
How This Course is Set Up
The Editing Process
Relationship Between Shooting and Editing Photographs
Installing Affinity Photo 2.
Installing or Moving Affinity Photo 2 to a Different Drive in Microsoft Windows.
Installing Raw Image Extensions in Microsoft Windows.
Learn a basic tour of the Affinity Photo 2 interface, including photo and develop persona, tools, layers, and menus to navigate the program confidently.
Explore affinity photo's five editing personas: photo, development, tone mapping, liquify, and export, to manage layers, hdr merging, and exporting formats.
Zoom in and out in Affinity Photo 2 using shortcuts for zoom in, zoom out, and zoom to fit, enabling precise viewing and editing at the optimal scale.
Cropping.
Straightening.
Keeping and Changing the Aspect Ratio of an Image.
Explore digital photography file formats, including raw formats, JPEGs, TIFFs, and PNGs. Learn how Affinity Photo saves editing data for re-editing and final output.
Different File Types and Different Uses
How to Export a File in Affinity Photo
Learn what a raw image file is, its advantages in dynamic range, color, and lossless compression, and its size and format challenges, plus how Affinity Photo edits raw files.
Affinity Photo 2 handles raw edits by moving between develop and photo personas and selecting pixel, embedded, or linked output; embedding preserves raw data for re-edits.
Learn to make nondestructive raw image edits using the develop persona, adjusting exposure, shadows, highlights, and white balance on a raw layer embedded with histogram guidance.
Explore layers and transparent backgrounds by adding a public domain alpha background image. Move, preserve aspect ratio, and toggle the layer for export with or without a watermark.
Learn to manually paint masks and create a composite photograph by replacing the sky in Affinity Photo, matching lighting, color, and texture for realistic blends.
Whether you are an experienced photographer or just starting out, Affinity Photo 2 is a very capable photo editor at a very affordable price that has many features of more expensive photo editors. This course is not only designed to teach you the basics of how to use Affinity Photo 2, but is also designed to give you some tips and theory that will help you make choices when you are shooting and editing to get the most of some of the features of Affinity Photo.
The course will give you a firm foundation and understanding of Affinity Photo 2 and many of the standard techniques used in photo editing in general. It will also give you a great starting point for exploring advanced topics in Affinity Photo and photo editing. Some of the topics we will go over in the course are:
How to do Basic Photo Editing with Affinity Photo 2
Cropping and Leveling a Photo
How to Edit Raw Image Files
How to Retouch Images
How to Adjust White Balance
The Difference Between Major Digital File Formats Used in Photography
How to Use Layers
How to use Adjustment Layers
How to Use Masks
How Create Gradient Masks
How to Create a Mask with the Selection Tool
How to Add Text to Images