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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing Ltd.,
2023.
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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