Affinity Photo for Beginners | Updated for Version 2

Learn how to apply white balance in Affinity Photo, fix color cast with the yellow-blue slider, and fine-tune tint to achieve more natural skin tones and overall atmosphere.

Master the hsl adjustment to independently edit hue, saturation, and luminosity for each color channel, boosting reds, greens, and blues, while controlling opacity and re-opening the dialog box for refinements.

Learn to use the paintbrush in affinity photo: create a pixel layer, pick colors from the color panel, switch between black and white with X, and adjust size and flow.

Apply an HSL adjustment to boost saturation and reveal it only on the skirt by painting with a white mask using a brush, inverting the mask to control visibility.

Learn to use shape tools in Affinity Photo, create rectangles and circles with proportional scaling, customize corners and arrow parts, and adjust colors via the color wheel on shape layers.

Learn to use the text tool in Affinity Photo: create, type, and resize text with the move tool, change fonts and colors in real time, and edit text across layers.

Apply layer effects with the f x dialog to add Gaussian blur and outlines to shapes and text, tweaking radius, offset, color, and angle, and combine multiple effects.

Create an ice cream shop flyer in Affinity Photo by placing and cropping images into shapes. Adjust brightness and color with levels and HSL, then apply borders and layer effects.

Develop persona teaches you how to enhance raw photos by adjusting exposure, shadows and highlights, contrast, color, and selective painting to recover detail.

Shape light to draw attention to the subject with levels adjustments, masking, and careful painting, brightening the subject while darkening the background for a focused portrait.

Darken the edges using levels and gamma, brighten the subject, and refine with black or white painting and an optional HSL saturation to create a subtle spotlight.

brighten the subject with levels and gamma, then selectively paint to brighten the face, arm, and branch; enhance color with hsl saturation and organize layers into a targeted lighting group.

Learn about selections and masks to target edits to specific parts of photos, building on painting black and white on layers to gain more control.

Explore masking in Affinity Photo by applying masks to layers, shapes, text, and groups; use high pass sharpening with soft light and white painting to selectively sharpen eyes.

Use a mask to remove the background of a dog drawing, paint with black for a crisp edge and white to restore, and learn about selections in the next video.

Discover how selections and masks let you keep the dog and remove the background in Affinity Photo, using the selection brush and flood select tools.

Apply a mask to replace the sky in Affinity Photo using flood select with contiguous and 20% tolerance, then invert to remove the sky and reveal a new background.

Learn to match two photos by adjusting levels, white balance, and hue/saturation, applying changes to the sky layer to align lighting and color for a cohesive result.

Apply a levels adjustment across the full image to boost contrast. Adjust white balance toward cooler tones for a moody city scene and compare before and after.

In this chapter, bring together what you’ve learned into two final projects to show how concepts fit together and prepare you to edit your own photos after the course.

Refine a winter portrait with hsl adjustments to lips, boost face contrast via levels and gamma, and selectively paint the effect on the face and hair for a focused result.