Wildlife Editing Example (Affinity Photo)

[@raymk]

Pretty sick, James You guys should make some tutorials teaching the principles and theories of photo editing to accompany the more practical tutorials like this.

[@NMalteC]

8:40 who do we bribe to ensure that with the next update "current layer AND below" is the DEFAULT for that brush?

[@MWRtelevision]

High pass sharpening trick really useful, thank you!

[@javiervvgarcia9650]

Nice presentation of a set of techniques and masks!!!!

[@markhemmingson7578]

Wow. Great video, James. Sums up a lot of the techniques you've been demonstrating and puts them into a really nice workflow. I like the way you placed the masks into groups of foreground and background. Watching your videos lately it's occurred to me that basically we're just dealing with colour, light and texture when editing our photos. Thanks for breaking things down so effectively.

[@macmcmillen6282]

As a wildlife photographer and new user of Affinity Photo, I really liked this video. Thanks for making this. One other thing I'd like to see is how to apply a watermark (logo or signature) to a photo using Affinity Photo. Thanks again!

[@MusicFreesYourSoul]

just make your signature or watermark and add it as a brush then stamp it on a pixel layer at the top of your photo/art and change the blend mode and reduce the opacity to something thats not too intrusive

[@wildlifebybrianhoule]

I concur! There are so many amazing videos for that other program to edit wildlife. I'm hoping to harness AP for my needs.

[@simon8723]

Great video. For nubbies like me, it’s most useful to see the capabilities and reasoning for the workflow you have show. Next edit, I’ll review this carefully so that some of this sticks in my brain.

[@OzarkBill]

Thank you for the video, sir. I've decided to leave the Adobe Evil Empire for good and have been researching Affinity Photo. This looks like something I could slide into very easily compared to what I was used to with CS6.

[@ndon85]

great video James, thank you

[@jessebernebel67]

Thanks for the tutorial! pretty easy workflow!!

[@mrdev9843]

Very professional presentation

[@jlgflash662]

Excellent ! ... BRAVO .

[@ianbrowne9304]

The best voice on KZbin ; well the best of the stuff I watch 😇 You always show something new/different for me to try , but I could not help thinking of those with little experience in this ''sport'' going "what ; hang on , go back , what!! , but how do he do that .............. " 😅 We have all been there even if I started learning mostly via paper books/magazines/trial and trial a error with PS7! Maybe next time you could show ways to remove that rather distracting highlight in the background ;) Always great watch you James ; thank you .

[@elizabethrussell4858]

Brilliant! a lot more depth to the final photos, thanks for this it had so many different techniques in it.

[@danielbrinnemancom]

Gives me ideas. Thank you. Why did you choose Monochrome in the High Pass setting?

[@JamesRitson]

I would say mostly habit, but it does have a functional purpose: it stops colour detail 'bleeding' through. You likely wouldn't notice any difference when using low kernel values (as seen in this video), but it's more about being methodical and ensuring the high pass filters won't have any influence on the colour.

[@danielbrinnemancom]

@@JamesRitson Is there any way to copy edits from one image to another or is that what the purpose of macros is there for? I know about LUTS. But is there a better option to mimic editing in Affinity Photo like is done in Lightroom where one selects Copy Settings, picking which ones, and applying them to the next picture in Develop or Photo personas? And are there macros that can be run in both personas while editing a picture of an abandoned rusty vehicle or aged barn?

[@JeffStudley]

@@danielbrinnemancomIf I've got a series of photos that I want to have a similar tone/feel, after doing initial edits on one I just copy and paste the layers to another photo that's in the Photo Persona. It's a bit more manual than the Lightroom feature, but it works.

[@sidetrackbeatz5431]

How do I get the …Output raw layer embedded to show . I don’t see it on mines

[@jacqueslauzon]

The result depends on what we want to obtain. What's interesting in this video are the techniques to use at different stages of the process. THANKS.

[@davidhodson5086]

I love you videos with the lack of any time wasting waffle. Really useful stuff.

[@sidetrackbeatz5431]

Thanks you for the techniques! Lol just my opinion before was better … but I do understand this video was about giving us more knowledge … great video

[@tbg3111]

wow!

[@johnclauder615]

Great, intresting and good to know ... but too complicated for my little brain !

[@frankiefalci8735]

there are simpler programs with better performance

[@lindakantes873]

Great video, way to complicated for me ... fed up trying ..

[@mikeleech4421]

I struggle to follow this, James is far to fast for me to follow and the results i see are not the same. What would really be helpful is a step-by-step text description of the steps being taken

[@charlesxix]

Thanks for the video but it seems a lot of work for little improvement.

[@simon8723]

Yeah. I’d likely just burn or dodge . Lots to unpack here.

[@harvardkarbodie]

Frankly I like the "Before" more than the "After" which I found too gaudy. But there are some interesting techniques involved, especially using the Bandpass filter four times like he did.

[@trevorcarpenter6678]

I too thought the finished article wasn't worth the effort. I would have probably ditched that before editing because it's just not sharp. In general a butterfly edit will take me at most two minutes with a much better result than that. Tutorial itself is a good educational tool teaching a lot of different functionality.

[@JamesRitson]

​@@trevorcarpenter6678 thanks for commenting. In reality, this workflow would likely only take a couple of minutes anyway (with macros and muscle memory). The important thing I wanted to communicate with this video was using a refined selection to create masks for the subject and background detail, in addition to combining other functionality to provide a sample workflow. The image is sharp (as the out of camera JPEG would corroborate), although it was taken with a 300mm and 2x teleconverter, so it does lose a little bit of that biting sharpness that the lens is renowned for. Affinity Photo's raw development doesn't perform any kind of sharpening, however, leaving it up to the user to add sharpening where they see fit. That's why the initial image looks comparatively soft compared to the typical starting point you would be used to, I suspect. I think I mention this near the start of the video.

[@mikehogan2829]

the picture was destroyed😮, the over exposure was enhanced instead to reduce it, and and ....sorry, but this is not how the butterfly should look like

[@frankiefalci8735]

I don't like it at all