Official Affinity Photo Desktop Tutorials
We've got a brand new set of tutorials that follow a more structured approach and are sorted into logical categories. You can access them by following this link:
https://affinity.serif.com/tutorials/photo/desktop
Please note that the previous thread is now considered legacy and has been unpinned. The videos linked in the thread are also considered legacy—they will remain accessible (albeit unlisted) but ultimately my goal is to produce suitable replacements over time using the new studio setup with live mixing and picture-in-picture. There's been a clear increase in quality of teaching and production values since Affinity Photo was first released back in 2015, and we hope to continue this moving forward.
The videos listed at the above link are hosted on Vimeo. Alternatively, please find a list below with YouTube links:
Basics
UI overview
New document with templates
Light UI
Open and save
Placing images
Pixel vs Image layers
Moving, scaling and rotating
Layers
Advanced layer options
Selecting layers
Mask layers
Undo, redo and history
Exporting
Resizing & resampling
Canvas resizing
RAW development
Tool cycling
Studio presets
Hardware acceleration
External file linking and Resource Manager
Advanced
Adding lens profiles
Manual lens corrections
Keyboard and Mouse Brush Modifier
Colour management
Compression efficiency
Channels
Channels: Selections
HDR merging
HDR ghosts removal
HDR from one exposure
Liquify
Stacking: Object removal
Stacking: Noise reduction
Stacking: Exposure blending
Focus merging
Panoramas
RAW advanced development
HDR/EDR workflow
Macros
360 live editing
OpenColorIO setup
Blend modes
Blend ranges
LAB
Infer LUT
Importing and creating LUTs
Luminosity masks from layers
Masking vs clipping layers
Paste/move inside
Isolating layers
Layer Z order and hierarchical view
Linked layers
Corrective & Retouching
Cropping
Straightening Images
Inpainting
Haze removal
Dodge, burn and sponge brush tools
Clone brush tool
Sky replacement
Chromatic aberration reduction and defringing
Creative Tools
Colour picker tool
Gradient tool
Paint mixer brush
Selection refinement
Fill layers
Pen tool
Bitmap pattern fills
Selecting sampled colours
Selection Brush Tool
Freehand Selection Tool: Freehand, Polygonal and Magnetic modes
Pattern layers
Text on a path
Custom brushes from layer selections
Divide blend mode
Filters & Adjustments
Curves
Levels
Masking adjustment layers
Filters
Live filter layers
Displace filter
Shadows/highlights
Gradient map
Denoising/Noise reduction
Radial blur
Clarity
Channel mixer
White balance
Black & white adjustment
Zoom blur
Selective colour
Procedural Texture: Tone Mapping HDR to SDR
Procedural Texture: Nonlinear Transform Correction
Affine filter: seamless textures
Frequency Separation: Gaussian, Bilateral and Median blur methods
Export Persona
Exporting slices
Workflows & Techniques
PSD write-back and PSB import
PSD smart object import
Editing infrared photography
Relighting 3D renders
Using Matte ID render passes for masking
Lock children (Masking)
Editing metadata
Retouching scanned line drawings
Applying Blender Filmic looks
Compositing 3ds Max and V-Ray render passes
Frequency Separation: Retouching lens flares with Median method
Frequency Separation: Portraiture retouching
Perspective compositing
Astrophotography
Astrophotography stacking: SHO composition
Astrophotography stacking: One shot colour workflow
Astrophotography stacking: Monochrome colour mapping
Astrophotography stacking: LRGB composition
Astrophotography stacking: HaRGB composition
Astrophotography stacking: Bi-colour composition
Astrophotography: Removing background gradients
Astrophotography: Equalising colours
Astrophotography: Sigma Clipping
Astrophotography: File Groups and Filters
Hope you find them useful!
James
