Affinity Photo - creative image editing with overlays

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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