Affinity Photo for Beginners - Complete Course
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- Affinity Photo - Complete Course for Beginners.
Everything you need to know about Affinity Photo - explained in a clear and simple format to get as much from Affinity as fast as possible.
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I couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching Michal!
I dumped my photoshop (for 25 years) this week and bought Affinity, so this is great!
Welcome to Affinity, you're gonna love it!
I’ve just been clicking things and figuring out what they do until now 😂 literally the BEST in-depth tutorial ever! You don’t over explain and I swear I learned so much. Thank you a million times ❤
Thank you so much Amy, I really hope it helped! I truly appreciate the kind words and you taking a moment to leave a comment. Have fun!!
A lot of people are going to be wanting to learn Affinity, and this video is a huge help.
Thank you so much! I hope anyone who watches it finds it helpful. I really appreciate the kind words Bubba!
Goodbye Adobe, hello Affinity! Great video! Thanks for helping me get up to speed!
Welcome to Affinity and thank you so much for watching! have fun!
I'm using Affinity for 3 years and it great. I've forgotten about Photoshop.
love to hear it! thanks for watching Bernard!
I've been using Affinity Photo / Design for YEARS and have always struggled to find a solid channel for tutorials. You earned a new sub with this. Solid information, a lot I already knew - some things I learned for the first time. And you did it with some humor. All around - solid content. Looking forward to more Affinity stuff from you!
Thank you so much for that wonderful comment and becoming a sub! I certainly have more stuff on the way!
I just paid $88 and that includes taxes to Affinity for 3 pieces of software that I now have access to for life. I get both the Windows version and the Macos version. I am even going to run it in Linux under wine.
Thank you for this video. No more monthly payments to a company that is going to invade my privace and make money from m y creations.
You're so welcome and thank you so much for watching and taking a moment of your time to leave a comment.
Welcome to Affinity, you're gonna love it!
This was excellent - I'm switching over to Affinity now, thank you.
Welcome! and thank you so much for watching and taking a moment to leave a comment. Always appreciated!
Thank you for this video! Being new to Affinity Photo, this is just what I needed to help me get started.
I really hope it helps, thanks so much for watching and have fun!
Perfect for migrating from Photoshop ... excellent presentation
Excellent! thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. I truly appreciate it.
Excellent instruction technique. Photo manipulation is a new hobby for me and I've been using AF for about 2 weeks. Your "executive summary" course and teaching style have shown me many things that I will be doing much better from now on.
Thanks so much Steve, I'm so glad you found it helpful. You're gonna have a lot of fun with photo manipulation and creating your own graphics. Truly appreciate the kind words.
I have only just found you, and I am truly impressed, it's not often that you get someone teaching with a sense of humour as well ( I taught systems for over 30 years (I'm 72 now and still learning!!) and it was not always appreciated when I joked about a bit, like putting my boss in a sports car and zooming through five or six Powerpoint slides). Carry on making me laugh or smile and I'll watch all of your videos. I was a Photoshop teacher for many years so I thought this would be hard to crack but you explain it all so well, I'm sure I'll pick it up quickly. Well done
Wow!
Thank you so much. Coming from someone with such experience I truly appreciate that.
I try my best and I'm never sure if it's coming across properly while explaining something - this makes me happy!
Thanks! Just watched the entire video and did the exercises myself too.
That's awesome, I hope you found it helpful Garrett! thanks so much for watching and taking a moment of your time to leave a comment. I always appreciate them.
@@bydesignmethod Very helpful, and I especially appreciated the part on masks and layers.
hey, great video you explained everything so simply and all the information just goes straight in,thanks for the help.
I'm so glad to hear you liked it, thank you so much for watching and taking a moment of your time to leave me a comment!
This was amazing!! My Adobe sub finishes end of this month and after this video, I'm feeling much more confident about working in Affinity Photo. You are such a good teacher too. Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for watching and taking a moment to leave a comment, I really do appreciate your time. I think you'll really like Affinity, they're always improving too!
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You are an absolute gem of a human being! I've only been using the blend mode from a cool textured background with an empty mask on the top layer to use the brush tool to give a unique texture to the "main" part of my thumnail when painting it back in like you showed how to do in your vinyl cover tutorial. Thank you for making a full on beginners guide my friend! Now I can hopefully have the tools to experiment more and make awesome thumbnails.
Hey Octane - that's a great way to use it!
Appreciate your on-going support!
Thanks so much for this beginner's inclusive tutorial. It made a lot of concepts that have found challenging seem more understandable. I'm sure I will be referring back as I continue to learn.
Fantastic! thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment!
Best solution to the cold, is honey and lemon, spoon the mixture straight to the back of your throat. You may not like the taste, but its effective. And a lot of WARM, not hot, water. But drink the water on its own
Thank you, I'm going to try it.. I can't shake this thing.
@@bydesignmethod And I mean pure lemon juice, not the lemon itself
I used to use Affinity Photo v1 years ago, but was never great at it. Took a few years off from photography and just downloaded 2.0. Man, was I lost! I looked at 3 or 4 tutorials before this one, and quit all of them, some after less than a minute, until I found yours. Very impressive video! I learned something I was trying to figure out in the first 5 minutes (I screwed up the pallets on the right and didn’t know how to restore them). I’ve saved this to my iPad to refer back to often. Very well done. Now I’m off to see what other great stuff you offer 😉
Thank you so much for that wonderful comment. I'm so glad you found it helpful, my hope is to help everyone as much as possible. It took some time and effort to get this together so seeing something like this makes it all worth it. Appreciate it!
The two claps before and after each cough 🤣🤣🤣 I sure hope you are feeling better! Thanks so much for a great tutorial. I've been using Designer for two years and I'm just now jumping into A-Photo.
lol...Can you believe I thought I edited all of those out? i'm blaming the cough medicine.
Thanks so much for watching and taking a moment to leave a comment, I appreciate it!
love your skilled teaching style!
Thank you so very much, I really appreciate that.
This was the tutorial I was looking for. Thank you!
I'm so glad! thank you so much for watching!
I was looking for an alternative to PS which I could buy rather than lease and found Affinity but from a previous poor experience with layers, I wasn't looking forward to the experience again. You gave a very lucid tutorial and I'm a lot more confident about the concept now. Thank you.
You're so welcome and thank you so much, I truly appreciate that thoughtful comment.
Thank you so much for your help. I feel like I’ve learned everything from this 1 video, only plz don't stop making them ❤
Thank you so much recap! I'm so glad you found it helpful and don't worry I'll keep creating them! thanks for taking a moment of your time to leave me a comment, always appreciated!
So great! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Thanks for your hard work, time and generosity…I've subscribed
Thanks so much Mark! I appreciate that!
I’m a regular user of AP and thought I knew what I was doing after seeing your video I realised I need to review how I use it thanks for sharing.
You're so welcome! I'm constantly finding new things and ways of doing them as well.
super course .thanks
You're so welcome, thank you so much for watching!
Wow! Excellent! Thank you!!
You are so welcome, thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment Colorado!
Great video and very helpful. Thanks!!
You're so welcome, thank you so much for watching Steven!
Thank you so~~~~~ much. Your video is truly amazing!!
Thank you so much for that lovely comment! and Thank YOU for watching and taking a moment of your time to leave a comment. Always appreciated!
Brilliant - learned loads.
Fantastic! thank you so much for watching!
Excellent, Thank You
You are so welcome, thanks so much for watching!
Excellent quick tutorial
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you very much 🙏🏽
You're so welcome, thank you for watching and taking a moment of your time to drop a comment.
asi explican los buenos profesores, buen video y bien explicado, gracias
muchas gracias. Realmente aprecio tus amables palabras.
Hi I loved this video!!! I felt bad for you having the cough!!! I knew why you did the clapping! Non of those things bothered me!!! I've been using AP for a few years! But there was a few things that I was struggling with!!! You cleaned them up for me!!! New subscriber!!!
Thanks so much! Yes the claps were supposed to be for editing lol.. my bad.. I'm glad they didn't bother you! thank you so much for subscribing, I truly appreciate everyone that does!
Thank you very much Sir
you are awesome
You are so very welcome!
Nice timing and nice tutoriel, thanks 🙏🏻
You're so welcome and thank you so much for watching and leaving me a comment. Appreciated!
I'm glad I found your channel, this guide has been really insightful! 👍
I'm so glad it has been helpful, thank you so much for your kind words.
@@bydesignmethod How's the cold now?
Finally starting to feel normal, thanks for asking! @@JosemariaCarrascoMolina
@@bydesignmethod And I havent watched the full video, but will there be a date on the advanced guide?
No date on an advanced guide yet but certainly in the plans!@@JosemariaCarrascoMolina
Thanks , I am new Affinity Photo . Very Good video
Thank you so much!
awesome tutorial
Thank you so much, I hope it helped!
amazing tutorial! made me buy this after watching! (=
Thanks so much for watching, you're gonna love Affinity!
I have Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer. Was thinking about getting Affinity photos and thought I'd check out some videos before my purchase. Well, you're actually teaching me some things that I can use in the other software! Thanks for being super informative while also not boring. I typically am ready to end it all after watching the usual long ass, winded, monotone teachers 😫 got yerself a new subscriber, buddy... don't know exactly why I went country in that last sentence🤷🏽♀️
Thanks Lola, I really appreciate that!
I checked out your channel and you're super talented, keep that channel growing!
That's all for now Ma'am 🤠
@bydesignmethod awww, thanks so much!
Excellent
Thank you! I hope you found it helpful.
Thanks for this! I've been trying to use Photopea because I don't want Photoshop, but it's very buggy and slow, so I'm doing the free trial for Affinity and I think I'm going to buy it. I'm having a heck of a time doing basic things though, like making and saving a color gradient fill layer to use as a custom vignette, so I really need this video.
Hey,
I tried Photopea as well (not too long ago) and I just couldn't get into it.
Interesting idea, I've never tried saving a gradient fill for a vignette.. will have to poke around
@@bydesignmethod PLEASE do a video on this when you've had a chance to play around with it. This is one area where Photopea is worth the effort, at least until I figure out how to correctly do it in Affinity. lol
Insta-Sub and Insta-like.
Now I have to binge watch your channel.
Thank you so much! I truly appreciate that!
Great! Thanks :)
You're so welcome, thank you for watching!
Thanks!
Thank you so much, you're too kind! I truly appreciate that.
Thanks bro very helpful - It didn't waste my time it was just very good learning - do you have a video for Affinity Designer as well ?
Thanks man!
Only a few videos on Designer but will have something in the future. Appreciate you!
Sold 😊
You're gonna love Affinity, thanks for watching!
I was expecting this software to have subject selection and animation workspace. It´s the only thing that I´d need to leave ps. Great course thank you very much
You're so welcome and I totally agree..been waiting on the subject selection and a few other things.. hopefully its coming soon. Thank you so much for watching, very appreciated!
thanx
You're so welcome! Thank you for watching!
Very impressed with your presentation, would like to have the notes in pdf or similar format for easy reference
Interesting idea, thank you! something I will think about going forward.
well done
Thank you so much Mike!
@@bydesignmethod yes sir - keep 'em coming. Very informative tutuorials
Super Helpful n New Sub!
Thank you so much! I truly appreciate it!
Would love to have a video on how to call another program (transfer photo being edited in Affinity Photo to another program like Smart Photo Editor). I can easily do this in ACDSee Ultimate 2024. So far can't find such a feature in Affinity Photo.
Hey,
I think you're right, no such option in Affinity Photo (yet I hope)
Serif seems to listen to their audience so hopefully something comes through in the future!
Great tutorial. Can you do a video on why and when you would choose Affinity Photo or Designer
Hey!
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I am happy to make a more in-depth on the two.
Great video my friend... most will not know what the clapping meant... but seems you forgot too... :)
Not an issue though... its real and non-obtrusive. Great intro to Affinity Photo.
Thank you very much for watching!
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PS: but seriously though, LOVE THIS. How did you know I’ve been learning Affinity again after a couple of years of Pixelmator Pro.???However, Affinity’s UI feels to me like you need to hire a horse, a pack mule AND a native guide to navigate!!!!
LOL I do love Pub Li Sherr but i'm no expert. I'd like to make a video showing how COOL it is, easy to use and the beautiful linking with Photo and Designer.
Thank you as always for your support!
O Most Excellent Design Method, I am pleased to inform you that our Glorious Leader ALL HAIL!!! is most pleased that you would like to make a video representing the COOLNESS of Affiniteee Pub Li Sherr ALL HAIL!!!! @@bydesignmethod
Thanks for the info, very helpful, especially with the color wheel. Question, what is the purpose of creating a document? It sounds like a dumb question I’m sure. Thanks again.
You're welcome! a new document would be the first step to create anything new in Affinity Photo. Many times you can be working on something and need to create another project so you would simply create a new document and a 2nd tab would appear so you could flip back and fourth between them.
Let me know if I misunderstood the question and thank you again for watching!
This is great thanks - somehow I lost the 'current layer and below option' - do you know how can find it again? thanks!! 😻
I would reset your studio back to default go to 'Window > Studio > Reset Studio'
let me know if that doesn't work!
like others have said..this is the playlist and tutorial style and content I've been searching for...thank you so much! With your membership option what else becomes available? Do you answer individual questions? thanks.
Your so welcome and thank you very much for talking some of your time to leave a comment.
The membership thing is new to me to be honest, I answer every question and try to provide as much value as possible. I'm always looking for new ways to do that and truly appreciate anyone that supports the channel.
@@bydesignmethod thanks for responding so quickly, will sort out the membership option today (is paypal available?)
@@stephstephatron2887 Hey, to be honest i'm not sure what the payment options are via CZcams membership, I'm trying to find out!
@@bydesignmethod yeah I kept getting the spinning wheel of disconnect when I attempted to pay with paypal so that's why I was asking, will try from a different device.
@@stephstephatron2887 Appreciate you!
Hi; I've been using Affinity Photo for a few months now (off and on); and have found your videos to be one of the most helpful. Question; what is the best/easiest way to blur a background, or even certain areas of a background?
I'd love it if you could explain, as you make it easier to understand than others I've seen. Thank you so much.
Hey!
The easiest way to blur a background (or certain parts) would be using the 'Depth of Field' filter.
It will give you a circle or radius you can use to keep clear and it will blur the rest, you can adjust the radius as needed and the blur intensity.
To give it a try go to Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Blur > Depth of Field
It's also destructive so you can edit/delete it at anytime without causing any damage.
Let me know if that works ok, every photo is different!
@@bydesignmethod ok, thank you, would like to give a try; as time permits. Thanks so much for responding
Hey Design Method, great tutorial again as always! One thing I need help with though. When I add an adjustment layer it is always added below my image, never above. Let me know if there is an option I need to select. Thanks!!!
Interesting, just confirming - you have your image selected in your layers panel, you add an adjustment layer - the layer always appears underneath the image (not affecting it) and you have to manually move it above the image? let me know!
The adjustment layer still affects the image when you make changes but it shows up when you click dropdown on the left side of the image under the image icon. I noticed when you apply it, it automatically shows up above. Weird!
Great video and I loved the insight on the video. If your teaching style wasn't so good, however, I would have probably clicked off the video because of all the mouth noises (swallowing, coughing, etc). I even noticed the clapping where you intended to edit those coughing parts out lol. I look forward to more videos :) but please, put more time on cutting out bits that mess with people with misophonia :).
I truly apologize, I'm quite embarrassed about it! I recorded over a series of days and kinda in a haze and thought I had edited everything. If the video wasn't so long I would have removed it and started again.
Thank you for understanding and sticking around, I will definitely do better next time!
Hi just finished this course which is amazing btw🎉… when I’m drawing in affinity photo and I’m adding line weight to my illustration… whatever brush I’m using stamps to the section on drawing in… any solution to this? … if your not familiar with drawing what I mean by adding line weight is going over a line multiple times to make it darker
Hey are you using a tablet with a pen or just a mouse - let me know and thank you so much for watching!
@@bydesignmethod yes I’m using a drawing tablet … Huion 22 plus to be exact
I haven't got shape or text tool down the left side. I'm only 11 minutes into your video maybe it's explained later. ... I found it ... it just doesn't fit so there's a double arrow at the bottom which has more options.
You got it!
Hello,
I'm a little new to Affinity but have a little bit of computer experience with various older drawing apps. After I get an imported photo modified the way I like in Affinity Designer or Photo, what is the best file to save it onto my MacBook desktop so it can be moved to the Lightburn app on my laser machine to engrave onto a wood surface? PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc?
Thanks!
Hey Rick,
I can't say I have much experience with Laser engraving but I think PDF or perhaps SVG (vector) may be best. Do you have the model type/brand of what you use? I may be able to find out for you.
@@bydesignmethod Thunder Bolt
@@rickwhite3112 Thanks, looks like it accepts many formats (including what you mentioned) but I would try PDF and SVG for the highest quality format.
@@bydesignmethod thank you!
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Is there a way to reset the back and foreground colours back to black n white using a shortcut? Or, is that even a thing in Affinity Photo? Ty
Hey,
By default it's X, whatever colours you set to flip back and fourth. Great for masking although you probably already know that!
@@bydesignmethod Thanks dude. When you were placing your image, I noticed the guides appeared... I can't seem to get them to show. And/ or, I want some guides to show if I'm placing an image into the centre of the document. Is this a 'snap' setting feature? The 'snap' settings come with a slue of settings (phew) I just want to know if the image is in the dead centre. I'm all about being centred of late 😉Ty dude
Hey sorry I missed this, your comment was 'held for review' for some reason!
To see your guides make sure you select 'view > guides'
as for snapping mine is set to snap to gride, baseline grid, guides & spread from the little 'magnet' in the top right corner.
let me know if that helps!
when I try to change the perspective of "Design" on the Road using the non-detructive layer method, I select new live Filter>Distort>Perspective, the all image moves as well as the word "Design" what am I doing wrong
Hey John,
Just confirm in the layers panel do you just have the text selected and nothing else? you want to make sure Affinity knows you only want to apply the effect to the text.
If the Perspective effect appears at the top of the layer stack it will affect everything below it.
Try dragging the perspective in the layers panel on top of the text to isolate it to only that text
Let me know if you still have issues!
I think what was happening, I selected the Text went to new filter layer etc. but the filter did not
automatically group with the text layer. When I did group it, everything worked as it should. I forgot to say in my first comment that I am enjoying your tutorials and find them very useful. Keep up the good work.@@bydesignmethod
make tutorial for other apps publisher and designer
Hey,
I have a few for designer currently:
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More on the way - thank you for watching!
I see how to add a photo to the work space/canvas which makes a layer. but now to add a second photo. I want to do what you did at 1:14:19 with two different photos. Each time I open a second photo, the old one disappears.
Hey,
Just to make sure I'm understanding - you're trying to make a selection on one photo, when that's done you add a second photo and the original one disappears?
does it show in the layers panel still? happy to take a look if you want to send me screenshots
bydesignmethod@gmail.com
@@bydesignmethod When I select a second photo, itnstead of adding it to the layers stack, it creates a new empty tab that it then populates with the second photo. I've since learned that I have to use "post" not "open" to add the second photo.
im using a macboook air and I'm missing some tools what can I do?
Hey,
First I would try resetting your studio back to default by going to Window > Studio > Reset Studio
If that doesn't work you can always go to View > Customize Tools and drag in whatever tool you're looking for into your toolbar.
Let me know if that doesn't work!
@@bydesignmethod I found the problem I bought the wrong one but steel thx
Is there afinity foto for android???
Hey,
No version for Android. Mac/PC and iPad currently.
I have a cold as well....
how could you tell? *cough* aha!
I cannot find a video where someone explains JUST photo editing! every video i see for affinity photo goes over nonsense like adding shapes or text... does anyone recommend a channel where you see someone simply take a raw file and make it awesome? A Landscape? Portraits? Weddings?
who starts a beginners guide without talking about 80% of the program features? try the affinity learning site I guess!
@@bydesignmethod I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just not finding photo editing videos for this program. Even on affinity site! It's hard to take a photo editing program seriously that focuses on adding shapes or text or Instagram filters. I'd like to see a pro edit a nice portrait... know of any channels like that?
@@tomowens7499 Hey Tom, no worries I totally understand and you're right about most channels showing everything but actual photo editing.
I think if you search 'Robin Whalley' he is a photographer who uses Affinity for a lot of stuff.. he may have some videos that will be helpful. All the best!
I use Photoshop for photo editing but this video starts off with page design stuff which I don't care about.
I wish your comment made sense. Oh well.
[Edit] Having complained it was much too fast, the poster Design Method told me I could slow down the playback, I didn't realise. I'm using VLC on a Mac and indeed I can do that. Problem solved, thanks. I've left my original comment for context.
[Original comment] Waaaaay too fast narration for me, I don't doubt you know the subject, but you're talking far too fast, we need time for the information to sink in.
Hey Brian,
Sorry to hear that - maybe change your playback speed to .75 or .5?
@@bydesignmethod Being in my 70s, didn't realise I could, I'll look. Takes nothing away from the content. Thanks for taking the trouble to do it in the first place - a lot of work there. Take care.
Where is the photo editing content? Mostly just graphic design. Disappointing.
Hey Peter,
Totally understand - i'm not a photographer in anyway, shape or form so I don't use the tools and wasn't going to pretend I do.
I do see where you're coming from - it's a photo program so it makes sense but many users use Affinity in a photoshop style - no real photography involved!
Sick of these videos, please, please, please just open just one raw file(forget the size, just a simple edit using all the sliders and save to jpeg.
Hey Robbeard, I understand where you're coming from - many people who use Affinity aren't photographers (including me) - not the best way to go about making a comment though.
@@bydesignmethod Why the - not the best way to go about making a comment though.
Ridiculous comment! If you want to know how to edit raw files, Search for raw edit tutorials. Don't watch a beginner's guide and then sulk and complain when it doesn't cover something specific that you want to know about. That is what the search bar is for. Unbelievable.
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I appreciate you, thanks so much!