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Contents
Introduction
What is Affinity Photo?
Features
New features in v1.9/1.10
About Personas
User interface
Interface Visual Reference
Toolbar
Persona Toolbar
Context toolbar
Get started
App registration and content syncing
Open documents and images
Opening a raw image
Scanning images
Create new documents
New from clipboard
Viewing
Zooming
Document templates
Pan/Scroll the Document view
Save
Editing files in other Affinity apps
Using assets
Develop Persona (Raw)
Developing raw images
Using overlays
Basic panel
Tones panel
Details panel
Lens panel
Overlays panel
Focus panel
Snapshots panel
Location panel
Sizing, cropping and warping
Changing image size
Pixel Art resizing
Changing canvas size
Cropping and straightening
Mesh warping
Perspective
Rotate/flip the canvas
Layers
About layers
Creating layers
Layer opacity
Layer blending
Layer blend ranges
Adjustment layers
Using Live Filters
Fill layers
Pattern layers
Snapshot layers
Image layers
Layer masks
Layer colors
Layer operations
Viewing
Selecting
Transforming
Rotating and shearing
Flipping
Duplicating
Aligning
Layer clipping
Copying and pasting content
Spacing
Grouping
Linking
Merging and flattening
Ordering
Targeting
Isolating
Finding
Locking
Rasterizing
Tagging layers
Selections
Creating pixel selections
Overview
By painting
By flooding
By drawing
By range
By luminosity
From channels
From layers
From shapes
From a sampled color
Using a marquee
Modifying pixel selections
Moving and transforming pixel selections
Edit selection as layer using Quick Mask
Refining pixel selection edges
Creating outline selections
Saving and loading selections
Retouching
Removing Red Eye
Retouching
Removing blemishes
Cloning and healing
Inpainting
Patching
Frequency Separation
Adjustments
Applying adjustments
Tonal adjustments
Color adjustments
Other adjustments
Exporting custom adjustments as 3D LUTs
Filters and effects
Applying filters
Blur filters
Color filters
Distortion filters
Edge detection filters
Noise filters
Sharpen filters
Apply Image
Shadows / Highlights
Lighting
Haze Removal
Using plugins
Placing external content
Embedding vs linking
Placing content
Resource Manager
Using stock photos
Panorama Persona
Stitching Panoramas
Editing Panoramas
HDR
32-bit HDR editing
Merging to 32-bit HDR
Tone mapping HDR images
32-bit OpenEXR support
Using OpenColorIO
Stacking
Image stacks
Exposure merging using stacks
Object removal using stacks
Noise reduction using stacks
Creative effects using stacks
Astrophotography Stack Persona
About astrophotography stacking
Creating an astrophotography stack
Files panel
RAW Options panel
Stacking Options panel
Compositing narrowband images
Focus merging
Focus merging images
Focus merge source cloning
Live projection
Equirectangular projection
Perspective projection
Macros & batch jobs
Macros
Batch jobs
Liquify Persona
Warping using Liquify Persona
Masking in Liquify Persona
Brush panel
Mask panel
Mesh panel
Painting and erasing
Painting brush strokes
Erasing
Mixing paint colors
Replacing colors by brush
Pixel-aligned painting
Creating custom pixel brushes
Modifying brushes
Layer effects (FX)
Using layer effects
3D Effect
Bevel/Emboss
Color Overlay
Gaussian Blur
Gradient Overlay
Inner Glow
Inner Shadow
Outer Glow
Outer Shadow
Outline
Color
About color
Color models
Color spaces
Color management
Sampling (or picking) colors
Selecting colors
Color chords
Gradient editing
Matting
Using channels
Vector-specific
Global colors
Spot colors
Overprinting
Lines and shapes
About lines and shapes
Draw lines and shapes
Edit vector lines and shapes
Transforming curves and shapes
Selecting and aligning nodes
About geometric shapes
Draw and edit shapes
Joining shapes
Converting to curves
Styles
Text
Working with text
Importing text
Artistic text
Frame text
Shape text
Text on a path
Character formatting
Paragraph formatting
OpenType font features
Special characters and glyphs
Spelling
Text styles
Using text styles
Creating and managing text styles
Removing text styles
Text style types
Sharing
Export
Print
Share
Export Persona
Exporting using Export Persona
Export Options panel
Slices panel
Layers panel
Design aids
Using undo, redo and history
Using snapshots
Ruler and column guides
Margins
Rulers
Dynamic guides
Rotate canvas
Snapping
Curve snapping
Construction snapping for curves
Force Pixel Alignment
Grids
Isometric and axonometric grids
Assistant Manager
Vector content defaults
Workspace
About workspace modes
Changing the UI appearance
Accessibility
Customize
Keyboard shortcuts
Workspace
Tools panel
Toolbar
Tools
Photo editing tools
View Tool
Move Tool
Color Picker Tool
Crop Tool
Zoom Tool
Vector line tools
Pen Tool
Node Tool
Selection tools
Selection Brush Tool
Flood Select Tool
Marquee Selection Tools
Fill tools
Flood Fill Tool
Gradient Tool
Paint tools
Paint Brush Tool
Color Replacement Brush Tool
Pixel Tool
Paint Mixer Brush
Erase tools
Erase Brush Tool
Background Erase Brush Tool
Flood Erase Tool
Retouch tools
Dodge Brush Tool
Burn Brush Tool
Sponge Brush Tool
Clone Brush Tool
Undo Brush Tool
Blur Brush Tool
Sharpen Brush Tool
Median Brush Tool
Smudge Brush Tool
Healing Brush Tool
Patch Tool
Blemish Removal Tool
Inpainting Brush Tool
Red Eye Removal Tool
Vector shape tools
Rectangle Tool
Ellipse Tool
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Triangle Tool
Diamond Tool
Trapezoid Tool
Polygon Tool
Star Tool
Double Star Tool
Square Star Tool
Arrow Tool
Donut Tool
Pie Tool
Segment Tool
Crescent Tool
Cog Tool
Cloud Tool
Callout Rounded Rectangle Tool
Callout Ellipse Tool
Tear Tool
Heart Tool
Cat Tool
Text tools
Artistic Text Tool
Frame Text Tool
Warp tools
Mesh Warp Tool
Perspective Tool
Liquify tools (Liquify Persona)
Liquify Tools
Raw tools (Develop Persona)
Raw Tools
Export tools (Export Persona)
Slice Tool
Astrophotography tools
Bad Pixel Map Tool
Panels
32-bit Preview panel
Adjustment panel
Assets panel
Batch panel
Brushes panel
Channels panel
Character panel
Color panel
Effects panel
Glyph Browser panel
Histogram panel
History panel
Info panel
Layers panel
Library panel
Links panel
Macro panel
Metadata panel
Navigator panel
Paragraph panel
Scope panel
Snapshots panel
Sources panel
Stock panel
Styles panel
Swatches panel
Text Styles panel
Transform panel
Appendix
Supported file formats
Contacting us
Copyrights
Glossary
Importing Affinity add-ons
About Affinity add-ons
Extracting add-ons
Importing assets
Importing brushes
Installing fonts
Importing LUTs
Importing macros
Importing styles
Importing swatches palettes
Importing templates
Extras
Performance
Hardware acceleration
Benchmark
Third-party support
Using pen tablets
Using a trackpad
Using Apple Photos
Using Sidecar
Using Surface Pen
Using Surface Dial
Keyboard shortcuts
Preferences
Expressions for field input
Search
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