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Beginner to Wow - Affinity Photo Version 2
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4 hours 50 minutes 
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About Beginner to Wow - Affinity Photo Version 2
Welcome and Introduction
Tools & Studios
Pixels & Megapixels
Essentials of a Good Image - Introduction
Crop & Straighten Photos
Understanding Layers
Saving with Layers
Introducing Adjustment Layers
What are Levels & How to Use Them
More Levels & Output Levels
Highlights to Affect the Darker & Lighter Areas
Change Contrast with Curves
Correct the image Color with Color Balance
Black & White Conversion
Recolor to Sepia or Cyanotype
Split Tone
B13 Hue, Saturation & Luminosity
Sharpen Your Image to Make It Pop
Project: Correct the Luminosity
Project: Correct Color & Add Warmth
Introduction to Brush Tools
C1 The Paint brush essentials
More Brush Options & Shortcuts
Stabilise the Brush for Smooth Lines
Symmetry
Color Blend Mode
The Undo Brush Tool
The History Panel with the Undo Brush
The Clone Tool to Copy Parts of Your Image
Healing Brush
Heal on new Layer
Blemish Removal Tool
Dodge Burn & Sponge to Adjust Lighting on Image
Remove Coffee Stains
Levels & the Burn Tool
Painting in the Color on a New Layer
Sample Skin Tones from an Image
Add New Layers for all Parts of the Image
Introduction to Selections
What are Selections & How to Use Them
Freehand Selection with the Magnet
Color Selected Area on a New Layer with Primary or Secondary Color
Flood Select Tool or Magic Wand Tolerance
What are Contiguous & Anti-alias
Selection Brush & Copy to New Document
Using Matte Edges in Refine
Getting Good Hair Cutouts with the Refine Brush
Using Foreground and Background to Refine the Selection
Place the Images & Cut Out with a Mask
Fixing Masking Issues
Place Person, Cutout & Refine
Add Some Shadows for Realism
Colorize the Hat & Graphics Tablet Tips
Add an Effect from the FX Options
Add Some Artistic Text & Use Rotate & Flipping
Save & Export for Web
Introduction to Layers
The important Fundamentals of Layers
Placing & Selecting
Place Image & Group Adjustments
Add Artistic Text & Save
Introduction to Masks
How Masks Work With Black & White
Masking an Adjustment Layer With a Brush
Masks from Selections
More Mask Options
Multiple Masks on a Layer With a Group
Create a New Poster Size Page
Place Images & Blend With Masks
Adjustment Layers to Affect Single Layers
Add Logo & Text
Well Done & Thank You
What You Will Learn?
- Learn to Edit and Retouch Your Images and Make them come to Life in This Comprehensive Affinity Photo V2 Course..
- Hi - I'm Tim and I'm a designer and photographer as well as a software trainer who's been working in the industry for over 20 years. Companies I've trained include, BBC, Disney, The Times Newspaper, NHS, Deutschebank as well as numerous others. I've also spent many years as a lecturer to honors degree students in photography and graphic design..
- This course is an introduction to Affinity Photo with tutorials and step-by-step projects, starting right from the beginning for complete beginners. You do not have to have any photo editing experience at all..
- Together we will look at a specific set of tools and techniques. Then I will give you some projects to complete to reinforce your knowledge..
- All the content can be adapted for both print or web..
- You will learn the basics of Affinity Photo and solidify your knowledge by creating multi-image compositions, retouching old and new images, color-correcting images, working with non-destructive adjustment layers as well as selections..
- This course is for anyone new to Affinity Photo, whether you have used any other editing software like Photoshop or not. All you need is a copy of Affinity Photo on computer / laptop..
- During the videos there will also be key phrases that appear to help you remember tools, shortcuts and techniques..
- At the end of this course you will have good understanding of the basics of Affinity Photo and will be able to create simple yet eye-catching and exciting images, retouch and recolor photos and work in a non-destructive way..
- All the exercise files come from the Royalty Free websites Unsplash and Pixabay..
- Music by Bensound..