Affinity Photo - 5 Tricks for better Pics
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2018
- Learn 5 easy to use tricks that will improve your photography in minutes. These are all things a beginner can do, easy and hands-on. In addition I will show you ways to understand your photography and photo composition better.
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All of these Tricks are used by professional photographers every day. They are the basic elements of a good photo and a well developed composition. Mainly they are:
- Rule of thirds
- 3 Layers (close, mid and far away)
- Left is home, Right is away
- Color Pop with Overlay Blend Mode
- Gaussion Blur with a reversed Mask
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Fascinating psychology to make our photos tell a story. Different people will feel differently, but they will do so for common reasons.
What an outstanding video, Olivio. So much priceless knowledge here.
I came across your videos while looking for Affinity Photo tutorials. I did an online course which was fine, but kind of boring. I’m really enjoying your tips! Thank you!
Great, thanks for teaching us !
Another great tutorial, thank you. I love to know why you do what you do. When you were pulling out the mask and pulling out the effect I wondered why, seemed to be so many more steps than I usually do. I would just invert the selection and apply the effect right to the picture. Well of course, all those extra steps you do is so you can go back and adjust the effect later.
Thank you :) yes, that's the main reason. It's non-distructive, so i can edit it later. If i create designs for customers, i try to keep as much layers editable as possible, because they always want something changed.
Perfect-Τέλειο!!!!!
„Hello my friend“.......wieder ein schönes Video, habe ich sehr genossen.
Danke :) Schön das du wieder mit dabei bist :)
Very helpful and approachable! Thank you.
Gratuliere. Sehr schön; gutes und einfaches Video. Wieder etwas Neues gelernt. Vielen Dank aus Bogota, Kolumbien.
Excellent! Thank you Olivio!
You are welcome, Jerrysis :)
Great video. Thanks so much for posting it. I have just purchased Affinity Photo and your tutorials are very easy to follow and very helpful. Interesting comments regarding the ‘foreground and distance’ sides of a photograph being how we read (here in Australia anyway) left to right. Thanks again for your helpful advise.
Thank you, Starbuck265
That thing with the planes... it fucking blew my mind 🤯
Another wonderful video.
Thank you. Happy you like it :)
Excellent tutorial. Thanks
Thank you, David
Thank great idea for work my images
Thank you, Réjean Char. You are welcome
Good, solid advice.
Thank you Patrick. If you have any tricks i should put in the next video, please let me know :)
Great
Interesting psychology of left is home, right is away from home. I like the insight on composition.
Awesome
Thank you. I thought i do a little bit about the stage before things get into Affinity Photo. After all, good material is the most important element for good results.
Olivio Sarikas The way that you presented everything is very easy to understand. That’s the first time that I ever heard about (home and away from home). It is a great tip
Thank you. Yes, that is a classic in movie production, but for reasons i don't know, it is rarely taughd in photo classes, although it is just as valid there.
Masking a selection and then using the blur looks great but I’ve run into an issue with a noticeable halo around the subject. Anyone else having this issue? Or thoughts on how to remedy it?
If that happens you need to use a extra trick, because it drawn in pixels from the border. So you need to copy that layer and before you select and blur you push the areas with the liquify tool so there are no pixels with another color at the selection border. then use blur :)
Use lens blur instead of gaussian! Real lenses don't work like that and gaussian will look very artificial.
Thank you, Martin. That's a great idea. I will try that for sure :)
Live filters do have their own built in masks, no need to create a separate mask layer
They do, but what are you going to do if you want to duplicate those masks or use them on multiple layers? A independent mask can do that with no problem, plus you can actually see a preview of the mask so you know what is in it. I rather have more control than more convenience. But that just my way to do things.
Olivio Sarikas The built in masks do have a preview, you can paint on them like on a separate layer and you can store them as channel or selection. None of your arguments do really fit and for the dog with gaussian blurred background completely unnecessary.
HI Doc, yes, but everyone has a different workflow. And mine is to create masks instead of using the once build into the effects. I don't like them. You can do it any other way you like. Doesn't mean that any of those ways is better or worse. It's just a choice on how to do things. If you don't like the way i go about things, that's totally ok. There are plenty of other Affinity Photo Tutorial channels out there and most of them are great. I'm really happy about your input and what you say is right. Still my workflow is different and that's ok, because doing things different is the source of creativity.
The first tips where awesome, but using gaussian blur to fake a narrower depth of field is just plain wrong, because a true depth of field gets more out of focus the further away in the picture. Gaussian blur makes everything equal blurred which looks fake.
Hi Pdebie, thank you :) About your feedback: Yes and no. A portrait blur (even for a dog) has the very purpose to be uniform. With a camera you would create that by selecting a background of somewhat equal distance to the camera and far behind the subject and then stand a good distance to the subject while zooming in on the person it. The idea of the uniform blur is to not distract from the subject. That said, you are free to mask out different objects and apply different amounts of blur to them, if you want to. I wouldn't really suggest it though, as that defeats the purpose of that technique.
Hello Pdebie, One more tip from me :-) If you don't like Gaussian blur then try to use different types of blur filter. I like Box blur. It gives similar effect to diffraction. Sometimes I use combination of Box blur and Radial blur (about 1 degree). It looks like "not so good lens". Also you can apply gradient mask. All depends on the kind of background you have.
And one more thing; when you select and cut out subject it is good idea to fill up the empty space left in background with "Inpainting tool" and then blur it. Doing so you will avoid to have soft halo around the subject.
hello.. can you give me just one better trick to make a copy via rectangular, circle..etc... marquee tool?... i'm going crazy now... the whole image is being copied not the selection area....
hi joe, i guess on your layer it says (image) instead of (pixel) - you need to rasterize that layer. right click on it and rasterize
yeah it says (image).. so every time i open an image i have to rasterize it first...
thanks for the great tip.... :)
I don't feel the airplane home thing. I don't see any difference of inference of travel
That's ok. A visual language only works for most people, not all people. Like in other areas too. Most people like ice cream, but some don't. nothing wrong with that.
The last Trick is confusing
Hi Volker, confusing how? It's about blurring the background to isolate the dog.