Mastering Affinity Photo 17 Tips & Tricks

Zoom in to view one artboard at a time, then duplicate or copy and paste artboards across documents. Design in Affinity Designer for multi-page work and import to Affinity Photo.

Employ the background eraser brush tool to remove backdrops quickly while keeping birds intact. Keep a copy of the original image to safeguard your work, since this method is destructive.

Turn a selection into a new brush in Affinity Photo to paint custom flowers. Open the brush panel, rasterize the layer, and adjust spacing, flow, rotation, and dynamic options.

Discover how Affinity Photo blends vector and raster workflows by using a pen tool, shape tools, and geometry operations to create and customize a scalable emoji from assembled vector shapes.

Customize your left toolbar to speed work by using two columns, dragging out frequent tools like pen and node, and grouping tools with separators.

Master depth of field blur in affinity photo using a circular ellipse to keep the subject in focus while blurring the backdrop on artboards, adjusting radius and vibrance.

Master the power duplicate in Affinity Photo to copy objects while preserving the last transformation, using Command J or Ctrl J to create spaced, rotated copies via the dialog.

Learn eight Affinity Photo workflow tips at halfway through the class, including artboards from designer, background erase brush, brush from selection, vector tools, depth-of-field blur.

Save history stores document changes for future undo across sessions and devices. Enable it in the file menu to keep history within the document; off by default to save size.

Explore the AI tools in Affinity Photo, clarify misconceptions about AI image generation, and learn to use third-party AI tools like Luminar Neo for sky replacement and selective masking.

Use float view to detach the main artboard and move studios across multiple screens, or open a new view to see the same document on a second monitor or iPad.

Rasterize any pixel-based layer and switch to Develop Persona to adjust exposure, temperature, color, and lens corrections on JPEGs or PNGs. Return to Photo Persona to apply edits.

Explore how to use inpainting fill with any selection tool in Affinity Photo, switching between inpainting brush and selection-based fills to seamlessly remove objects and fill with the surrounding backdrop.

Master brush shortcuts in Affinity Photo by using keyboard controls to adjust brush size, rotation, and opacity, plus symmetry with live previews.

Embed documents inside an affinity photo file to create mockups, using a placeholder that updates when you edit the source document, similar to smart objects.

Explore how the Affinity family shares features across Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher, highlighting cross-compatibility like quick grid, multi-artboards, and tables you can reuse.

Master ten essential keyboard shortcuts for Affinity Photo, including navigation with plus and minus and spacebar pan, undo/redo, select and group, and power duplicate with shortcut J; download the PDF.

Enable the iPad command controller to access visual keyboard shortcuts, duplicate shapes with command, use shift, and speed up workflow with tips that apply to iPad version of Affinity Photo.

Learn 17 tricks to boost your workflow and speed in Affinity Photo, using two revisitable workbooks and practical daily project practice to refresh memory and master the hacks.