Creative image editing with Affinity Photo

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Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays

Welcome to your creative rendezvous with trainer Marco Kolditz. Feel invited by inspiration, image ideas and instructions to effectively design your own photos with overlays. Creative image editing in Affinity Photo - how to use overlays correctly!

Image editing: How to create artistic or realistic overlays in Affinity Photo.
Inspiration: Explore the almost unlimited possibilities of using overlays.
Picture ideas: Creative examples show what you can get out of your own pictures.
Instructions: Learn the necessary techniques and turn your ideas into reality.
Including: recreating the look of an old photo, lighting up hair with fire overlays
Over 2.5 hours: a creatively powerful Affinity Photo training course by digital artist Marco Kolditz
Bonus: 1 hour on the basic use of brushes in Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer

Take this rewarding time-out of over 150 video minutes to create convincing, exciting and artistic image overlays yourself at the end.

Details

Usable with:
content: 4 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

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Example: "Man of the Forest" - in the style of a double exposure:

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Example: Create a spectacular play of colors with overlays.

Woman with fiery hair, fire overlay added to Affinity Photo, example of creative image editing training

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Example: Burning hot - how to use fire overlays to make your pictures flare up.

Skyscrapers with overlays incorporated into Affinity Photo

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Example: Use overlays to set the scene for lettering!

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Example: Turning new into old - how to use overlays to age photos.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays

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Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 01 | Intro

Welcome to this Affinity Photo training, in which you will gain inspiration and interesting facts about creative image editing using overlays. Your trainer Marco Kolditz explains what you can expect.

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Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 02 | Presets

Before the video training, you should make some settings in Affinity Photo that will make it easier for you to use the program and follow this video training.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 03 | Old image look

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains in a clear way how you can give a modern, detailed and colorful photo the impression of a very old, noisy, faded, analog image with the help of various overlays.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 04 | Color play

With the help of photo overlays, you can not only transfer detailed structures to images, but also create specific plays of color to make an image more interesting. Watch this video to learn how to create color effects in Affinity Photo.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 05 | Fire overlays (Girl on Fire)

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to turn a portrait of a red-haired woman into an exciting image of a woman with burning hair using various fire overlays and sparks.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 06 | The man of the forest

In this video, learn how to use different photo overlays to turn a black and white portrait into a colorful and imaginative portrait of a "man of the forest".

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 07 | Fireworks

Watch this video to find out how you can use layer blending modes to easily and convincingly incorporate fireworks into the night sky of a large city and create a suitable reflection of the fireworks on water.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 08 | Pattern on shirt

Affinity Photo makes it possible to transfer patterns, symbols and textures to uneven surfaces in a very realistic way. In this video, symbols are offset against a wrinkled shirt so that the symbols are based on the folds of the shirt.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 09 | Photo on poster canvas

Overlays can be used to create exciting image compositions. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to prepare an image of a poster canvas so that you can easily and realistically place photos of your choice on the detailed canvas.

Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays: 10 | Text as overlay

Texts can also be used in Affinity Photo in the form of overlays - while still remaining editable. It is also possible to combine different overlay techniques on just one text at the same time. Get to know these techniques in this video.

Bonus: Brushes in Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer

Affinity Photo - Apply brushes: 11.1 | Basic settings

In Affinity Photo, you can use brushes not only to create individual drawings. Brushes are often also needed in the area of masks and selections. The standard options offer initial setting options for user-defined use.

Affinity Photo - Apply brushes: 11.2 | Advanced settings

Each brush can be customized. The standard behavior can be adjusted and textures can be added, for example. I will introduce these functions in this part of the training.

Affinity Photo - Apply Brushes: 11.3 | Import and Organization

Organizing brushes is very easy in Affinity Photo. I'll also show you how to add and organize additional brush tips.

Affinity Photo - Apply brushes: 11.4 | Create your own brushes

You can't always find the right brush and are inclined to create your own. This can be very helpful in the area of signatures or watermarks, for example. Find out which steps are necessary in this part of the training.

Affinity Photo - Apply Brush: 11.5 | Special Brush Color Mixer

A special brush is the paint mixing brush, which can be used to blend colors together. I will briefly introduce it.

Affinity Designer - Apply Brushes: 11.6 | The Vector Brush

Affinity Designer also has a simple brush settings dialog for the vector brush. You can use this to influence how the drawn lines look.

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Inspiring: How to use overlays in Affinity Photo for creative images
Overlays are a popular way of making targeted changes to photos. Almost anything seems possible: use effects to influence the mood of the image, add completely new motifs or completely restage your images and even text. Marco Kolditz ignites your creative engine - that's what awaits you in the 2.5-hour overlay training course on creative image editing with Affinity Photo :

Image editing with a feel for the big picture and the small details

Apply an overlay, change the blend mode and adjust the size ... In principle, this is exactly how overlaying your photos with additional image elements works. But whether artistic or realistic - when using overlays , the result must be coherent. Because this is the only way to convince viewers of your image idea!

That's why Marco Kolditz explains how to work with overlays in Affinity Photo . On the other hand, he also points out what you should pay attention to in detail in order to create a harmonious overall picture. Get to know the methods of creative image editing and sharpen your eye at the same time!

Creative image ideas for using overlays

Yes, learning can be fun. That's why Marco Kolditz presents his creative instructions with pure practical relevance using concrete examples:

Old picture look: let your photos age realistically.
Like double exposure: Overlay a black and white portrait with a tree.
Play with colors: Create bright, colorful works of art.
Burning hot: How to make hair flare up with fire overlays.
On a large surface: How to add your photo to a billboard.
As if it were real: apply patterns and symbols to the fabric structure of clothing.
A real firecracker: Set off fireworks in the sky of a photo.
Convey a message: Text can look so beautiful as an overlay.

Are you looking for great overlays? Take a look at the corresponding category, where you can discover fiery overlays or scratchy grunge textures, for example.

Bonus: Trainer Norbert Schumann shows you how to work with brushes in Affinity Photo: settings, import and organization, how to create your own brushes and how to use the color blending brush. You'll also find out what vector brushes in Affinity Designer are all about.