Affinity Photo Workbook for IPad - Beginner's Guide


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Affinity Photo continues to be the fastest-growing photo editor on the market today. Beginners and professional photo editors love its ease-of-use and its low one-time cost, and it's gotten better than ever. Enter Affinity Photo for iPad - Beginner's Guide. The perfect companion to this award-winning software. This step-by-step training manual will take you from a total beginner to an experienced user. We take complex ideas and make them simple using our unique style of teaching. It is a true beginners training manual. We start the book with the first 10 skills beginners need to know how to use in order to get a grasp of the software. Then, we add 20 step-by-step lessons to teach you cool effects and to grow your working knowledge. Our easy-to-follow teaching style will guide you through each lesson with ease. The first ten skills beginners need to know How Affinity Photo is Designed for Use How to Crop Images How to Remove Objects / Imperfections from a Photo How to Make Selections How to Use the Adjustment Layers How to Use Masks How to Add Text to an Image How to Change the Background of a Photo How to Create a Vignette - Three Methods How to Save, Export & Share Your Work 20 Step-by-Step Lessons How to Create & Use LUTs How to Change the Color of Anything How to Make Blurred Backgrounds How to Create a Frame Around a Photo How to Swap Backgrounds How to Create a Color Splash Effect How to Increase Lighting Naturally How to Apply a Gradient Effect How to Apply a Nashville Filter How to Create a Glitch Effect How to Place Text Behind Your Subject How to Create a Vintage Effect How to Increase Resolution How to Brighten a Portrait How to Create a Pencil Sketch Effect How to Create a Double Exposure Effect How to Create Talking Guinea Pigs How to Create a Light Leak Effect How to Sharpen Portraits How to Create a High-Speed Effect Check out the reviews of our current three Affinity Photo books - see what others have said about our books: The Affinity Photo Manual The Affinity Photo Manual II The Affinity Photo Guidebook For your convenience we created a folder with all of the images you'll use in this book. Simply contact us at [email protected] and we'll send it to you. We've also included hyperlinks to the images used at the beginning of every lesson. Sometimes these links change, so contact us and we'll send you our folder within 24 hours.




The Affinity Photo Manual


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Written specifically for beginner users of Affinity Photo software, presents newly revised and updated first 10 Affinity Photo skills beginners want to learn and 20 new step-by-step lessons on photograph editing techniques using the Affinity Photo software.




Up and Running with Affinity Designer


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Add Affinity Designer to your creative skillset while creating innovative designs and illustrations, building a solid foundation for your future Key Features Understand Affinity Designer's interface and setup, discover its capabilities, and develop an efficient workflow Harness the power of an easy and flexible vector and pixel workflow in one application Learn practical skills and gain the confidence to power your own creative projects Book DescriptionAffinity Designer is a widely adopted creative application, and in a reasonably short space of time, it has become a leading design and illustration application. Affinity Designer, along with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, is part of a suite of award-winning creative software applications developed by Serif Europe. Built on the latest technologies, which make it fast and smooth, Affinity Designer is quickly becoming the go-to professional creative application for vector drawing and pixel-based painting. Up and Running with Affinity Designer is a comprehensive hands-on guide to the Affinity Designer software. Whether you're new to the creative industry, a seasoned professional looking for a proven alternative, or an enthusiastic hobbyist, this book will help you get up to speed in no time. You’ll learn how to create documents and explore workflow best practices while working through practical exercises using the knowledge and skills developed in each chapter to solidify your understanding of the fundamentals. Finally, you’ll bring it all together with real-world practical applications by building a fun logo and professional illustration, forming a base for in-depth exploration in your own projects. By the end of this Affinity Designer book, you'll have gained the knowledge and confidence to use Affinity Designer as part of your creative toolset.What you will learn Explore the interface and unique UX characteristics of Affinity Designer Discover features that allow you to manipulate and transform objects Apply color, shading, and effects to create unique compositions Employ layers to organize and simplify complex projects Use grids, guides, and snapping features as design aids Adapt to Affinity Designer s custom workspaces and keyboard shortcuts Explore the workflow and design best practices for more predictable and successful outcomes Identify potential stumbling blocks in your design process and learn how to avoid them Who this book is forThis Affinity Designer book is for graphic designers, artists, illustrators, and hobbyists. Anyone curious about Affinity Designer's unique toolset and vector and pixel workflows or looking for cost-effective alternatives to the Adobe suite will find this book useful. Experience in working with other similar tools will be helpful, but not necessary.




Essential Affinity Photo


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Quickly learn Affinity Photo image editing Affinity Photo is the hot photo editing package from Serif. It can compete head on with the latest version of Photoshop. It’s also affordable, incredibly powerful and exceptionally flexible. But all this power and flexibility brings its own challenges. Just like Photoshop, Affinity Photo can be confusing and tricky to learn. Even with a background in Photoshop image editing it’s likely you will miss a lot of its features. And unlike Photoshop you won’t have an endless choice of books to learn from. Which is where “Essential Affinity Photo” comes to the rescue. In this comprehensive yet easy to follow book, Landscape Photographer Robin Whalley explains the core features of Affinity Photo Desktop. Written in his unique, easy to understand style, Robin explains logically the essential techniques you need to know to learn Affinity Photo. Follow this book and its examples and you will soon be editing images as though you have been using the software for years. The book is arranged into a series of lessons that focus in on the essential image editing skills. Each lesson builds on the previous one, minimising repetition and saving you valuable time. You will learn about: - Different Affinity Photo Personas, what these do and how to navigate them. - The Develop Persona, using it to convert a Raw photo file into a high-quality image. - How layers form the backbone of the Photo Persona and how to use them to improve your editing. - Different Adjustment layers, filters and live filters you can apply, to fine tune and improve your photography. - How to convert your images to black and white as well as important techniques such as Dodging and Burning. - Creating and using layer masks to precisely target your adjustments to specific areas of an image. - Harnessing the power of the Export Persona. - And lots more. Throughout the book there are examples and exercises for you to follow. The author provides the images for these on his website, allowing you to follow along on your own computer. You won’t need to wade through hundreds of pages to find answers. This is a comprehensive and concise guide to help you learn Affinity Photo. It doesn’t matter if you are a complete novice or have some experience of Affinity Photo, this book could help improve your Affinity Photo editing.




Affinity Designer Workbook


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The Affinity Photo Guidebook


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The (Updated) Affinity Photo Guidebook is a fun to use, step-by-step new user's manual. This DIY book will guide you through the first 10 skills new users need to know how to do plus twenty in-depth techniques to further increase your knowledge and skillset in using this market-leading photo editor. We created each tutorial to be visually impressive with 4K quality screenshots as well as our unique method of italicizing action words and bolding main objects - like the Menu bar - Toolbar items, the Studios, and the Tools. We tell you with our words and show you with our screenshots exactly how to do each step for every tutorial. Features of Affinity Photo Fine-tuned Adjustments Flawless Retouching Incredible Live Filters RAW Image Development Refined Selections Any Device, Anywhere! The 10 Most Wanted New User Skills How to Open Images The Affinity Photo User Interface (aka the Screen) How to Crop Pictures How to Remove Imperfections from a Photo How to Use the Adjustments Layer How to Use Masks How to Make Selections How to Change the Background of a Photo How to Add Text to an Image How to Save & Export Twenty Great Step-by-Step Tutorials How to Create a Double Exposure Effect How to Create a Color Splash Effect How to Create a Stylish Duotone Effect How to Create a Matte Image Effect How to do a Sky Replacement How to Create a High-Speed Effect How to Create a Dispersion Effect How to Create a Face Warp How to Create a Beautiful Pop Art Effect How to Create a 3D or Pop Out Effect How to Create a Water Flame Effect How to Create a Face Swap How to Crop Images in a Circle How to Make a Realistic Shadow How to Make a Transparent Clothing Effect How to Put a Face on the Moon How to Make Realistic Reflections How to Restore Old Photographs How to Transform Any Image into a Pencil Drawing How to Create a Jumping Over Text Effect Complete with a list of hyperlinked images created just for you. If you would like a free tutorial on how we created the John Lennon cover image, please contact us and we'll send you that tutorial free of charge. The Affinity Photo Guidebook was created for the desktop version of Affinity Photo only. We will be creating an iPad version in Fall 2021.




The Craft and Science of Coffee


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The Craft and Science of Coffee follows the coffee plant from its origins in East Africa to its current role as a global product that influences millions of lives though sustainable development, economics, and consumer desire.For most, coffee is a beloved beverage. However, for some it is also an object of scientifically study, and for others it is approached as a craft, both building on skills and experience. By combining the research and insights of the scientific community and expertise of the crafts people, this unique book brings readers into a sustained and inclusive conversation, one where academic and industrial thought leaders, coffee farmers, and baristas are quoted, each informing and enriching each other.This unusual approach guides the reader on a journey from coffee farmer to roaster, market analyst to barista, in a style that is both rigorous and experience based, universally relevant and personally engaging. From on-farming processes to consumer benefits, the reader is given a deeper appreciation and understanding of coffee's complexity and is invited to form their own educated opinions on the ever changing situation, including potential routes to further shape the coffee future in a responsible manner. - Presents a novel synthesis of coffee research and real-world experience that aids understanding, appreciation, and potential action - Includes contributions from a multitude of experts who address complex subjects with a conversational approach - Provides expert discourse on the coffee calue chain, from agricultural and production practices, sustainability, post-harvest processing, and quality aspects to the economic analysis of the consumer value proposition - Engages with the key challenges of future coffee production and potential solutions




The Flavor Bible


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Widely hailed as one of the most influential cookbooks of all time, this is the timeless classic guide to culinary creativity and flavor exploration, based on the wisdom of the world's most innovative chefs Eight years in the making, The Flavor Bible is a landmark book that has inspired the greatest creations of innovative cooks and chefs by serving as an indispensable guide to creativity and flavor affinities in today's kitchen. Cuisine is undergoing a startling historic transformation: With the advent of the global availability of ingredients, dishes are no longer based on geography but on flavor. This radical shift calls for a new approach to cooking -- as well as a new genre of "cookbook" that serves not to document classic dishes via recipes, but to inspire the creation of new ones based on imaginative and harmonious flavor combinations. The Flavor Bible is your guide to hundreds of ingredients along with the herbs, spices, and other seasonings that will allow you to coax the greatest possible flavor and pleasure from them. This astonishing reference distills the combined experience of dozens of America's most innovative culinarians, representing such celebrated and transformative restaurants as A Voce, Blue Hill, Café Atlántico, Chanterelle, Citronelle, Gramercy Tavern, the Herbfarm, Jardinière, Jean Georges, Le Bernardin, the Modern, and the Trellis. You'll learn to: explore the roles played by the four basic tastes -- salty, sour, bitter, and sweet -- and how to bring them into harmony; work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients by discovering which flavors have the strongest affinities for one another; brighten flavors through the use of acids -- from vinegars to citrus juices to herbs and spices such as Makrut lime and sumac; deepen or intensify flavors through layering specific ingredients and techniques; and balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of cooking and serving an extraordinary meal. Seasoned with tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from the country's most respected chefs and pastry chefs, The Flavor Bible is an essential book for every kitchen library. For more inspiration in the kitchen, look for The Vegetarian Flavor Bible andKitchen Creativity.




The Facilitator's Fieldbook


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Loaded with procedures, checklists, guidelines, samples, and templates, The Facilitator's Fieldbook covers all the key areas of successful team management, including establishing ground rules, planning meetings and agendas, brainstorming, resolving conflict, making decisions, and helping groups optimize their time. The completely revised third edition of this longtime go-to resource for novice and experienced facilitators provides new team-building exercises as well as updated information on virtual meetings, mediation, strategic planning, and much more. You'll also gain tips on maintaining the tone and flow of meetings, and will learn to determine when to delegate projects to individuals rather than assembling a group. Collaborative projects have become an increasingly prevalent feature of modern business strategies and workplace dynamics. But intentional, strategic facilitation is essential to making sure these groups and teams are effective. The Facilitator's Fieldbook provides readers the comprehensive tools and knowledge they need to help their teams--and, ultimately, their organizations--succeed.




One Good Trade


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An inside look at what it really takes to become a better trader A proprietary trading firm consists of a group of professionals who trade the capital of the firm. Their income and livelihood is generated solely from their ability to take profits consistently out of the markets. The world of prop trading is mentally and emotionally challenging, but offers substantial rewards to the select few who can master this craft called trading. In One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading, author Mike Bellafiore shares the principles and techniques that have enabled him to navigate the most challenging of markets over the past twelve years. He explains how he has imparted those techniques to an elite desk of traders at the proprietary trading firm he co-founded. In doing so, he lifts the veil on the inner workings of his firm, shedding light on the challenges of prop trading and insight on why traders succeed or fail. An important contribution to trading literature, the book will help all traders by: Emphasizing the development of skills that are critical to success, such as the fundamentals of One Good Trade, Reading the Tape, and finding Stocks In Play Outlining the factors that really make the difference between a consistently profitable trader and one who underperforms Sharing entertaining, hysterical, and page turning stories of traders who have excelled or failed and why, many trained by the author, with an essential trading principle wrapped inside Becoming a better trader takes discipline, skill development, and statistically profitable trading strategies, and this book will show you how to develop all three.