Photography without Adobe software
Beyond the mud walls
Digital photography without Adobe software
I used to write articles for the mac Valley Voice newsletter and I thought I would write about digital photography using software made by companies other than Adobe. While I own and use Adobe software I have not bought “into” the Creative Cloud.
Since adobe is a mix of straw and mud I hope you will understand the title of this series. Like,comment and share is you wish. And these articles will also be posted to my Tumbr account and my own website someday.
Overview of Affinity Photo
Affinity photo is made by Affinity Serif
It is a Mac only program that costs $ 50 USA
There is a 10 day trial version and online videos.
I will point out the differences between Affinity and other programs.
It has a changeable tool bar at the top and tools running down the left side of the program. Right side is a Histogram with
Adjustments, layer effects, styles and stock photos below that.
Bottom Right is the Navigator, transform, history and channels.
Channels has composite Alpha, Background Alpha. As well as the normal RGB channels.
On the left side under the paint brush is a color replacement brush. Under the erase tool is a background erase tool. With the band aid tool you have healing brush, patch, in painting and red eye removal. Also a blemish tool.
Exporting
The normal export functions are under the file menu and also the export persona. There is a setting for final cut pro under the PSD tab. For SVG and EPS you have print and web settings.
Share has settings for e mail, Twitter and Facebook.
Personas
These are on the upper left of the program and are modes.
Photo, Liquify,Develop and Export. The only big change is that white balance in the develop persona there is a eyedropper. But it is a cross on the screen. The Crop tool has a rule of thirds grid.
Filters
You have Frequency Separation for skin retouching built in. For Photoshop there are actions you can use for this. There is a online video for portrait retouching that is useful to watch. And under colour there is erase paper white filter. I am thinking that this is intended for scanned artwork but I will try it with people and products shot on a white background.
Haze Removal is also a filter.
<p>Overall it is faster than PS CS 5 on my macs.</p>
Frequency Separation Video
https://vimeo.com/130965888
Liquify for Beauty retouching
https://vimeo.com/130965048
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