Editing in Other Personas in Affinity Photo

So far in this book, we have been working completely in what is called the Photo persona, but Affinity has more personas that we can work with to accomplish our photo editing goals. In this chapter, we will explore three additional personas and how we can leverage them to build one last building block on the very solid foundation we have established so far. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

• The Develop persona – also known as editing in RAW
• The Liquify persona – a holdover that was replaced in a later version of V1 by the non-destructive option for a Liquify Distort Live filter
• The Tone Mapping persona – an editing space that allows us to adjust High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, but also create amazing effects

While we will be covering some of these in a great deal of depth (such as the Develop persona), we will not spend much time on others, such as the Liquify persona,...