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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hazel, Jeremy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing Ltd., 2023.
Edición:1st edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
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