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Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

You're reading from   Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo Apply Affinity Photo fundamentals to your workflows to edit, enhance, and create great images

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560789
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jeremy Hazel Jeremy Hazel
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Foundational and Navigation Basics for Affinity Photo
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Vector versus Raster Art and Basics of the Interface FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Opening Your First Document 4. Chapter 3: Layer Fundamentals – The Heart of Affinity Photo 5. Chapter 4: The Basics of Masking in Affinity Photo 6. Chapter 5: Selection and How to Achieve It in Affinity Photo 7. Part 2: Fundamental Concepts Used to Create a Simple Edit
8. Chapter 6: Cropping and Composition 9. Chapter 7: Basics of Workflows and Balancing Dark and Light 10. Chapter 8: Blend Mode Fundamentals 11. Chapter 9: Basics of Stock Brushes in Affinity Photo 12. Chapter 10: Working with Color in Affinity Photo 13. Part 3 : The Practical Applications of Affinity Photo
14. Chapter 11: Compositing in Affinity Photo 15. Chapter 12: Photo Restoration and Portrait Retouching in Affinity Photo 16. Chapter 13: Advanced Color Concepts and Grading 17. Chapter 14: Destructive Filters and Tools in Affinity Photo 18. Chapter 15: Creative Effects and Specialty Brushes in Affinity Photo 19. Part 4: Finishing Your Edit and Building Your Own Artistic Palette
20. Chapter 16: Working with Text and Shapes in Affinity Photo 21. Chapter 17: Editing in Other Personas in Affinity Photo 22. Chapter 18: Exporting and Artist Efficiency Tips 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Resizing the document you just created

Now that you have an image, either bringing in or creating and placing it, you are eventually going to want to resize it, and so we have to explore the basic terms and how exactly we do this. We are going to cover the difference between the document and the canvas, and how to adjust the parameters of the image during editing.

The options for resizing the project are under the Document option in the menu (see Figure 2.9):

Figure 2.9 – Resizing the document using the Document menu

Figure 2.9 – Resizing the document using the Document menu

The document is the actual image you are working with, but much like you can place a document on a Matte, the Matte can be thought of as the canvas. So, if you want to adjust the size of the image without changing the size of the canvas, select Resize document….

When you want to change the document size

When you go to change the document size, this window pops up (see Figure 2.10):

Figure 2.10 – Options for resizing including “aspect ratio lock”

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