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Essential Affinity Photo: Image Editing Techniques using Affinity Photo for Desktop Kindle Edition

by Robin Whalley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Quickly learn Affinity Photo image editing

Owners of Affinity Photo 2, please see my book "Essential Affinity Photo 2"

Affinity Photo is the hot photo editing package from Serif. It can compete head on with the latest version of Photoshop. It’s also affordable, incredibly powerful and exceptionally flexible. But all this power and flexibility brings its own challenges.

Just like Photoshop, Affinity Photo can be confusing and tricky to learn. Even with a background in Photoshop image editing it’s likely you will miss a lot of its features. And unlike Photoshop you won’t have an endless choice of books to learn from. Which is where “Essential Affinity Photo” comes to the rescue.

In this comprehensive yet easy to follow book, Landscape Photographer Robin Whalley explains the core features of Affinity Photo Desktop. Written in his unique, easy to understand style, Robin explains logically the essential techniques you need to know to learn Affinity Photo. Follow this book and its examples and you will soon be editing images as though you have been using the software for years.

The book is arranged into a series of lessons that focus in on the essential image editing skills. Each lesson builds on the previous one, minimising repetition and saving you valuable time.

You will learn about:

  • Different Affinity Photo Personas, what these do and how to navigate them.
  • The Develop Persona, using it to convert a Raw photo file into a high-quality image.
  • How layers form the backbone of the Photo Persona and how to use them to improve your editing.
  • Different Adjustment layers, filters and live filters you can apply, to fine tune and improve your photography.
  • How to convert your images to black and white as well as important techniques such as Dodging and Burning.
  • Creating and using layer masks to precisely target your adjustments to specific areas of an image.
  • Harnessing the power of the Export Persona.
  • And lots more.

Throughout the book there are examples and exercises for you to follow. The author provides the images for these on his website, allowing you to follow along on your own computer.

You won’t need to wade through hundreds of pages to find answers. This is a comprehensive and concise guide to help you learn Affinity Photo. It doesn’t matter if you are a complete novice or have some experience of Affinity Photo, this book could help improve your Affinity Photo editing.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NF5NQLW
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Robin Whalley is a Landscape Photographer with a passion for software, photo editing and a skill for sharing knowledge. He’s been honing his photography skills since 2000, starting first with film before moving quickly to embrace digital. Although not widely known as a photographer, his work has sold around the world and appeared in the popular photographic press. His photography has also appeared in several exhibitions, including The Landscape Photographer of the Year. He now runs Lenscraft Photography, where he shares insights into creating beautiful and engaging photographs.

Visit Robin's Lenscraft website https://lenscraft.co.uk

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4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
275 global ratings
Great book for learning Affinity Photo!
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Great book for learning Affinity Photo!
I had struggled with Affinity Photo for the last nine months with mixed success. There are a ton of excellent videos and tutorials online, but all of them assume that you already know your way around Affinity Photo and are focused on one narrow aspect or feature of the software.If you're not 'there' yet, then definitely get this book. It gently walks you through the basics of the interface without putting you to sleep and provides hints as to why certain things are important. Then, once you're past that, the author does a great job of explaining some very useful editing functions and does it using multiple examples and methods, explaining where the different methods should be applied.The author does this with a set of example files you can download from the publisher's website so you can work along as the tutorials progress.After two days with this book, I took up a task I had been struggling with and within an hour had converted the first photo I've included into the second one (of course, the photo submission reversed them, but you get the picture!;-) . Brilliant! While the second one is not perfect and I still have a lot more to learn, this was a major win for me! Get it!
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Christian F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Essentials
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
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I have bought Affinity Photo a year ago but I never got familiar with it. I tried by just "applying" it but without result. I now read the book Essential Affinity Photo and it really gave the essentials in a straight forward way. I now feel familiar and ready to learn the rest with trial and error.
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William Sproul
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the book to use when you are just starting to learn AFFINITY
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021
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There are now about a half dozen books in print/kindle that purport to present to you a scheduled learning experience concerning the AFFINITY post processing program..
All of these books (I now have 4 of them) do a good job of explaining the specific areas of AFFINITY that the authors have chosen to write about. The practical problem is, " AFFINITY is a very large and complex program and no one author can comprehensively cover all it's aspects in one book in the necessary and appropriate detail usable to both the pros and the neophytes and all those in the middle". Every author, of necessity, writes about what he/she knows best; none of them 'knows it all'. I usually buy three books on a subject as a starter. I figure 'one of these people has to know at least a little about what I am interested in'. Each AFFINITY book needs to be graded to reflect the specific audience that it will best serve. In my opinion the books have been printed in reverse order over the years with the most complex (the pro version) being printed first and the least complex (the beginners best current choice) being printed last ( Essentials ... by Robin Whalley). This Essestials book sits beside my computer(s) as the go to first book to consult about a problem because it gives me a quick overview of what all the 'buttons' do, what a lot of the options are for solving various problems and it refreshes me on some of the details I will need to know in order to look up more advanced procedures in other books. Whalley will also return your emails if you want to correspond with him and ask questions; he gives you his email address in print. Do not let some of the other current reviewers distract you by giving negative comments concerning some/all available books because of the font style, cheap paper, cheap ink, cheap whatever, insufficient indexes, no table of contents, etc, etc, etc. You are buying these books about AFFINITY for their education value to you (and not for their artistic appeal to someone else or for their future monetary value on eBay). All my books are COVERED in margin pencil entries, yellow marker accents, references to other books and other useful information about the subject of the book. ALL my books have been added to, embellished and updated so as to reflect my interests and my approache to the subjects. Any printed book is only the starting point to education. Where you start is only a guide to where you need to go. Buy this book, you will be well rewarded for your choice. Also consider that ALL computer oriented books are out of date in three years hence anyway (unless you continually update them), so who cares about the color of the ink, no hard covers or the non-glossy paper. Another approach, which does not concern my opinion, is to - buy Whalley's book and several (or all) of the other books and sort it all out for yourself.
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Starks
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for anyone who is going from another editing software.
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019
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This book is great for anyone who is going from another editing software, such as Photoshop©, Lightroom©, ect. to Affinity Photo. Works well for beginners as well. For photographers, teaches everything that you need to start editing your photos.
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TomWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning Affinity Photo!
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2021
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I had struggled with Affinity Photo for the last nine months with mixed success. There are a ton of excellent videos and tutorials online, but all of them assume that you already know your way around Affinity Photo and are focused on one narrow aspect or feature of the software.
If you're not 'there' yet, then definitely get this book. It gently walks you through the basics of the interface without putting you to sleep and provides hints as to why certain things are important. Then, once you're past that, the author does a great job of explaining some very useful editing functions and does it using multiple examples and methods, explaining where the different methods should be applied.
The author does this with a set of example files you can download from the publisher's website so you can work along as the tutorials progress.
After two days with this book, I took up a task I had been struggling with and within an hour had converted the first photo I've included into the second one (of course, the photo submission reversed them, but you get the picture!;-) . Brilliant! While the second one is not perfect and I still have a lot more to learn, this was a major win for me! Get it!
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TomWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning Affinity Photo!
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2021
I had struggled with Affinity Photo for the last nine months with mixed success. There are a ton of excellent videos and tutorials online, but all of them assume that you already know your way around Affinity Photo and are focused on one narrow aspect or feature of the software.
If you're not 'there' yet, then definitely get this book. It gently walks you through the basics of the interface without putting you to sleep and provides hints as to why certain things are important. Then, once you're past that, the author does a great job of explaining some very useful editing functions and does it using multiple examples and methods, explaining where the different methods should be applied.
The author does this with a set of example files you can download from the publisher's website so you can work along as the tutorials progress.
After two days with this book, I took up a task I had been struggling with and within an hour had converted the first photo I've included into the second one (of course, the photo submission reversed them, but you get the picture!;-) . Brilliant! While the second one is not perfect and I still have a lot more to learn, this was a major win for me! Get it!
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Ray Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough & Straight Forward
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019
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I'm only 3/4's of the way thru this book but wanted to comment for anyone who may be considering this book. I'm fairly experienced processing film and digital images. The film was of course done in the darkroom, but for digital I've used a couple software systems prior to Affinity, and have used a variety of instructional materials including online courses, videos, and books. For me there have been several WOW! moments in this book where Robin's explanation clarifies use of a tool, or understanding of a concept, which has been an unclear or an obstacle in the past. I'll reread it again when I finish, but am already enjoying editing my own work with what I've learned. I've purchased one other of his books in the past so had great expectations for this one and I'm not disappointed. I think this will be an excellent reference as long as I use Affinity and wish I had purchased the paper copy rather than digital. Some of the illustrations are small and difficult to see clearly. There are some very good authors/teachers of these instructional books and videos, and I consider Robin Whalley to be one of the very best. So if you need help, or are just starting with Affinity, I suggest you read this book.
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Kilbarchan
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just For Affinity Owners
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019
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I bought a copy of Affinity Photo at one of those Super Sales the photo software companies put on from time to time. The license was about $35.00 but I balked at paying $50.00 for what should have been the user manual. I have followed Robin Whalley for some time both through his Nik publications and on his Lenscraft web site so I was very excited when he announced this book.

I had been using Affinity from time to time, but for the most part I was struggling to get any real results from the software. Within the first three chapters of this book the user interface was completely cleared up and I was well on my way to understanding adjustment layers. A number of other applications use adjustment layers and it is not a concept unique to Affinity. I believe the sections dealing with layers and brushes would apply to several other photo editors.

Bottom Line: Highly recommended for Affinity Photo owners and a good reference for those having difficulties with layers in other packages. If there is an advanced book I will be purchasing that.
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LC
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for basic photo editing using affinity photo
Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2021
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I bought this book to help with the transition from Lightroom to Affinity. The book is an excellent intro to both photo editing and Affinity photo. It works through how to process raw files into images, working with layers, working with layer masks, touching up photos, converting to black and white, etc. It's as much about how to edit as it is about how to edit in Affinity. Excellent learning tool.
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Her Indoors
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing 'How To' book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2021
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As a complete beginner to post processing I bought the Serif Workbook when I purchased Affinity Photo from Serif. However, I did not find it useful as it was styled more as a 'do this, do that' book with no explanation of why. I bought this book after finding Robert's You Tube channel. It is far better than the Serif book. It takes you right from the beginning explaining the different persona's but more importantly the author gives and explanation of why you are clicking on certain buttons. The exercises are easy to follow and I really liked the way the author explained things like opacity, hardness of brush etc. This book may only be a beginner book but having completed it I now have the confidence to post process my photo's with pleasing results. I think if I now go back to the Serif workbook I will have enough of an understanding of Affinity Photo to make sense of it. My only criticism of this book is that I found the screenshot reproductions difficult to see as they were quite small. However, a minor issue and I hope the author comes out with another book to take me to the next step in my post processing journey.
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Peter Keogh
5.0 out of 5 stars A great place to start
Reviewed in Australia on July 9, 2022
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Easy to read and understand - a great tool for the beginner or anyone wanting to launch into post processing software.
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Johanna Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars I have not had the chance to use it.
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2022
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This book looks more complex relying mostly on written instructions with very little space given to illustrating the point
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Arthur Paras
5.0 out of 5 stars Just the job
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2021
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I'm glad I've bought this manual. It's a lot better than what I thought it might be.
If you are new to affinity as I am you need to read this book page to page. When it says "Essential" it does mean it. Not only learning techniques but the program as well. It is written with care, as you read on you get to see the author put his heart on this little book. Lacking nothing of the matter. It is a perfect choise. One might say more could be added-I agree, but it wouldn't be an Essential book.. I Hope I see more of His books. It is a keeper...
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