Affinity Photo for iPad - Beginner's Guide A Step-by-Step Training Manual

441 Pages·2021·28.93 MB·english

by  Frank Walters

Affinity Photo for iPad
- Beginner's Guide
A Step-by-Step Training Manual
Frank Walters
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my four children - Gabriel, Kristian, Linnea,
Sophia.
This last year has been tough. We're living through a global pandemic while
at the same time your parents are going through a long separation. Rough
stuff for everyone. I am very thankful that each one of you knows I love you
and you understand that what's going on between me and mom is no fault of
yours. During the last year, you've put up with me spending very many hours
a week working on the last couple of books for our publishing company. I
work from home and so I am blessed to always be here for you. Finally, dad's
done!
For me, this last year has been very hard. I struggled with borderline
depression and was always fatigued. Things are getting better and I'm glad
for that.
I hope this book is remembered by you as my tribute to my love for each of
you. I will always be here for you regardless of the circumstances and my
door will be 'always open' to you and your siblings. I love you each so much.
Yours forever,
Papi
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We are a self-publishing company employing several authors. We take our
books very seriously and try our very best to publish high-quality books that
deliver the expected results we advertise in our book descriptions. If there is
ever an issue with syntax, content or book layout, please don't hesitate to
contact us before you leave negative comments. We promise we will address
your concerns as quickly as we can. Software develops quickly and when we
publish our books, we know in a short time there will be new updates. We
promise to try to keep up with updates in all of our books as the software
updates.
For permissions, questions or to submit your own artwork, contact us at
[email protected]
ISBN: 979-8454-8245-63
Who is the book for?
This book is for new users and beginners of Affinity Photo for iPad. The iPad
version is very much different from the desktop version. So, if you are an
experienced desktop user, then book is also for you. But, if you consider
yourself advanced, then perhaps this book will probably be too basic for you.
How is the book structured?
We'll guide you through the first 10 steps new users want to learn how to use
when starting out with Affinity Photo for iPad. Then, we'll continue teaching
you how to do 20 photo editing techniques in our unique step-by-step
method.
What makes our teaching style unique?
We try to boil every step down to its most basic form so that complicated
steps become simple. We pride ourselves in trying to take a complex effect
and make it accessible to anyone. We also use our own method of italicizing
action words and bolding objective words. This makes it very clear what you
should do.
For example: Press the Refine button and then press OK.

The images in this book
We only use license-free images we find on Pixabay, Unsplash, and Pexels.
You can either email us and we'll send you all of the images used in this book
in an email attachment, or you can click on their hyperlinks at the beginning
of each lesson. Just know that sometimes the hyperlinks don't work. We
promise to reply to all emails within 24 hours.
A note about redundancy
Learning new skills take a lot of repetition. We know this, so we structured
this book with lots of the same ideas and shortcuts. This is done so you learn
as fast as possible. We consider we've done our job if when you are done
going through this book, you're able to retain most of the main features of this
software.
Table of Contents
Basics 1 - How Affinity Photo is Designed for Use
Basics 2 – How to Crop Images
Basics 3 – How to Remove Objects / Imperfections from a Photo
Basics 4 - How to Make Selections
Basics 5 - How to Use the Adjustment Layers
Basics 6 – How to Use Masks
Basics 7 – How to Add Text to an Image
Basics 8 - How to Change the Background of a Photo
Basics 9 - How to Create a Vignette - Three Methods
Basics 10 - How to Save, Export and Share Your Work
Lesson 1: How to Create & Use LUTs
Lesson 2: How to Change the Color of Anything
Lesson 3: How to Make Blurred Backgrounds
Lesson 4: How to Create a Single & Double Frame Around a Photo
Lesson 5: How to Swap Backgrounds
Lesson 6: How to Create a Color Splash Effect
Lesson 7: How to Increase Lighting Naturally
Lesson 8: How to Apply a Gradient Effect
Lesson 9: How to Apply a Nashville Filter to an Image
Lesson 10: How to Create a Glitch Effect
Lesson 11: How to Place Text Behind Your Subjects
Lesson 12: How to Create a Vintage Effect
Lesson 13: How to Increase Resolution
Lesson 14: How to Brighten a Portrait
Lesson 15: How to Create a Pencil Sketch Effect
Lesson 16: How to Create a Double Exposure Effect
Lesson 17: How to Create Talking Guinea Pigs
Lesson 18: How to Create a Light Leak Effect
Lesson 19: How to Sharpen Portraits
Lesson 20: How to Create a High-Speed Effect
Basics 1 - How Affinity Photo is Designed for Use
Affinity Photo for iPad is a unique user experience. We prefer the desktop
version, but fr on-the-go work, we love working with the iPad. Thankfully,
the creators made using this excellent software simple and intuitive - that is
after you know where everything is. In this first lesson, we'll show you where
everything is so you can get a good start with this program.
When you first open Affinity Photo on your iPad, you'll be greeted with the
Home Page. On this page, you have two choices: Either continue working
with an image you've been working on or to press one of the buttons inside
the yellow-marked rectangle. The yellow rectangle is something we added. It
is not there, normally.
The starting screen has two parts:
1. The current images we have worked on (or the pre-loaded images).
2. The four buttons inside the yellow rectangle.
We'll discuss the images you see in the screenshot above. These images are
the photographs we'll be using in this book. We've already uploaded all of
them to our iPad so we can very simply open each and work on it. We'll show
you how you can do this, too.
When you first open this screen on your iPad, your screen may be blank, or it
may show the introductory images that represent Tutorials & Samples. When
you click on the plus sign in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, you'll
have several options to create, open, or import images into Affinity Photo.
Look at this next image to see the next screen. You should have this on your
iPad, too. There are now 13 options you can click on to start a new project.
Honestly, we only use two of these on a regular basis and only one 99% of
the time (see yellow & green squares).
Sometimes we create a New Document, but mostly we work with images we
found using our desktop computer (a MacBook Pro) and then save those
images in our iCloud Drive in a special folder. Then, we can very easily find
them and upload them to our iPad for mobile work.
Of course, you can choose any of the other options and we encourage you to
practice doing that. In fact, you should take some time out of reading from
this book and spend a good 15 minutes clicking on each of these buttons and
see what happens.
If you took some time to practice, we think you're on the right track. Practice
does make perfect.
Let's continue...
We want you to have a few frustrations as possible, so please follow these
instructions for adding the images for this book onto your iCloud Drive.
Open your iCloud account and create a folder by clicking on the Create
Folder button named Affinity Photo iPad - Chapter Images (see white
rectangle in the below image).
We've already created the folder, as you can see. This is the folder you need
to place all of the images used in this book.
Either use the hyperlinks found in this book or, better yet, email us and we'll
send you the image folder within 24 hours of you asking for it. Contact us at:
[email protected].
Once all the book's images are uploaded to this iCloud Drive folder, using
them is simple.
This is how you'd upload the image to the iPad. Go back to the first page.
Click on the Add button (see white rectangle).
Click on the Open From Cloud button (see white square).
This will open the folder that's specific to this book. When the folder opens...
Click on the image you want. In this case, we'll click on the first image.
Immediately after you do this, the image will be uploaded to the iPad's
screen.
Note: This is by far the easiest way to upload images to the iPad's screen. If
you use these steps, we promise you, you'll save yourself many levels of
frustration.