Stratos Agiani in today’s Affinity Photo free tutorial will show you 5 editing tricks with curves that will unlock your creative editing potential.

Curves is an amazing tool: it’s non destructive, it can fix contrast problems, it can create an amazing mood, it can emulate the filmic look and it can also be used for virtually infinite color grading variations.

But where do you start? How can you use it and why sometimes it is so damn confusing?

Today you will have your answers.

In this free Affinity Photo Tutorial Stratos Agiani will show you 5 step by step tricks and usages through practical examples, that will allow you to start using Curves for editing and color grading in no time.

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Stratos Agiani in today’s free Affinity Photo tutorial will show you how to create a cinematic edit using a RAW file!

Affinity Photo has an excellent RAW editing engine, that can create amazing photos at the right hands. Today we are going to see how someone can edit a RAW photo and create a cinematic landscape shot.I am going to show you how to edit, correct and color grade photos, for maximum impact.

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Stratos Agiani in today’s free Affinity Photo tutorial will show you how to create a cinematic black and white portrait, with special effects and lots of editing tricks.

Sometimes you need to create a black and white portrait but the conversion from a color photo might seem lacking. There is no visual punch, no drama and no character. The light is flat and the overall look looks meh.

So in today’s free Affinity Photo tutorial I am going to show you a series of techniques that you can use in order to retouch and transform your portrait photos into cinematic black and white masterpieces.

You will learn:   

• how to properly convert a color portrait into a black and white photo
• how to relight a photo and create a new lighting scheme
• how to add a realistic shallow depth of field effect
• and many more portrait editing tips and tricks

So watch today’s free Affinity Photo tutorial and learn how to turn transform your color portraits into black and white cinematic shots.

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In today’s free Affinity Photo tutorial, Stratos Agiani will show you how to remove sensor dust and retouch your landscape photos with amazing results, quickly and easy.

You go to a beautiful location and you take some interesting landscape photos with a large aperture. Then you come back to your pc and when you start culling your images you feel the horror! Black specs, spots and lines are ruining your photo across the frame. And the worst part? You cannot go back and repeat the photo session.

Don’t worry. Affinity Photo can help out. How? With its retouching tools. In this free Affinity Photo tutorial you will learn how to use these tools in order to transform your landscape ( or any other ) shots and save them from sensor and lens dust.

So watch the video and never miss another photo because of sensor dust!

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In today’s free Affinity Photo tutorial, Stratos Agiani will show you how to quickly enhance the sky on a portrait shot against a dull background in order to make it more dramatic and cinematic.

Cloudy days are amazing for portraits! They act like a huge softbox and allow the light to be super soft. But there is a problem.

If you shoot again a gray cloudy background your portraits might end up missing that wow factor. The white backdrop can be boring and unattractive.

This is why in this free Affinity Photo tutorial Stratos Agiani will show you how to overlay and combine the sky from a different photo and also how to quickly color grade the photo to get more dramatic and interesting results.

Watch the video to see the whole procedure in a step by step tutorial and learn how to elevate your portraits to the next level.

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