What is a workflow?

I like to think about a workflow as a culinary activity. There may have been a certain dish your mother or father made and if they made it many times, hopefully, it tasted similar and consistent each time. However, down the street, your neighbor might make a similar dish and achieve an acceptable result but utilize a completely different recipe. This is how you need to think of workflows. A workflow is simply a pre-defined series of steps that you take to accomplish an output or an image.

Now, as I mentioned earlier in this book, the question of what is the best workflow? always comes up, and there is no right answer because there are endless ways of working in Affinity Photo. I guarantee you that five editors have developed five different ways to do the same sort of edit… remember, it is the result that counts.

As an example, when I do a simple edit that does not require multiple subjects, I create an overview of the workflow. This is a great one for...