Language: German

Crop with Affinity Photo - tools and techniques

Photography & image editing · 17 Videos · 4.7 h Video training · German

by Marco Kolditz

After this video training, you'll be able to make the right choice with the right technique for your subject! Whether fine hair, smoke, water splashes, transparent glass or people in front of a textured background - Marco Kolditz presents pixel- and path-based methods for cropping with Affinity Photo in 4.5 well-sorted lessons.

Always needed: Learn how to crop subjects using Affinity Photo
Make the right choice: Learn pixel, mask and path-based techniques
Master every motif: cut out objects, people, animals from different backgrounds
Pay attention to detail: How you crop hair, add strands, insert motifs into other images
Tips and tricks: sensible presets, replacing the sky, cropping signatures
Marco Kolditz - concrete examples - 4.5 hours: Everything you need to know about clipping in Affinity Photo

Know how! Opt for this video training and thus for efficient "selection methods" with which you can achieve the finest and most detailed cropping in your images.

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17 Videos, 282 minutes

Intro to the video training

1 Video · 1 minute

01 Open free of charge

This is what you can expect in the video training "Crop in Affinity Photo"

1 min

Watch this video to find out what you can expect in the "Crop in Affinity Photo" training course.

7 MB To the text tutorial: Removing backgrounds in Affinity Photo

Cutting out with Affinity Photo

16 Videos · 280 minutes

02 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 01 | Presets and tips

17 min

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz draws your attention to important and very helpful presets in Affinity Photo, which make working with the image editing program much easier. He also gives general tips on source images, which are sometimes more and sometimes less suitable for cropping.

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03 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 02 | General tips for selections

18 min

Crops are always created using selections - whether by pixel selection, masks or paths. In this video, Marco Kolditz gives you general tips on how to deal with selections that are necessary for clipping.

40 MB To the text tutorial: Perfect selections and cutouts with Affinity Photo

04 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 03 | Pen tool

15 min

Technical objects with clear edges and curves in particular can be easily cropped using the pen tool. In this video, you will learn how to use this tool optimally and achieve convincing results.

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05 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 04 | QuickMask

14 min

With the help of the QuickMask, objects with uneven contours can also be selected and cropped perfectly. In this video, you will learn how to use the paint brush tool in combination with the QuickMask to best isolate an object from the background.

67 MB

06 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 05 | Channels

17 min

Channels can also be used to quickly and easily detach certain objects from the background and crop them in this way. In this video, you will learn how to use channels for cropping using the channel mixer in Affinity Photo.

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07 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 06 | Crop with the background eraser

15 min

Affinity Photo offers the Background Eraser tool, which can be used to completely erase the background of an image and make it transparent. Learn how to use this destructive tool in this video - and find out from video trainer Marco Kolditz how you can still work non-destructively with this tool.

38 MB To the text tutorial: Extracting with the background eraser in Affinity Photo

08 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 07 | Crop glass objects

27 min

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to convincingly crop glass objects in Affinity Photo and place them on a different background.

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09 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 08 | Crop via blending options

10 min

The blending options in Affinity Photo are a very powerful tool that can also be used for cropping image areas - and unfolds its great potential especially in combination with other cropping options.

37 MB To the text tutorial: Creative masking with blend options in Affinity Photo

10 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 09 | Single color background

21 min

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz will show you how to crop a person in front of a monochrome background in the best possible way and preserve even the finest details of the hair, such as individual strands of hair. You'll also learn how to convincingly correct unwanted colored edges.

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11 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 10 | Structured background

25 min

A structured background and sharpness gradients make it difficult to crop people and especially hair. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz teaches you how to achieve a convincing result despite difficult source material.

158 MB

12 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 11 | Correct fur

19 min

Sometimes, when cropping hair or fur, it is necessary to add individual strands of hair to the image afterwards and blend them perfectly into the rest of the image. Watch this video to find out how to do this.

65 MB To the text tutorial: Fur correction and isolation made easy

13 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 12 | Insert image objects harmoniously

16 min

Successful cropping is only half the job - because in order to optimally integrate a cropped object into a new environment, other important editing steps are important, which Marco Kolditz demonstrates in this video.

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14 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 13 | Crop and replace sky

11 min

Watch this video to find out how you can easily remove an unwanted sky, replace it with a different sky and perfectly adjust the rest of the image to the new lighting mood.

39 MB To the text tutorial: Replace sky with Affinity Photo

15 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 14 | Crop lights, water splashes and smoke

25 min

Whether light objects such as sparks or fireworks, water splashes, dust or smoke: particles can add interesting effects to images. In this video, you will learn about various ways to crop such image objects and customize them to your liking.

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16 Open

Clipping with Affinity Photo: 15 | Applying clipping masks

19 min

You can also use path objects or text to cut out areas of an image and create interesting effects. In this video, you will learn how to use paths and texts to highlight and crop image areas or even punch out specific areas from an image - in a non-destructive way that can always be adjusted afterwards.

57 MB To the text tutorial: Using Clipping Masks in Affinity Photo

17 Open

Crop with Affinity Photo: 16 | Crop and export signature

11 min

It can be very practical if your own signature is available as a file with a transparent background to quickly sign documents in Word or PDF format or to add your own signature to your email signature. Watch this video to find out how you can easily crop your own signature and optimize it for use.

32 MB To the text tutorial: Isolate signature in Affinity Photo

Examples of use

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Example: Learn how to crop hair in Affinity Photo.
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Example: Even with structured backgrounds, you are able to crop portraits.
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Example: Different motifs are processed so that you can master any cropping challenges.
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Example: Which cropping technique is suitable for what - you'll get answers in the course!

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Hair-on-fire: cropping means attention to detail

Clipping - an essential skill for anyone who edits images. In this comprehensive tutorial by trainer Marco Kolditz, you will learn how to successfully master all the small and large clipping challenges in Affinity Photo .

Creating selections in Affinity Photo - these are your learning objectives

From headphones in front of a monochrome background to filigree hairs in front of a textured background - the image decides how big the clipping challenge is and which technique you should use best. After the cropping training, you will be able to ...

... choose the most effective cropping technique for each image subject.
... use the various cropping methods efficiently.
... take all important aspects into account to achieve detailed results.

You haven't dealt with cropping at all or only partially so far? Perfect! This tutorial is ideal for both beginners and advanced learners. Your trainer will introduce you to the various techniques step by step and take you from the basics to all the aspects that you should consider when cropping, even as a professional.

Do you already know the cropping techniques from other programs? Then use the video training to apply your knowledge quickly and easily in Affinity Photo. Marco Kolditz shows you where to find the tools and functions. You're also sure to pick up some valuable tips and tricks that you can incorporate into your workflow in the future.

Get to know the various tools and cropping techniques

Marco Kolditz explains how to work with drawing pens, QuickMask and paint brushes, channels, blending options, clipping masks and the background eraser in Affinity Photo. Using specific examples, you will learn which challenges can arise during cropping and how to overcome them.

Master every motif!

During the tutorial, your trainer will lay out a wide variety of images with monochrome and textured backgrounds. In this way, you will learn how to approach different subjects and which cropping technique is best suited to what. The following cropping techniques are covered, among others:

For example, for product advertising: cropping objects with clear curved and straight edges (such as headphones and transparent glasses)
The classic: cropping portraits of people and photos of animals, including: detailing and refining hair and fur
Unusually challenging: How to crop lights, water splashes and smoke to use the elements as effects, for example
Helpful: Learn how to replace skies in photos and crop signatures that you can use for digital documents

Tips and tricks for cropping with Affinity Photo

Your trainer Marco Kolditz is a digital artist with many years of experience. Draw on his wealth of experience and take away helpful tips and tricks on all the cropping techniques and cropping in general :

You will learn which presets in Affinity Photo are useful for cropping. You will receive numerous tips on the different cropping options for pixel selection, paths and masks. You will also be invited to take part in instructive excursions in which you can, for example, draw additional strands of hair or harmoniously integrate a cropped image into a new scene.

Brand new to the subject - clipping explained in brief

Cropping means that you select certain motifs in a picture in order to separate them from the other parts of the picture. In most cases, objects, people, animals or plants are removed from the background . The cropped elements can then be placed in front of other backgrounds or used in creative composings.

A procedure that is used in pretty much all fields in which photo and image processing plays a role. For example, products need to be placed in (new) scenes or portraits of company employees need to be placed in front of the same background. You can also use cropping to develop your creativity to the full in order to create spectacular image compositions from several image elements.

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Usable with: Serif Affinity Photo
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use

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Marco Kolditz

Marco Kolditz is a self-employed digital artist, editor and video trainer in Munich under the name MEER DER IDEEN. He also runs a blog magazine of the same name and a YouTube channel. In addition to video training for PSD tutorials, Marco Kolditz has already published numerous other video tutorials on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and written specialist articles on creative Photoshop composings for other specialist magazines such as DigitalPHOTO.

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