Affinity Photo 2 User Guide

Affinity Photo 2 has a different logic than Photoshop. The persona system, the way adjustment layers interact with the stack, how RAW processing works before you ever touch a retouching tool. None of it is explained during installation. Most tutorials cover individual features in isolation without connecting them into a workflow that actually holds together across a full editing session.

This book is organized around how editing actually happens. You open a file, you work through a problem, you export. Every chapter follows that kind of logic rather than listing features in order of where they appear in the menu.

What you will learn:

• How to configure the workspace and preferences so the software stops fighting your habits
• How the persona system works and why getting it wrong slows everything down
• Layer organization methods that keep complex edits navigable from start to finish
• Selection and masking workflows that produce clean edges on hair, skin, and irregular subjects
• Portrait retouching using frequency separation without the plastic, over-smoothed result
• Clone, heal, and inpainting tools used in the right sequence for the right problems
• Color correction and white balance from a workflow perspective, not just slider definitions
• How adjustment layers should be stacked, clipped, and masked for clean non-destructive editing
• RAW processing in the Develop Persona including exposure recovery and lens correction
• Sharpening and noise reduction applied in the correct order with the correct tools
• Export settings for JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and PDF across web, print, and client delivery
• Specific Photoshop habits that break in Affinity and the direct replacements for each one