#AFFINITY PHOTO BOOKS HOW TO#

If youвЂ™re a Photoshop veteran and have never touched the ВЈ48.99 Affinity Photo before (note thatвЂ™s ВЈ48.99 one-off, not fifty quid per month), then youвЂ™ve got everything here to help you find your way around this deeply impressive piece of software.

No previous knowledge is assumed, and the opening chapters of the book explain the peculiarities of the Affinity Photo interface, including the awkward вЂpersonasвЂ™ for вЂdevelopingвЂ™, вЂliquifyingвЂ™ and вЂexportingвЂ™ images, which I think Serif is going to need to rethink if it really wants to take the fight to Adobe.

#AFFINITY PHOTO BOOKS HOW TO#

The chapter on designing a book cover, for example, explains how to add fog to a scene, how to create an artificial torchlight beam, and how to add a texture to text вЂ“ techniques that are useful even if (like me) you have no intention of designing a WaterstoneвЂ™s bestseller.ДЄs youвЂ™d hope from a company with its own design software, the Affinity Photo Workbook is beautifully presented with clear step-by-step instructions and with plenty of space for accompanying screenshots, which zoom in on the precise settings you need to tweak.

Officially itвЂ™s described as вЂњ16 photo-editing projectsвЂќ, although thatвЂ™s rather under-selling whatвЂ™s on offer here, as each project is broken down into sub-tasks that are often useful in their own right. Published by AffinityвЂ™s makers, Serif, the Workbook is a hardbacked coffee-table sized tome of tutorials, showing you how to exploit the softwareвЂ™s many features.

Books like the Affinity Photo Workbook will help that no end. Affinity Photo is trying to become a vastly less expensive rival to Adobe Photoshop, whilst maintaining a high-end feel.

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