Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angel

Language: German

Affinity Photo Tutorial: Composing a Christmas angel

Hone your Affinity Photo and composing skills at the same time! In this 1.5-hour German Affinity Photo tutorial, you will follow the creation of a Christmas angel. Trainer Marco Kolditz shows you methods for cropping motifs, how to create the metallic look and how to create the snow globe.

Affinity Photo Tutorial in German: Follow a complete composing workflow.
Get to know the Affinity Photo functions (even) better using a practical example.
Free up motifs, create a metal look and a snow globe.
Use brushes to let the snowflakes fall and merge the motifs into a coherent whole.
Find out what to look out for in a photomontage.

Improve your know-how in the use of Affinity Photo and create a first-class composite. This tutorial is a must-have for your Affinity workflow!

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Usable with:
content: 2 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

Compositing of a Christmas angel in a snow globe, created in the Affinity Photo Tutorial in German.

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The Christmas angel

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Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angel - 1 dancer with metal look

In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz prepares the dancer for the release and gives her a metallic look beforehand.

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Compositings in Affinity Photo: Christmas angel - 2 dancer cut out

Affinity Photo offers various options for cropping objects. In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz crops the dancer using the quick mask.

Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angel - 3 wings cut out by path

What would a Christmas angel be without wings? In this video, the wings for the angel are cut out using a path and optimized for placement behind the angel.

Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angel - combine 4 wings and dancer

In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz positions the cropped wings behind the dancer, thus combining both cropped positions and giving the wings a matching metallic look.

Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angels - 5 rocks to cut out and place

The Christmas angel is supposed to stand on a rock - which of course also needs to be cropped. In this video, Marco Kolditz shows you another way to crop an object using Affinity Photo.

Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angels - preparing and placing 6 balls

The Christmas angel is to be placed inside a snow globe. In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz presents an exciting way to create a glass snow globe with Affinity Photo.

Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angels - create 7 snows

In this video, you'll learn how to make it snow inside the snow globe using a customized brush!

Compositing in Affinity Photo: Christmas angels - 8 background and final steps

Let's get to the finale! In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz puts the finishing touches to his Christmas compositing "The Christmas Angel" with a few tricks!

Details of the content

Your Affinity Photo tutorial for a winter photo montage!
What is important in a composing and how do you use the tools of Serif Affinity Photo to create it? - These are the two key questions in this tutorial. Trainer Marco Kolditz provides the answers!

Crop and combine effectively - how to make your composing a success

The German Affinity Photo tutorial contains eight extensive individual lessons. In around 90 minutes, you will follow the creation of a wintry Christmas scene . You can incorporate the workflow shown, or parts of it, into your own processes.

During the course, you will learn various methods for cropping motifs such as the dancer, the angel's wings or the rock. You will transform a picture with an aperture spot against a black background into a glass snow globe, in which you will then make it snow with the help of a customized brush.

A Christmas angel is born - and you learn how to use Affinity Photo

Of course, you will also learn how to convincingly merge the wings and dancer and create the metallic look. How to extract the rock from the original image and incorporate it into the composition is also described in detail. Finally, Marco Kolditz gives you all kinds of tricks for working with Affinity Photo so that the individual components finally fit into a coherent composing.

What you will learn in the Affinity Photo tutorial

On the one hand, you will delve (even) deeper into the functions of Affinity Photo, and on the other, you will learn about various methods of image compositing. Find out how to approach basic tasks such as cropping motifs and then master the detailed fine-tuning. By the way: You can get a complete overview of Affinity Photo in our practical tutorial. You can also take a look at our Affinity Designer training.