Frank Walters - The Affinity Photo Guidebook: A Step-by-Step New Users Manual

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Who is this book for?

This book is specifically written for beginners of Affinity Photo and those curious about how to use this awesome software.

If you are a professional photo editor, then this book will be too basic for you. If you're coming from the Adobe architecture of programs, then this book is a good starting guide for you as an introduction to the Affinity architecture of programs.

How is the book structured?

We'll guide you through the first 10 basic skills new users need to learn how to use when starting out with Affinity Photo. Then, we'll continue teaching you how to do 20 interesting 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 Step-by-Step Instructions

One of the criticisms we receive is the fact that new users have hard time following the instructions exactly how we have them laid out. Unfortunately, photo editing is a precise art. Each step builds upon the next. If you skip one step, the entire project won't work. Trust us, we wish it was otherwise, but it's not.

Contact us if you ever get frustrated and we promise we'll respond as fast as we can to help you out of any jamb you might find yourself in. We are here for you 100%.

Image Quality

Amazon is our publisher and printer. If you have concerns about the quality of the images in our book(s), please do not leave a negative review. We have nothing to do with the printing process. In most cases, you can return the book if you are not happy with it.

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'll consider we've done our job if when you are done going through this book, you're able to retain most of the skills you learnt in this book.

Download the Images First Before You Start

We only use license-free images we find on Pixabay, Unsplash, and Pexels. Before you start working in this book, you'll need to download all of the images for this book and place them in a folder on your Desktop named "Affinity Photo Guidebook" (or another name you like better).

You can do these two ways:

Contact us and we'll email you the image folder and give you a free gift (see below).

Go to our Facebook page and download the images from there.

Our email is kuhlmanpublishing@yahoo.com

Our Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/WritePublish/

To find the images on our Facebook homepage, click where is reads Photos and then click where you see the name of this book - The Affinity Photo Guidebook .

Positive Reviews

Positive reviews really make a difference! It shows our writers that they are doing a good job. If there is anything you don't like about our book, please contact us at kuhlmanpublishing@yahoo.com and we promise we'll help you as fast as we can or address the situation you are not in favor with.

Intro: The Eight Areas of the Affinity Photo Screen

Every new software has its own screen set-up. Affinity Photo is no different. To make your learning as easy as possible, we have divided the User Interface (UI) screen up into eight different areas. You can also find a detailed graphic in Basics 2 that will visually show you where all of these areas are on the screen.

It's very important to know exactly where each of these areas are located. During the course of this book, we'll give you prompts like:

Go to the Menu bar - File - Save... and you'll have to know what that means.

It means simply: Go to the top of the screen where the Menu bar is located and click on File. This will open a drop-down menu where we want you to click on the option Save...