Adjustment layers or Live Filter layers -- When to use this technique -- Making a gradient mask -- Where is the gradient tool, and how do we read it -- Utilizing a clipping mask -- vector -- Shape-based clipping masks -- Curve-based clipping masks -- Practical masking application -- The edit breakdown -- Operational steps -- Professional tips from this edit -- Professional tips, tricks, and important points -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Selection and How to Achieve It in Affinity Photo -- Technical requirements -- Principles of selection -- What is Affinity Photo doing when it selects?
5058 |a How to think of a selection -- the three statements -- When do you use selection? -- What does a selection actually look like? -- Types of selection -- Tool-based selection -- Attribute-based selection -- Creating, adding to, and subtracting from a selection -- Universal steps in creating a selection -- Tool-based selection -- using Selection Brush -- Attribute-based selection -- tonal selection -- Saving a selection as a mask or channel -- What are a channel and a spare channel? -- Creating a spare channel -- When to use this technique -- Tricks for refining a tricky selection
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