Affinity Photo for Beginners - Complete Course 

A lot of people are going to be wanting to learn Affinity, and this video is a huge help.

I’ve just been clicking things and figuring out what they do until now 😂 literally the BEST in-depth tutorial ever! You don’t over explain and I swear I learned so much. Thank you a million times ❤

Adobe helped this wonderful channel a lot ;)

I dumped my photoshop (for 25 years) this week and bought Affinity, so this is great!

This is FANTASTIC. One of the best tutorials I have ever seen. No fluff, no screwing around - you get right to the point. I learned so much in so short a time.

I've been using Affinity Photo / Design for YEARS and have always struggled to find a solid channel for tutorials. You earned a new sub with this. Solid information, a lot I already knew - some things I learned for the first time. And you did it with some humor. All around - solid content. Looking forward to more Affinity stuff from you!

Perfect for migrating from Photoshop ... excellent presentation

Amazing how many people have left Adobe and moved over to Affinity products. I used Adobe for many years even back in the days of PageMaker and early Photoshop and had to find a less costly and more practical solution for my purposes. Affinity has filled the void perfectly with only a slight learning curve. Thanks for the great video.

I have only just found you, and I am truly impressed, it's not often that you get someone teaching with a sense of humour as well ( I taught systems for over 30 years (I'm 72 now and still learning!!) and it was not always appreciated when I joked about a bit, like putting my boss in a sports car and zooming through five or six Powerpoint slides). Carry on making me laugh or smile and I'll watch all of your videos. I was a Photoshop teacher for many years so I thought this would be hard to crack but you explain it all so well, I'm sure I'll pick it up quickly. Well done

I used to use Affinity Photo v1 years ago, but was never great at it. Took a few years off from photography and just downloaded 2.0. Man, was I lost! I looked at 3 or 4 tutorials before this one, and quit all of them, some after less than a minute, until I found yours. Very impressive video! I learned something I was trying to figure out in the first 5 minutes (I screwed up the pallets on the right and didn’t know how to restore them). I’ve saved this to my iPad to refer back to often. Very well done. Now I’m off to see what other great stuff you offer 😉

Excellent instruction technique. Photo manipulation is a new hobby for me and I've been using AF for about 2 weeks. Your "executive summary" course and teaching style have shown me many things that I will be doing much better from now on.

Goodbye Adobe, hello Affinity! Great video! Thanks for helping me get up to speed!

You are an absolute gem of a human being! I've only been using the blend mode from a cool textured background with an empty mask on the top layer to use the brush tool to give a unique texture to the "main" part of my thumnail when painting it back in like you showed how to do in your vinyl cover tutorial. Thank you for making a full on beginners guide my friend! Now I can hopefully have the tools to experiment more and make awesome thumbnails.

Wow this is the most straight forward tutorial there is. I have looked high and low for this type of tutorial. No fluff just the facts .. perfection. I am now a fan and will binge watch your channel. 🎉❤❤

I'm using Affinity for 3 years and it great. I've forgotten about Photoshop.

This is by far the best introduction instruction for Affinity Photo. You are an excellent instructor. Great explanations, examples and pacing. Thank you!

Thanks! Just watched the entire video and did the exercises myself too.

Thanks so much for this beginner's inclusive tutorial. It made a lot of concepts that have found challenging seem more understandable. I'm sure I will be referring back as I continue to learn.

The two claps before and after each cough 🤣🤣🤣 I sure hope you are feeling better! Thanks so much for a great tutorial. I've been using Designer for two years and I'm just now jumping into A-Photo.

I was looking for an alternative to PS which I could buy rather than lease and found Affinity but from a previous poor experience with layers, I wasn't looking forward to the experience again. You gave a very lucid tutorial and I'm a lot more confident about the concept now. Thank you.

Great Video! I took my sweet time to start fiddling with affinity (breaking away from photoshop for my limited use) but you covered all the essentials and beyond in a great pace helped me to get it rolling. Thank you!!

This was amazing!! My Adobe sub finishes end of this month and after this video, I'm feeling much more confident about working in Affinity Photo. You are such a good teacher too. Thank you so much!!

Thank you so much for your help. I feel like I’ve learned everything from this 1 video, only plz don't stop making them ❤

This video has been truly amazing!

Absolutely wonderful course!!!!

Thank you for this video! Being new to Affinity Photo, this is just what I needed to help me get started.

Dude, THANK YOU! This was an EXCELLENT tutorial!

hey, great video you explained everything so simply and all the information just goes straight in,thanks for the help.

This was the tutorial I was looking for. Thank you!

Thank you for all your time and knowledge. This video helped fine tune my understanding of each thing

I’m a regular user of AP and thought I knew what I was doing after seeing your video I realised I need to review how I use it thanks for sharing.

thanks for sharing your knowledge, a great insight into getting started and its helped

This was excellent - I'm switching over to Affinity now, thank you.

love your skilled teaching style!

I just paid $88 and that includes taxes to Affinity for 3 pieces of software that I now have access to for life. I get both the Windows version and the Macos version. I am even going to run it in Linux under wine. Thank you for this video. No more monthly payments to a company that is going to invade my privace and make money from m y creations.

I was so bad at Affinity Photo that I was struggling to make glowing text for like 2 hours, but this tutorial has made stuff like masking, the inpainting brush, the healing brush, layers, selection, and such seem wayyy less intimidating and faster, I'm honestly very surprised with how much time you've probably saved me from just coming across issues and googling fixes or workarounds

I have Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer. Was thinking about getting Affinity photos and thought I'd check out some videos before my purchase. Well, you're actually teaching me some things that I can use in the other software! Thanks for being super informative while also not boring. I typically am ready to end it all after watching the usual long ass, winded, monotone teachers 😫 got yerself a new subscriber, buddy... don't know exactly why I went country in that last sentence🤷🏽‍♀️

Thanks Buddy For this Corse..Finally i start to invest my Time on the right place

You're such a great teacher, been lapping up your videos 😮 thank you! RIP Photoshop

This tutorial is insanely helpful thanks for that

I downloaded the Trial earlier today, and couldn't make sense of it, then I came across this Vid, now instead of dumping it, I am going to buy it. Many thanks

Hi I loved this video!!! I felt bad for you having the cough!!! I knew why you did the clapping! Non of those things bothered me!!! I've been using AP for a few years! But there was a few things that I was struggling with!!! You cleaned them up for me!!! New subscriber!!!

A big THANK YOU for this video! I was curious to see what AP has to offer and this helped a lot! :)

Thank you so~~~~~ much. Your video is truly amazing!!

Been using Affinity since 2019 and I learned something today!

Thank you for this great tutorial

Thanks for your hard work, time and generosity…I've subscribed

Great video and very helpful. Thanks!!

I just got the full Affinity suite, leaving Adobe.... This is great thank you so much!!!!

Best solution to the cold, is honey and lemon, spoon the mixture straight to the back of your throat. You may not like the taste, but its effective. And a lot of WARM, not hot, water. But drink the water on its own

Thank you very much. Great overview.

Thank you. I have just purchased affinity photo 2 a couple of days ago and didn't know where to start. I haven't used a photo editing program before. Somehow I stumbled across your video and found it so helpful. There is still a lot I don't understand but I now know some of the basics and where to start. I will look for more of your videos. Just wondering what would be the best for me to watch after this one. Thanks again. So helpful and easy for a beginner granny to follow.

Great video! Thank you! Just switched from Adobe

Wow! Excellent! Thank you!!

I'm glad I found your channel, this guide has been really insightful! 👍

Brilliant - learned loads.

Please consider selling this and your other tutorials as (paid for) downloadable lessons we can keep on our computers and simply pull it/them up and refer to them whenever we hit a problem. I can assure you, I won't be the only one buying.... You're the best out there!

Thank you for the time and effort you put into teaching us this! I for one know what it takes to put out a good video (actually I perhaps know but cannot execute yet)... But, coming from Photoshop, years ago....absolutely REFUSING to pay THOUSAND dollars a year...CRAZYNESS and you own nothing. So Affinity has been a blessing as I was making thumbnails in Davinci Resolve and Power Director and Photo Director.... Affinity has become popular because of the Adobe trying to get you to allow them access to all your creations was the straw that broke the camels back! So now, you my friend, will be inherently more popular and perfect timing, as you have a mellow, easy to follow way of instruction. Thank you

super course .thanks

So great! Thank you!

amazing tutorial! made me buy this after watching! (=

Nice timing and nice tutoriel, thanks 🙏🏻

Good video. Got a license for affinity photo 2 for just $35 and my my it was worth it.

I admire how you recorded this video with a cold. Keep going and I'm very excited to see more content from you. Thank you for helping me transition to Affinity Photo 2. 😁 Proverbs 20:4 (King James Version) "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." I just decided to share the verse from the Bible above because of how you did this video! 👑

Perfect ❤

Thank you so much for this video. I think this software can replace Photoshop for people who don’t want to pay a monthly fee and not into using plug-ins. ❤❤❤ This software can do so many things for a small cost. Well done. 😊

Excellent quick tutorial

Excellent tutorial, easy to understand and follow my only complaint being , I wish the cursor was larger and a bright green or yellow to pick it out quicker. Cheers Mal.

Thanks for this! I've been trying to use Photopea because I don't want Photoshop, but it's very buggy and slow, so I'm doing the free trial for Affinity and I think I'm going to buy it. I'm having a heck of a time doing basic things though, like making and saving a color gradient fill layer to use as a custom vignette, so I really need this video.

Excellent, Thank You

asi explican los buenos profesores, buen video y bien explicado, gracias

Thanks , I am new Affinity Photo . Very Good video

Thanks, I hope you are well.

Checkpoint: 56:21 So far this is really informative and cool. Thank you!

Great tutorial! Thak you. Hope you stopped your coughing! ;-)

Thank you very much 🙏🏽

awesome tutorial

Insta-Sub and Insta-like. Now I have to binge watch your channel.

Thank you very much Sir you are awesome

Nice!

Thanks bro very helpful - It didn't waste my time it was just very good learning - do you have a video for Affinity Designer as well ?

why don't you have more subs, you are awesome! thanks for this.

Very impressed with your presentation, would like to have the notes in pdf or similar format for easy reference

Super Helpful n New Sub!

Excellent video, you explained so much my head is spinning. My question, I still don’t understand why it’s important to create a document and does each image need to have its own document? How do I determine the size of the document to use? I have been using Affinity V2 for a few years now and have never created a document. Thank you for the help you provided today, I will definitely be trying some things, especially masks.

Excellent

Great! Thanks :)

I've just moved away from Photoshop and bought Affinity photo 2. At the price it's going for now it's a bargain. I'm done with Adobes greed. I have been looking for a good video to explain this software and this is by for the best I've came across. Many thanks for doing it. So easy to follow.

I was expecting this software to have subject selection and animation workspace. It´s the only thing that I´d need to leave ps. Great course thank you very much

Name this channel "affinity official" ❤

This is great thanks - somehow I lost the 'current layer and below option' - do you know how can find it again? thanks!! 😻

Great tutorial. Can you do a video on why and when you would choose Affinity Photo or Designer

Thanks!

Thanks for the info, very helpful, especially with the color wheel. Question, what is the purpose of creating a document? It sounds like a dumb question I’m sure. Thanks again.

In the case of architectural photography, I use layers and masks to bring in flash exposures to specific areas. Is Affinity capable of layering multiple images and syncing them for this process?

I am the Treasurer of the Cult of Affiniteee Pub Li Sherr, ALL HAIL!! Our Glorious Leader ALL HAIL!!! requests that you, Most Heroic Design Method, make a tutorial video about Affiniteee Pub Li Sherr ALL HAIL!!!! Thank you. 🎉 PS: but seriously though, LOVE THIS. How did you know I’ve been learning Affinity again after a couple of years of Pixelmator Pro.???However, Affinity’s UI feels to me like you need to hire a horse, a pack mule AND a native guide to navigate!!!!

Great video my friend... most will not know what the clapping meant... but seems you forgot too... :) Not an issue though... its real and non-obtrusive. Great intro to Affinity Photo.

Sold 😊

great for reference a I'm just revisiting graphics and know these things can be done but HOW? now i know

thanx