Download or read book Essential Affinity Photo written by Robin Whalley and published by Robin Whalley. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quickly learn Affinity Photo image editing 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.
Download or read book Affinity Designer Workbook written by Affinity Team and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up and Running with Affinity Designer written by Kevin House and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add Affinity Designer to your creative skillset while creating innovative designs and illustrations, building a solid foundation for your future Key Features Understand Affinity Designer's interface and setup, discover its capabilities, and develop an efficient workflow Harness the power of an easy and flexible vector and pixel workflow in one application Learn practical skills and gain the confidence to power your own creative projects Book DescriptionAffinity Designer is a widely adopted creative application, and in a reasonably short space of time, it has become a leading design and illustration application. Affinity Designer, along with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, is part of a suite of award-winning creative software applications developed by Serif Europe. Built on the latest technologies, which make it fast and smooth, Affinity Designer is quickly becoming the go-to professional creative application for vector drawing and pixel-based painting. Up and Running with Affinity Designer is a comprehensive hands-on guide to the Affinity Designer software. Whether you're new to the creative industry, a seasoned professional looking for a proven alternative, or an enthusiastic hobbyist, this book will help you get up to speed in no time. You’ll learn how to create documents and explore workflow best practices while working through practical exercises using the knowledge and skills developed in each chapter to solidify your understanding of the fundamentals. Finally, you’ll bring it all together with real-world practical applications by building a fun logo and professional illustration, forming a base for in-depth exploration in your own projects. By the end of this Affinity Designer book, you'll have gained the knowledge and confidence to use Affinity Designer as part of your creative toolset.What you will learn Explore the interface and unique UX characteristics of Affinity Designer Discover features that allow you to manipulate and transform objects Apply color, shading, and effects to create unique compositions Employ layers to organize and simplify complex projects Use grids, guides, and snapping features as design aids Adapt to Affinity Designer s custom workspaces and keyboard shortcuts Explore the workflow and design best practices for more predictable and successful outcomes Identify potential stumbling blocks in your design process and learn how to avoid them Who this book is forThis Affinity Designer book is for graphic designers, artists, illustrators, and hobbyists. Anyone curious about Affinity Designer's unique toolset and vector and pixel workflows or looking for cost-effective alternatives to the Adobe suite will find this book useful. Experience in working with other similar tools will be helpful, but not necessary.
Download or read book The Affinity Photo Manual written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for beginner users of Affinity Photo software, presents newly revised and updated first 10 Affinity Photo skills beginners want to learn and 20 new step-by-step lessons on photograph editing techniques using the Affinity Photo software.
Download or read book Book Design Made Simple written by Fiona Raven and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Design Made Simple gives DIY authors, small presses, and graphic designers--novices and experts alike--the power to design their own books. It's the first comprehensive book of its kind, explaining every step from installing Adobe(R) InDesign(R) right through to sending the files to press. For those who want to design their own books but have little idea how to proceed, Book Design Made Simple is a semester of book design instruction plus a publishing class rolled into one. Let two experts guide you through the process with easy step-by-step instructions, resulting in a professional-looking top-quality book
Download or read book Affinity Photo for IPad written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look for our newest Updated Version of this Affinity Photo for iPad. Same cover, different subtitle.The Affinity Photo for iPad edition is the perfect beginners guide for all new users of this amazing Affinity Photo software. In this book, you will learn the first 10 skills all beginners should know before learning how to master this amazing product. All lessons have been done in simple to follow steps with high quality screenshots to visually guide you on your path of self-learning. We hope you like our book as much as we had fun creating it.If you want to learn how to use your Affinity Photo for iPad software fast and well, then this guidebook is perfect for you. We've even included at the end of the book an extra bonus for people who are interested in creating their own eBooks. ATTENTION: If you have purchased this book, we would like to offer you two (2) Affinity Photo for Desktop Tutorials for free. Simply email us at: [email protected] and tell us which two of the 10 tutorials (below) you'd like and we'll send it to you in PDF format. We periodically offer free ebooks and other books from our publishing company. We respect your privacy and will remove your email from the list if you ask us. We promise to do it immediately.Here is the list of the ebooks we are offering (pls be able to provide proof of purchase): How to Change the Color of Anything How to Make a Vignette How to Make YouTube Thumbnails How to Create a Paint Splatter Effect .How to Make a Text Portrait How to make a Meme .The Develop Persona How to Clone Yourself Pop Out and 3D Effect How to Colorize Black and White Images Please check out our other titles: Affinity Photo Singles for Desktop: Splatter Effect Affinity Photo Singles for iPad: Splash Effect Affinity Designer - First 10 Skills Designer Singles: How to Create a Mandala Designer Singles: How to Create a Beautiful Floral Design Soon to be in print: Gimp - First 10 Skills Adobe Photoshop - First 10 Skills Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 - First 10 Skills & many more... Copyright information: All images and content have been approved for us to use. Logos and depictions of the Serif Affinity Photo UI are copyright of Serif (Europe) Ltd., but are not endorsed or support by Serif Ltd. Noteable competitors: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Creative Suite Adobe InDesign Pixelmator Paint.net Adobe Lightroom Aviary Photo Editor PixlrAutodesk Paintshop Pro Photoshop Elements, Acorn 4, Gimp Aperture Photoshop Touch Snapseed BeFunky Fotor Fotoflexer, Ppicasa ACDSeee Pro 8 PicMonkey Pic Monkey SumoPaint Ribbet Apple Photo Foto
Download or read book Smart Phone Smart Photography written by Jo Bradford and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a genuinely useful guide to the more technical side of phone shooting, including editing with popular apps like Snapseed. Jo Bradford makes the most of the creative possibilities of modern smartphone cameras, and her tips on improving exposure and ensuring decent prints are really useful." Awarded 5 stars by Amateur Photographer Maximize your potential to get the shots you want with this guide to photography for both Apple and Android phones. There's a saying that the best camera for the job is the one you have with you when an opportunity arises. Thanks to the boom in camera-phone technology, today we're lucky enough to have a camera to hand to capture all those incredible moments. But are you making the most of that powerful tool in your pocket? Do the photos you have taken tend to be blurry, or look nothing like what you're seeing? If you want to shoot incredible images with your phone, buy Smart Phone, Smart Photography. Covering simple techniques that will allow you to get the image that you see every single time, you will soon be telling your camera what to do with confidence. Start with The Big Picture and get to know your camera phone and the rules behind taking the perfect shot. The next chapter, Taking Great Pictures, explains the key disciplines of photography – portrait, abstraction, macro, still life and plenty more. Finally, the Post-production chapter demonstrates how to use apps to edit and enhance your images and create incredible prints for display.
Download or read book Practical Guide to Affinity Designer written by Dawid Tuminski and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever wanted to learn a piece of design software, but at the end of the learning process you were left with a thought in your head, like "Ok, so what do I do now?", you might have just found a solution to that problem. Because this book will help you in learning Affinity Designer and having something to show for it at the end of the learning process.It was designed to be as practical as possible. Inside you will find●10 flat icon projects designed and created using solely Affinity Designer●The most important tools and options to get you started with the software as fast as possible●Tens of useful tricks and tips to speed up your design workflowAt the end of the book you will hopefully be able to use Affinity Designer absolutely independently. We won't be focusing on each and every little aspect about each and every tool in Designer. Instead, you will learn how to look at the tools, how they think and how to benefit from what they offer.
Download or read book Affinity Photo Workbook for IPad Beginner s Guide written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affinity Photo continues to be the fastest-growing photo editor on the market today. Beginners and professional photo editors love its ease-of-use and its low one-time cost, and it's gotten better than ever. Enter Affinity Photo for iPad - Beginner's Guide. The perfect companion to this award-winning software. This step-by-step training manual will take you from a total beginner to an experienced user. We take complex ideas and make them simple using our unique style of teaching. It is a true beginners training manual. We start the book with the first 10 skills beginners need to know how to use in order to get a grasp of the software. Then, we add 20 step-by-step lessons to teach you cool effects and to grow your working knowledge. Our easy-to-follow teaching style will guide you through each lesson with ease. The first ten skills beginners need to know How Affinity Photo is Designed for Use How to Crop Images How to Remove Objects / Imperfections from a Photo How to Make Selections How to Use the Adjustment Layers How to Use Masks How to Add Text to an Image How to Change the Background of a Photo How to Create a Vignette - Three Methods How to Save, Export & Share Your Work 20 Step-by-Step Lessons How to Create & Use LUTs How to Change the Color of Anything How to Make Blurred Backgrounds How to Create a Frame Around a Photo How to Swap Backgrounds How to Create a Color Splash Effect How to Increase Lighting Naturally How to Apply a Gradient Effect How to Apply a Nashville Filter How to Create a Glitch Effect How to Place Text Behind Your Subject How to Create a Vintage Effect How to Increase Resolution How to Brighten a Portrait How to Create a Pencil Sketch Effect How to Create a Double Exposure Effect How to Create Talking Guinea Pigs How to Create a Light Leak Effect How to Sharpen Portraits How to Create a High-Speed Effect Check out the reviews of our current three Affinity Photo books - see what others have said about our books: The Affinity Photo Manual The Affinity Photo Manual II The Affinity Photo Guidebook For your convenience we created a folder with all of the images you'll use in this book. Simply contact us at [email protected] and we'll send it to you. We've also included hyperlinks to the images used at the beginning of every lesson. Sometimes these links change, so contact us and we'll send you our folder within 24 hours.
Download or read book Mastering Atmosphere and Mood in Watercolor written by Joseph Zbukvic and published by International Artist Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The watercolor clock shows artists how to manipulate watercolor materials for dazzling, atmospheric effects.
Download or read book The Sock Knitter s Handbook written by Beth Parrott and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love knitting socks but sometimes hit a snag? Carry this handy answer book in your knitting bag! Well-known experts Charlene Schurch and Beth Parrott demystify all aspects of sock knitting. Find clear instructions for both toe-up and cuff-down sock knitting Learn multiple techniques for knitting: casting on and binding off, working heels and toes, making size adjustments, and more Browse a stitch dictionary of favorite texture patterns; find options for creating your own unique socks
Download or read book The Deep sky Imaging Primer written by Charles Bracken and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that taught thousands of people about astrophotography has been completely revised and updated in this second edition. It covers everything you need to know to capture stunning images of deep-sky objects with a DSLR or CCD camera: The fundamental concepts of imaging and their impact on the final image How to pick a telescope and camera How to get set up and take the images Where and when to find the best objects in the night sky How to process images using Adobe Photoshop(R) and PixInsight(R) Start-to-finish examples of image processing Full-color with over 300 illustrations.
Download or read book Affinity Photo for IPad written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Affinity Photo for iPad (Black & White) edition is the perfect beginners guide for all new users of this amazing Affinity Photo software. All lessons have been done in simple to follow steps with high quality screenshots to visually guide you on your path of self-learning. We hope you like our book as much as we had fun creating it. If you want to learn how to use your Affinity Photo for iPad software fast and well, then this guidebook is perfect for you. We've even included at the end of the book an extra bonus for people who are interested in creating their own eBooks. To be able to offer a lower sales price, we are offering this book in BLACK & WHITE The B&W pages are of excellent quality. We will be offering a slighly more expensive, full color version soon. Please check out our other titles: Affinity Photo Beginners Guide (for Desktop): First 10 Skills Affinity Photo Singles: Paint Splatter Effect Affinity Photo Singles: Color Splash Effect ...many more Affinity Photo Singles coming out every month. Copyright information: All images and content have been approved for us to use. Logos and depictions of the Serif Affinity Photo UI are copyright of Serif (Europe) Ltd. Secondly, we have been given permission to use data and images from Affinity Revolution. Noteable competitors: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Creative Suite Adobe InDesign Pixelmator Paint.net Adobe Lightroom Aviary Photo Editor Pixlr Autodesk Paintshop Pro Photoshop Elements, Acorn 4, Gimp Aperture Photoshop Touch Snapseed BeFunky Fotor Fotoflexer, Ppicasa ACDSeee Pro 8 PicMonkey Pic Monkey SumoPaint Ribbet
Download or read book Inside PixInsight written by Warren A. Keller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Warren Keller reveals the secrets of astro-image processing software PixInsight in a practical and easy to follow manner, allowing the reader to produce stunning astrophotographs from even mediocre data. As the first comprehensive post-processing platform to be created by astro-imagers for astro-imagers, it has for many, replaced the generic graphics editors as the software of choice. With clear instructions from Keller, astrophotographers can get the most from its tools to create amazing images. Capable of complex post-processing routines, PixInsight is also an advanced pre-processing software, through which astrophotographers calibrate and stack their exposures into completed master files. Although it is extremely powerful, PixInsight has been inadequately documented in print--until now. With screenshots to help illustrate the process, it is a vital guide.
Download or read book Affinity Photo for IPad written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the possibilities for professional photo editing on mobile devices using Affinity Photo for the iPad.
Download or read book Middleshade Road written by Matt Gemmell and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PALE HOUSE HAS AWOKEN When Dair Lewis receives a call telling him of his estranged mother's death, he must travel back to his childhood home in the far north of Scotland, the sprawling and shadowy Pale House. Drawn into a mystery regarding the circumstances of her passing, Lewis begins to suspect that something is terribly wrong with the house. A secret from the years after he left, and traumatic experiences he'd repressed from earlier in his life, made his former home a place of dread for him - and now the past has come alive within its walls. As Lewis digs deeper, the house calls out to a damaged and twisted figure bent on murder, drawing a monster into its shifting, labyrinthine expanse. Trapped in a dark and living museum of his own worst memories, Lewis must fight to stay alive long enough to discover the truth about the house at the end of Middleshade Road.
Download or read book Total Babesville written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the characters that make up Los Angeles with over 30 fabulous illustrated coloring pages