Shortcuts

• Photo Shortcuts Windows
• Photo Shortcuts Mac
• Designer Shortcuts Windows
• Designer Shortcuts Mac

Beginners Series

• Opening & Saving
• Layers
• Adjustments
• Filters
• Exporting
• 10 Basic Tasks
• FAQs

Introduction

• Discover Affinity Photo
• Getting Started
• Technical Benefits

Basics

• Accessing Help
• Cutting Out
• Document Setup
• Layer Concepts
• Layers Overview
• Live Filter Layers
• Scaling and Transforming
• Understanding DPI

Finishing Off

• Sharpening
• Selective Sharpening
• Exporting
• Export Compression Efficiency

Transforming

• Aligning Images
• Canvas Resizing
• Cropping: Aesthetic
• Cropping: Golden Spiral
• Cropping: Options
• Cropping: Practical
• Document/Image Resizing
• Straightening Images

Selections and Masking

• Clipping vs Masking
• Exposure Merging
• Making Selections
• Mask Layers
• Pixel Selections from Layers
• Quick Masks
• Refining Selections
• Using Adjustment Layers on Masks
• Vector Masking

Correction

• Adjustment Layers
• Changing Eye Colour
• Curves
• Defringing and Chromatic Aberration
• Dual Perspective Correction
• FFT Denoise
• Graduated ND Filter Effect
• Haze Removal
• LAB Colour Mode
• Levels
• Live Perspective
• Perspective Skew Correction
• Removing Lens Flares
• Salvaging Underexposed Images
• Shadows/Highlights
• Split Toning and Selective Colour

Retouching

• Bringing Out Water Detail
• Cloning
• Enhancing Camera Phone Photography
• Enhancing Landscapes/Architecture
• Frequency Separation
• Inpainting
• Liquify: Retouching
• Making Images Pop
• Quick Inpainting Crooked Horizons
• Revealing Sky Detail
• Vector Architecture: Worked Example
• Vector-Based Retouching

RAW Development

• 32-bit Raw Development
• Automatic Lens Corrections
• Custom Tone Curve
• Maximising Raw Latitude
• Raw Colour Quality
• Raw Development Quality
• Raw: Developing Images
• Raw: Discover Develop
• Raw: Exposure Bias
• Raw: Noise Reduction
• Raw: Overlays
• Raw: Recovering Overexposed Highlights
• Raw: Redeveloping Images

Getting Creative 1

• Abstract Ideas 1
• Abstract Ideas 2
• Adding Borders
• Adding Extended Borders
• Blend Modes
• Blend Ranges
• Brushes
• Circular Bokeh
• Colour toning with shapes
• Compositing Landscapes
• Creating Atmosphere
• Creating Light Beams
• Creating Photo Collages
• Creative Black & White
• Creative Gradients
• Creative Painting
• Diffuse Glow
• Displacement

Getting Creative 2

• Enhancing Low Light Trails
• HSL Tonal Separation
• Infrared Emulation
• Light Painting Compositing
• Lighting
• Liquify Persona
• Orton Effect
• Radial Blur
• Regular Tone Mapping
• Sepia Images
• Simple Gradients
• Simulating Ambient Occlusion
• Sky Replacement
• Swirling Bokeh
• Technicolor Emulation
• Text: Branding/Watermarking
• Texturing with Blend Modes
• Tone Mapping Portraits
• Vector Lighting

Design Aids 1

• Batch Processing
• Brush Stabilisation
• Clone Sources
• Curves Picker
• Designer/Photo Interworking
• Direct PSD write-back (round tripping)
• Edge Detection for Masking
• Exporting 3D LUTs
• Flexible Defringing
• Freehand Selection Tool
• Global Cloning
• Importing .abr Brushes
• Layer Creation Behaviour
• Layer Nesting
• Light UI
• LUTs for Tonal Adjustments

Design Aids 2

• Modifiers
• Multiple Colour Formats
• Non Destructive Inpainting and Cloning
• Non-Destructive Dodge & Burn
• Pixel Accurate Design
• Pixel Art Resize
• Placing Documents
• Quick Toggling Panels
• Scopes
• Snapshots
• Split & Mirror View
• Subtle Toning
• Undo Brush with Snapshots
• Undo History
• Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
• View Points

Channels

• Channels
• Channels for Alpha Masking
• Channels: Creating/Storing Selections
• Editing Single Channels
• Channels: Greyscale Blending
• Channel Packing

Filters

• Live Filter Layers
• Apply Image
• Apply Image: Equations
• Equations Filter
• Dust & Scratches Filter
• Halftone Scanlines Effect
• Mirror filter
• Diffuse Glow Filter
• Defeating Filter Limits

Panoramas

• Panoramas
• Tricky Panoramas
• Panorama Distortion Correction

HDR

• 32-bit Editing
• Advanced Editing
• From one exposure
• Ghosts Removal
• Merging & Tone Mapping
• Panoramas
• Preprocessing
• Tone Map Presets

Focus Merging

• Focus Merging
• Focus Merge Retouching
• Focus Merging Bracketed Exposures

Live Stacking

• Big Stopper Effect
• Light Painting Blending
• Maximum Stacking
• Pin Sharp Stars
• Stacking: Exposure Merging
• Stacking: Long Exposure Simulation
• Stacking: Noise Reduction
• Stacking: Object Removal
• Stacking: Star Trail Effect

Live Projections 360 editing

• 360 Advanced Editing
• 360 Live Editing
• 360 Multiple Views
• 360 Retouching
• 360 Roll Correction
• Live Perspective Projection

OpenEXR/32-bit

• OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export
• OpenEXR Import Options
• Editing 32-bit 3D Renders
• OpenEXR: Using Alpha Channels & Association

3D Render/Texture Work

• 3D Relighting with Normal Map Passes
• Clone Sources: Texture Creation
• Enhancing 3D Renders 1
• Enhancing 3D Renders 2
• Seamless Textures
• Tone Mapping 3D Renders

Colour Management

• OpenColorIO Setup
• OpenColorIO Adjustment
• Soft Proofing
• Printing on Mac
• Printing on Windows
• Wide Colour Profiles vs sRGB

Macros

• Macros
• Macros: Equations
• Macros: Layer Behaviour
• Batch Processing with Macros

Plugins

• Installing Nik Plugins (macOS)
• Installing Nik Plugins (Windows)
• Installing & Using Nik Dfine

Projects

• Nature Portrait
• Supermoon
• Product Shot Retouching 1
• Nighttime Architecture Workflow
• Portrait Retouching Workflow

Windows Workflow

• Banded Demoiselle
• Canary Wharf
• Hadrian's Wall
• Monochromatic Architecture
• Portrait Retouching
• Tiled Building