Professional image editing made easy with Affinity Photo apply Affinity Photo fundamentals to your workflows to edit, enhance, and create great images
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, an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing Ltd
[2023]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009748740106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Example #1 - adding adjustment layers to increase differences and make better-defined edges
- Example #2 - adjusting a selection using the menu (Grow / Shrink...)
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Part 2: Fundamental Concepts Used to Create a Simple Edit
- Chapter 6: Cropping and Composition
- Technical requirements
- Cropping fundamentals
- What is cropping?
- The mental model for cropping a photo
- Using presets for cropping
- Reading the presets
- Creating your own presets
- Releasing or resizing a crop
- Using cropping tools to adjust photos
- Overlays
- The straightening tool
- The basics of composition
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Basics of Workflows and Balancing Dark and Light
- Technical requirements
- What is a workflow?.
- Cropping the image to get the focal points right!
- Setting the levels (using curves, levels, or Exposure Adjustment layers) for the entire image
- Applying a sharpen and blur adjustment layer to the image and masking out the areas that you do not want it to apply to
- Apply the color grading you want to your image
- Balance and finishing
- Intermediate concepts in composition - the three pillars of atmospheric perspective
- Pillar 1 - objects in the foreground are brighter
- Pillar 2 - objects in the foreground are more heavily saturated
- Pillar 3 - objects in the foreground have more details
- Applying the pillars
- A practical edit walkthrough for the workflow
- Tools to set exposure (levels of light and dark)
- Exposure Adjustment
- Levels Adjustment
- Curves
- Histogram - an aid in setting exposure
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Blend Mode Fundamentals
- Technical requirements
- Blend modes and their uses
- The role of colors in blend modes
- Using blend modes in practical editing
- Blend modes and the application of textures
- Blend modes for the addition of elements in compositing
- Using blend modes and opacity together
- Blend modes in Adjustment and Live Filter layers
- Practical example
- Blend modes versus blend ranges
- Where do blend ranges show up?
- How to read the blend ranges
- Practical application of blend ranges
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Tips to make your work more dynamic
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Basics of Stock Brushes in Affinity Photo
- Technical requirements
- Introduction to the brush studio panel
- Reading the Brushes panel
- Brush management (installing, deleting, and so on)
- Importing and exporting
- Exploring the individual parts of a brush
- The General tab
- The Dynamics tab
- Making your first brush.
- Setting up the category
- Setting up your test space
- Building the brush
- Trialing and duplicating the brush
- Adjusting brush settings using the context toolbar
- Reading the context toolbar for brushes
- Applying the basics of brushes in an edit
- Steps in the edit
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Working with Color in Affinity Photo
- Technical requirements
- Working with the Color panel and the Swatches panel
- Color studio panel
- The Swatches panel
- The three most used color spaces in photo editing
- The three color spaces
- Setting the color profile in the options menu
- Tools and adjustments used in color
- The fill bucket tool
- The gradient tool
- Practical editing using color grading
- Editing sequence
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Part 3 : The Practical Applications of Affinity Photo
- Chapter 11: Compositing in Affinity Photo
- Technical requirements
- Fundamentals of compositing
- What is a composite?
- The basics of perspective for compositing multiple images
- Finding images
- Shooting images for your library
- Basic compositing workflow
- The composition workflow
- Filter and layers used in compositing
- The Liquify filter
- The HSL Saturation Adjustment layer
- Practical composition edit
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Photo Restoration and Portrait Retouching in Affinity Photo
- Technical requirements
- Exploring three common tools for photo retouching and restoration
- Clone stamp tool
- Inpainting brush
- The Blemish Removal tool
- Understanding the photo restoration workflow and its practical application
- Practical application
- What is frequency separation?
- Why would you use frequency separation?
- How to use frequency separation.
- Portrait retouching workflow and practical application
- Practical application
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Advanced Color Concepts and Grading
- Technical requirements
- The basics of color modes
- What is a color mode?
- So, what does 8-bit mean?
- The difference between 16- and 8-bit color modes
- What do I use most of the time and what is the best practice?
- Setting and modifying your color mode in Affinity Photo
- Adjustments and tools used in color grading
- Hue, saturation, and lightness adjustment
- Selective color adjustment layer
- Spilt Toning Adjustment layer
- Channel mixer adjustment
- Gradient maps
- Color balance
- Using curves to color grade
- LUTs
- Color grading practical applications
- Color grading practical edit 1 - teal and orange film look
- Color grading practical edit 2 - dynamic urban
- Color grading practical edit 3 - teal and pink neon
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 14: Destructive Filters and Tools in Affinity Photo
- Technical requirements
- Common destructive tools used in editing
- The Blur and Sharpen brushes
- The Dodge and Burn brushes
- The Sponge brush
- The Mesh Warp tool
- Destructive filters used in editing
- Motion Blur
- Depth of Field Blur
- Ripple
- Practical destructive edit
- Professional tips, tricks, and important points
- Summary
- Chapter 15: Creative Effects and Specialty Brushes in Affinity Photo
- Technical requirements
- Advanced brush concepts
- Different types of brushes
- Breaking down the intensity brushes
- Breaking down image brushes
- Working with layer effects
- Applying layer effects to images
- The practical application of layer effects
- Saving layer effects as styles
- Applying styles to new layers
- Specialty brush creation
- Creating a smoke/flame brush.
