Create Amazing Macros in Affinity Photo

Learn the basics of using macros in Affinity Photo, install macros, apply them effectively, and keep your workflow organized.

Install and import macros in Affinity Photo using the library panel and hamburger menu, so your macros are stored and ready to use from the exercise files in the course.

Open your photo, browse the library organized by chapters, apply macros, and adjust or duplicate them to see layer groups; explore sliders and masking for selective sharpening and color tweaks.

Organize macros in the library panel by renaming, moving, and deleting items, manage categories with the hamburger menu, and export entire categories for sharing—note you can't export a single macro.

Create your own macros in Affinity Photo to save editing time and streamline your workflow. Learn the basics and start making macros right away to accelerate edits.

Record a macro with the macro panel, adjust vibrance, saturation, brightness/contrast, use blend ranges to protect highlights, and apply a warm lens filter, then save to warm color practice.

Plan your macros before recording, write down adjustments, and name and group layers to keep your macro organized. Practice testing the macro on multiple photos to ensure consistency.

Edit existing macros using the macro panel to adjust lens filter parameters and color warmth, then save to the library and test changes.

Create an autumn day macro in Affinity Photo by recording a multi-layer edit that shifts greens to gold, adds warmth with selective color, and frames contrast with a curve.

Apply a vignette, shift blues to cyan, desaturate cyan, and warm skin with orange tones and light contrast. Save and test this macro on another photo to master macros.

Explore lighting and color macros in Affinity Photo to transform photos with fun effects, mastering color adjustments and lighting techniques through hands-on skills.

Apply a subtle vignette macro to draw attention inward, adjust exposure and blend ranges to keep highlights from darkening, and save the edited macro to the library for reuse.

Create a black tones macro by desaturating colors while boosting reds, darkening shadows with curves, and adding a vignette to boost contrast; test on different images for high-contrast results.

Learn to create a Polaroid picture macro in Affinity Photo by adding pink shadows, yellow highlights, and a reduced-contrast look using pixel layers, blend modes, and a curves adjustment.

Create a black and white-ish macro in Affinity Photo by revealing sliders and applying black-and-white and curves adjustments to boost contrast with red, green, and blue channels.

Create a sepia toned macro in Affinity Photo by stacking black and white, curves to lower contrast, a brown lens filter, vignette, and noise to achieve a vintage look.

Create an orange bokeh macro by overlaying a bokeh image, using levels to adjust contrast, gradient map for warmth, and blend modes with opacity for retouching macros.

Create macros optimized for portrait retouching by editing eyes, teeth, and skin, saving you time with efficient workflows.

Learn how to use grouped masks in Affinity Photo to apply selective adjustments to a hat, combining HSL, hue/saturation, curves, and a soft light high-pass sharpen within a group.

Create a teeth whitening macro in Affinity Photo by painting white on the teeth with a black group mask, desaturating yellows, and brightening shadows and highlights.

Learn to build an eye enhancement macro in Affinity Photo by creating a multi-layer base edit with sharpening, saturation, brightness/contrast, dark rim, and kicker light, using masks and brushes.

Create a detail extractor brush macro in Affinity Photo that reveals fine details with three high pass filters at a two-pixel radius, blended in soft light and masked for precision.

Master skin smoothing in Affinity Photo by using frequency separation, painting white on a black mask to reveal texture and blur the low-frequency layer.

Create a dodge and burn macro in Affinity Photo using four masks, white painting, and gaussian blur to selectively darken highlights and shadows and brighten key areas.

Create amazing macros in Affinity Photo teaches a subject enhance macro that brightens the subject, darkens the background, and uses selection, curves, blend ranges, and blur.

Create fun special effect macros to shake up realistic editing in Affinity Photo, delivering engaging effects that you'll really like.

Build a multi-layer gradient effects macro for Affinity Photo, applying quick color combinations via gradient map adjustments, with layers like cotton candy, hot cocoa, blueberry muffin, and caramel apple.

Create a dreamy haze macro in affinity photo by duplicating the image with motion blur, adjusting curves for contrast, then applying a peach gradient map, sparkles, and noise.

Create a pencil sketch macro in Affinity Photo by merging visible layers, inverting, applying color dodge and Gaussian blur, then desaturating and darkening with levels, finishing with a cleanup layer.

Create a watercolor painting macro in Affinity Photo using detect edges with subtract blend mode, brightness and contrast, split toning, and HSL adjustments, finishing with a blur to brighten shadows.

Create a fun pop dots macro by adjusting dot size, contrast, and shadows, midtones, and highlights with color overlays, apply a halftone filter, and merge layers.

Create a colorful mosaic macro in affinity photo by shrinking, moving, and duplicating image sections with the affine filter, then apply per-section hue shifts to form a four-part mosaic.

Discover how macros extend editing beyond the basics by applying macro actions to text and shapes, and start using these techniques in this chapter.

Create a 3D text macro in Affinity Photo by recording steps to stack black drop shadows behind white main text and add an outline.

Create a neon text macro in Affinity Photo using layered color overlays, blur, a drop shadow, and a black background, then fine-tune colors with an HSL adjustment.

Create a chrome text macro in Affinity Photo using a 3D layer effect, color overlay, and multiple light sources to achieve shiny, molded metal with extra contrast.

Create a gold text macro by applying layered textures to text, using a 3d effect, ambient lighting, and a subtle outer shadow to achieve a shiny, realistic metal finish.

Learn to add beautiful borders and frames to photos using macros, with a single click that makes images ready for Christmas cards, scrapbooks, and other uses.

Create a simple border macro in Affinity Photo by adding a full-width rectangle with an inner outline, adjusting color and opacity. Resize the canvas and save the macro for reuse.

Create a macro in Affinity Photo to add a flower frame, finding a vector frame on Pixabay, resizing the canvas to 2500 by 2500, and centering with an outer shadow.

Apply a macro to create a black and white frame in Affinity Photo, combining desaturation, glass glare with gradient overlay, frame placement, and batch processing of photos.

Learn to batch process in Affinity Photo by applying macros to multiple photos, enabling edits to an entire photo shoot with a single click.

Learn batch processing in Affinity Photo by applying macros to a photo shoot, selecting output locations and formats (AF photo or JPEG), and saving edits to a new folder.

Resize all images in a batch by setting the width to 1920, lock aspect ratio to prevent distortion, export as JPEG at quality 100, and preview the results.

Design a watermark in affinity photo by creating a 1000 by 1000 logo with an ornament, then build a 7000 by 7000 overlay and tile it for a macro-ready watermark.

Record and apply a watermark macro to place a large watermark image on a document, center it, and adjust opacity to 70%, then batch process images and export as jpeg.

Create a signature macro in Affinity Photo by preparing a white signature image at 1000 by 1000 pixels with transparent background, then place, resize, and offset it to the bottom-right.

Edit a batch of JPEGs or PNGs by recording a macro that applies levels, color balance, contrast, saturation, and vignette to images, then export as affinity files and JPEGs.

Finish the course with confidence and start creating amazing macros in Affinity Photo. Celebrate your achievement and join the next Affinity Revolution tutorial.