Affinity Photo for Desktop is a popular, next-generation photo editing platform for photographers.
Unfortunately, most busy photographers don’t have the time to learn what every button, option, and slider in Affinity does, which means they end up wasting precious time and not getting the results they deserve from this powerful editing software.
In this Introduction to Affinity Photo Course, you’ll master all the essential panels, menus, toolbars, and advanced features that make photo editing a breeze.
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Affinity Photo is a popular alternative to Photoshop and Lightroom. It comes in desktop and app form too, meaning you can edit at home and on the go.
If you’re a beginner to photo editing we’ll guide you step-by-step over 5 time-saving lessons led by iPhotography Tutor and Affinity expert, Stephen.
By the end of this Affinity Photo course, you’ll know and understand all of the main features of this powerful software so that you can use it quickly and effectively, without the steep learning curve.
By first understanding where to find all the essential tools for photo editing, you’ll be building the best foundations on which to progress your photography.
Learn what Affinity Photo’s persona modules offer, how to edit RAW files, make basic and advanced adjustments, and how to export your photos for sharing.
Hi, I’m Stephen your Affinity Photo Course tutor! I love editing – I’ve been doing it for over 15 years!
Since discovering Affinity Photo, like many photographers, I’ve found it to be a terrific rival to Photoshop and Lightroom. It offers photographers a faster (but equally powerful) suite to get your pictures looking amazing.
I’m super excited to show you Affinity Photo for Desktop and to help you build a strong foundational knowledge of the tools, buttons and sliders, so that you don’t have to go through the lengthy learning curve.
Once you’ve completed this course you’ll be an expert in Affinity Photo and your photo editing skills will know no boundaries.
In Module One, we start with the basics:
– Introduction to the Affinity Photo workspace
– The 3 main areas of tools you’ll use regularly
– How to navigate around the workspace
In Module Two, we’ll move on to the next step;
– Looking at how to make selections
– The power of the crop tool
– Using brushes to mask and paint
In Module 3 we’ll take a deeper dive into lots of popular tools in the menu bar
– How to save/export your photos and creating snapshots
– Where to locate filters and add text to your photos
– How to cut, copy, paste and stack multiple images together
During Module 4, we’ll turn our attention to using panels to improve your workflow.
– Adding, arranging and using adjustment layers
– Making changes to colour, saturation, brightness, contrast, white balance, LUTs and presets
– How to use Affinity Photo’s Styles, Effects and Stock image options
In our last module, we’ll look at what Affinity Photos 5 Persona options are (and what they do)
– Photo Persona
– Liquify & Develop Persona
– Tone Mapping & Export Persona
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You can spend a lifetime in frustration, battling with random YouTube videos trying to learn how Affinity Photo works. Don’t jump around watching unrelated videos and following different teachers.
Instead, in less than 2 hours you can have it all broken down, laid out clearly and cleanly and handed to you on a plate by an experienced instructor, with 24/7 lifetime access.
The perfect introduction course for photographers learning Affinity Photo and mastering photo editing.
Understand how to use all the essential tools photographers need to make basic, advanced and creative adjustments to images.
Keep personal notes of everything you learn in each module. You can download them and read offline anytime.
Lifetime access to our incredible private feedback gallery. Upload your edits and get feedback from fellow students and tutors.
We offer a full 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are at all unhappy with the Affinity Photo course, for any reason, just let us know and we’ll issue a full refund.
Yes! This is exactly what this short course is designed for. We won’t spend time creating elaborate edits during these lessons. Instead we focus attention on learning the software.
We believe that once you know your tools you’re better equipped to use them in various ways. You won’t need any prior experience or knowledge with Affinity Photo to start this course. But by the end you’ll be an expert!
Total beginners! We’ve designed this course to be accessible and simple to follow.
If you’ve just purchased Affinity Photo then this is the first place to start. You can have the software open and follow along to the tutorials to try out all the tools and features we cover.
Yes! To make it easier to follow along with this course it makes the most sense to have already purchased a copy of Affinity Photo for Desktop.
This software is a one-off payment which can be purchased from here.
No, this course is not compatible with Affinity Photo for iPad – this Introduction to Affinity for Desktop course is for the desktop version only (PC & Mac).
However, our Edit With Apps course covers Affinity Photo for iPad, along with several other incredible editing apps.
This course is spread over 5 individual lessons. It’s been designed to be low-impact and time-saving.
These 5 lessons combined should take you just under 2 hours to complete. This time scale is a guideline and doesn’t take into consideration if you are editing your photos alongside the tutorial and need more time to complete the steps.