Buy and Download - Lynda.com Steve Caplin Affinity Photo Essential Training

2016
Lynda
Steve Caplin
3:31
English

Affinity Photo is a powerful photo post-processing program for the Mac platform, combining raw conversion, photo retouching and enhancement, and compositing. In this course, Steve Caplin explores all of Affinity Photo's essential features. Each tutorial helps unlock another of Affinity Photo's capabilities, from its raw conversion and editing controls to its advanced selection tools, image enhancement features, filters and special effects, and compositing features. Whether you want to change the look of a photograph, scale and crop images, or create complex photomontages, each adjustment is completely nondestructive, allowing you to retain quality and incorporate additional effects as you go. To help Photoshop users who may be considering Affinity Photo, Steve also compares and contrasts the two applications.

Introduction
Welcome
Affinity Photo vs. Photoshop
1. Using the Raw Controls
Exposure, Contrast, and Clarity
Applying lens correction
Removing chromatic aberration and fringing
Adjusting tones with Curves and Split Toning
Sharpening and noise reduction
Creating local enhancement with overlays
Using the Blemish Removal tool
Developing the image
2. Using Selection Tools
Using the Freehand Selection tool
Using the Rectangular Marquee tool
Adding and subtracting selections
Modifying selections with Quick Mask mode
Working with selections
Using the Flood Select tool
Round selections with Elliptical Marquee
Expanding and outlining selections
Making automatic selections by tone and color
Making a layer mask
3. Advanced Selection Tools
Using the Selection Brush
Viewing selections in Refine Selection
Making global adjustments
Painting adjustments in Refine Selection
Saving selection results
4. Using Adjustments
Using Levels to warm an image
Adjusting shadows and highlights
Localized adjustments using Curves
Desaturating using Selective Color
Painting selections on adjustments
Using the Black & White adjustment
Enhance color images with Black & White
Apply adjustments to preselected areas
Turning adjustment layers on and off
5. Working with Filters
Applying standard filters
Creating live filter layers
Using the Lighting filter
Changing the layer mode
Adding depth of field blur
Adding the Shadows / Highlights filter
Adding the Detect Edges filter
6. Creating Photomontages
Copying and pasting
Transforming layers
Masking hair
Creating an "out of bounds" effect
Mask a sitting figure to fit behind a desk
Adding plasma glow
Reducing the size of a plasma ball
Darkening the screen
Adding lighting
Adding wall shadow
7. Distortion and Special Effects
Distorting with the Liquify Persona
Distorting with the Perspective tool
Distorting with Mesh Warp
Merging images with stacks
8. Text and Graphics
Working with type
Working with basic graphics
Creating pie charts
Customizing shapes
Customizing layer effects
9. Exporting Images
Exporting photographic images
Exporting images with transparency
Using the Export Persona
Conclusion
Goodbye

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