The Canon Magazine 63
AFFINITY LANDSCAPE TIPS
AFFINITY PHOTO
VIDEO ALSO ONLINE
http://bit.ly/pp_160_7STEP BY STEP TIPS TO MAKE YOUR LANDSCAPES POP
Take your landscapes to the next level with this selection of techniques
01 BOOST THE TONES
Whether editing a Raw or a JPEG, the best place to
begin enhancing tone and colour is the Develop
Persona. Use the panel on the right to boost Contrast,
Clarity and Saturation. Next click the Tones tab and go
to Curves. Plot an S-shaped curve to add some punch.03 DODGE AND BURN
Hit the Develop button to fix the changes and enter the
Photo Persona. Hit Cmd/Ctrl+J to copy the layer and
get the Dodge tool. Set Range: Highlights, then paint to
lighten the highlights on rocks. Switch to the Burn tool
and set Range: Shadows then darken the rock furrows.05 CROP IN TIGHTER
A tighter crop will help our composition. Grab the Crop
tool from the toolbar then go to the Overlay dropdown
at top right. We can choose from helpful overlays like
the ‘Rule of Thirds’ to aid our cropping by moving
points of interest at the intersections of the lines.02 ADD DRAMA TO SKIES
Skies often benefit from a darkening and an increase
in contrast. While still in the Develop Persona, click the
Overlays tab, then the gradient icon. Drag down from
sky to land to add a pink overlay. Next, click Basic then
lower Exposure and Highlights, and increase Contrast.03 RETOUCH DISTRACTIONS
Details that distract from your scene can be removed
using the Inpainting tool in Affinity’s Photo Persona.
Grab the tool from the toolbar, then click the Add Pixel
layer icon in the Layers panel. Set ‘Current and Below’.
Paint over distractions like the trees at the edge here.06 ENHANCE DETAIL
Press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to merge all the layers
into a new layer, then click the Tone Mapping Persona.
In the panel on the right set Tone Compression to 0
then check Detail Enhancement. Set Amount to 50%
then up the Radius until details look sharper.NEXT MONTH
CLEAN UP
NOISY IMAGESTHE OVERLAY
FEATURE
The Overlays feature in
Affinity Photo’s Develop
Persona is a powerful
tool for making local
adjustments to your Raw
files. First we make a
new overlay by choosing
to either paint one with
the Brush tool, or apply a
gradient overlay as we’ve
done here. Then – with
the overlay highlighted –
we can go into the other
tonal panels to change
the affected area. Once
done, we need to go back
to the Overlays panel and
highlight the ‘Master’
overlay to continue
working on the image.VIEW^ TH
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