Introduction to Affinity Photo
Course 2: Image Manipulation: General cuts
By Carlos Jimenez Varela , Photographic Composition Specialist
About the video: General cuts
Overview
“You will learn the concept of Aspect Ratio or Canvas size and how to crop or adapt photographs to different sizes using the crop tool: Crop Tool. ”
In this video lesson Carlos Jimenez Varela addresses the topic: General cuts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Image Manipulation. Learn the basic tools and start editing your photos.
Partial transcription of the video
“AFFINITY PHOTO FROM ZERO / COURSE 2 LESSON 2 General cuts We will learn how general cutouts are made in our photos using Crop Tool. Let's see. Here we are on the Affinity Photo home screen. As I told you a few lessons ago, I said we would go back to creating a new document. Basically it is that when you want to start a new project, composition or photomontage, one starts and defines the dimensions that the document will have at the beginning. We click here, on New Document, will open this configuration palette, where we determine questions as the size of our canvas or canvas, where we will ...”
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Course summary for: Course 2: Image Manipulation
Carlos Jimenez Varela
By Carlos Jimenez Varela
Carlos Jiménez is a Costa Rican native who has held the position of creative director at various advertising agencies for over fifteen years, although his academic background is in graphic design. Passionate about photomontage, he believes it to be a precise form of graphic expression able to bring us closer to both the dream world and the subconscious. He has worked for renowned studios like Sane Seven (UK) and Sagmeister & Walsh (New York).
Despite not considering himself an Adobe Photoshop virtuoso, he undoubtedly handles the program with an expert touch and has used it professionally for more than twenty years. He trusts that he must be constantly learning and updating his skills along with the software, and believes that others should strive to do the same.
His work has been published on various design blogs as well as in renowned magazines like Lürzer's Archive on more than one occasion. He has also exhibited his work in galleries in a number of countries around the word such as Spain, Morocco, France, Brazil, and more. He has participated in various exhibitions for international festivals and design biennales in Ecuador and Poland, to name just two. He currently has more than thirty national and international prizes and awards in creativity and design.
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