Blur Backgrounds Like a Pro with Affinity Photo 2
In today's Affinity Photo 2 tutorial, we'll take an image with a deep depth of field and simulate a shallow depth of field by blurring the background. Techniques used include inpainting brush tool, clone tool, gaussian blur, background removal, refine tool, brighten contrast and more.
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This channel is designed for people who want to be able to learn Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo to create fun projects for personal use or to make money on the side. We'll try to show basic concepts that beginners can use right away to edit and improve their photos, make greeting cards, logos, business cards, promotional images, yard signs, flyers, invitations, artwork, YouTube Banners and Profile Pictures and a variety of other fun or lucrative projects.
This affinity photo tutorial is for amateur photographers who want to learn professional editing techniques.
I try to go over as many topics as I can in a concise and easy to understand way. Included in the many topics are: how to blend images in Affinity Photo, blending modes Affinity Photo, isolating images Affinity Photo, photo manipulation, painting, plug ins features, removing backgrounds Affinity Photo, working with perspective Affinity Photo, working with layers in Affinity Photo, how to use masks in Affinity Photo, enhancing RAW images in Affinity Photo, recording macros, special effects, lighting effects, working with curves, color adjustments, distorting images, colorizing photos, imbedding images into text, imbedding images into shapes, creating logos, removing blemishes, removing anything from pictures, making tee shirts, compositing, making greeting cards, making green screens, how to find free images, free music, free vector files, creating brushes, how to bend text around a curve and so much more.
I also will try to cover Affinity news and updates to new features, content and add-ons.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Inpainting Brush/Clone Stamp
01:13 - Isolating Duke
02:21 - Issues blurring background
02:36 - Blurring background
03:11 - Inpainting Foreground
03:49 - Removing Remnants
05:08 - Darkening background
05:23 - Shameless ask for likes, subs and caffeine
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