Affinity Photo Videos & Other Useful Resources
If this is your first time, watch the videos in order.
Here is some additional viewing specifically for Affinity Photo (AP). We will start right back at the basics of AP:
- Affinity Photo – UI Overview
- Affinity Photo – Light UI
- Affinity Photo – New Document with Templates
- Affinity Photo – Open and save
- Affinity Photo Tutorial 1: Making Sense of Affinity Photo Desktop
- Affinity Photo Tutorial 2: Introducing the Develop Persona
You can get the Raw Image provided by Robin Whalley, to follow along with his tutorials, at the following link: https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=126D69371750C703&resid=126D69371750C703%2141554&authkey=ANWc_Qg70krjTko NOTE: this is a large file (50MB)
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 1: A First Look
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 2: Magic Photo Fix
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 3: A Little Bit About Colour
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 4: Moving and Zooming Around
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 5: Brightness and Contrast
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 6: A Bit More About Colour
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 7: Better Colours Using ‘Vibrance’
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 8: Adjusting the White Balance
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 9: Fixing Dullness and Darkness using Levels
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 10: About Brushes and the Paintbrush
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 11: Erasing Things Using The Inpainting Brush
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 12: Erasing Things with the Clone Brush
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 13: Understanding and Using Selection – 5:27
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 14: Easily Using the Selection Brush – 5:51
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 15: Selecting the Sky with ‘Refine’ – 5:15
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 16: Blurring the Background – 5:20
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 17: How to Fix a ‘Bitty’ Sky – 5:20
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 18: Brightening Up a Dull City Landscape – 5:35
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 19: Sharpening with ‘Unsharp Mask’ – 4:39
- Layer Basics 1 in Affinity Photo – 5:00
- Layers Basic 2: Erase brush and Popping with Affinity Photo – 4:39
- Layers Basics 3: Opacity and Gradients, with Affinity Photo – 6:30
- Layers Basics 4: Adjustment Layers with Affinity Photo – 6:42
- Layer Basics 5: Fill Layers with Affinity Photo – 2:53
Start The Triage Process
- Create your Smart Collection In Adobe Bridge called “Portfolio Editing Stage 1”
- Make sure you top most Photography folder is added to Favourites
- Pick that as the starting folder for your Smart Collection
- Rule 1 – Label equals Yellow
- Rule 2 – Rating equals one star
- Match – If all criteria are met
- Tick – include all subfolders
- Tick – Include non-indexed files
Add the images from Last nights photo critique – give each image 1 star (Ctrl (PC) Cmd (mac) + 1 | and set the colour label to Yellow – (Ctrl (PC) Cmd (mac) + 7
Start looking through your images, identify those you think will make a club photography photo and give them 1 star and set the label to Yellow.
- Layers Basics 6: Groups, with Affinity Photo – 5:56
- Layers Basics 7: Child Layers, with Affinity Photo – 6:01
- Layers Basics 8: Duplicating and Inverting – 5:14
- Layer Basics 9: Positions and Priorities – 5:35
- Masking Basics 1: How Masks Work – 9:42
- Masking Basics 2: Adjustment Layer Masking – 4:23
- Mask Basics 3: Extending a Mask with Selection – 3:37
- Converting a Selection to a Mask in Affinity Photo – 4:35
- Converting a Mask to a Selection in Affinity Photo – 1:57
- Converting a Mask to a Pixel Layer in Affinity Photo – 1:52
- Converting a Layer to a Mask in Affinity Photo – 4:18
- Selection with the Flood Select Tool (magic wand) in Affinity Photo – 4:51
- How to Create Perfect Selections in Affinity Photo – 10:20
- What is Alpha in Affinity Photo? – 6:48
- What is ‘Preserve Alpha’ in Affinity Photo? – 5:33
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 21: Eliminating Noise With ‘Denoise’ Filter – 3:59
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 22: Four Handy Brushes For Detail Work – 6:08
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 23: Introducing the Curves Adjustment – 5:38
- Absolute Beginner’s Course in Affinity Photo: Episode 24: How to Use the ‘HSL’ Adjustment – 4:23
- Swatches Basics 1 in Affinity Photo (Palettes, Recent Colours and ‘TBGW’) – 5:51
- Swatches Basics 2: Creating Palettes in Affinity Photo – 6:14
- Using Swatches in Affinity Photo to Create and Save Gradients – 5:32
- Free! 11 Neutral Density (ND) Filters in Affinity Photo Palette – 6:04
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- Here’s where to download the ND palette: https://changingminds.org/disciplines…
- · Affinity Photo – Panoramas – 3:55
- Filters (Affinity Photo) – 3:53
- Clarity (Affinity Photo) – 2:59
- Radial Blur (Affinity Photo) – 1:57
- Zoom Blur (Affinity Photo) – 4:27
- Detecting (and Adjusting) Edges with Blur (using Affinity Photo) – 6:31
- Understanding Diffuse Glow (and using it for Dodging) using Affinity Photo – 6:12
- Automatic Dodge and Burn with Double Diffuse Glow (using Affinity Photo} – 5:38
- Unselective Darkening with Diffuse Glow (using Affinity Photo) – 3:04
Affinity Photo for iPad – A link to Official Affinity training tutorials for Affinity on the iPad