Affinity by Canva – Creative photo editing for photographers
This practical course introduces photographers to Affinity’s powerful photo editing environment, guiding you through creative adjustments, image refinement and expressive editing skills to bring your vision to life.
Learning modes and locations may be different depending on the course start date. Please check the location of your chosen course and read our guide to learning modes and locations to help you choose the right course for you.
Please note: We offer a wide variety of financial support to make courses affordable. Just visit our online Help Centre for more information on a range of topics including fees, online learning and FAQs.
This course is the ideal introduction to non-destructive image manipulation using Affinity Photo on the Canva platform, a free software to rival competitors such as Adobe Photoshop, providing full professional level image editing tools. Essential skills will be introduced and practiced, working towards a greater understanding of the main features of the program. The course also covers how to create and maintain an effective image filing system using free third-party software. The skills learned can be applied to most image editing programs.
What will we cover?
Introduction to the Affinity Photo Canva environment, tools and image editing
Importing images onto the computer
Making colour and tonal adjustments
Retouching and repairing photographs
Working with and manipulating layers
Saving images and file formats
Creating an effective image filing system
Defining, refining and editing selections
Applying special effects to digital images
Working with adjustment layers
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
Import, edit and output images to appropriate file formats
Manipulate and edit images using a variety of Affinity Photo features with Canva
Select and isolate specific areas of an image to apply a local edit
Apply colour adjustments to images
Combine several images together to produce a photomontage
Apply special effects using filters and styles
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
No prior knowledge of Affinity Photo or Canva in general is required, but you should know how to use a computer for word processing. If you know the basics of something like Photoshop this will help but is by no mean essential.
The course is taught on Apple Mac computers but once in the program, the difference between Mac and PC are very minor.
If you are new to using Apple computers you might find our course ‘An introduction to Apple Mac computers’ useful.
You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions, demonstrations, hand-outs and health and safety information, and will be invited to take part in group discussion. You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
The course structure consists of supervised practical workflow, discussions and step by step demonstrations. One-to-one guidance and support will be given throughout. Notes will be provided.
The course also uses Google Classroom (an online teaching resource) for you to share comments with your class, download course material and upload images for group crits.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Please bring some of your own photographs along on a memory stick. As one of the key features of Affinity is its ability to process RAW images, it would be preferable to bring along unprocessed RAW image files. Notes are provided and advice will be given on buying books and using the Internet as a resource.
Michael Harding was born in Canada, where he studied cinema and photography at Concordia University, Montréal, before moving to the UK. Since then, he has created striking images of architecture, art, people and landscapes for international blue-chip clients for their use in editorial, advertising and corporate applications. Michael’s work has won many industry awards, notably being selected in the Eleventh Association of Photographers Awards and further receiving a Merit Award in the Seventeenth Association of Photographers Awards. His work was selected for a Highly Commended Award in the Deutsche Bauzeitung “Visions in Architecture” European Architectural Photography prize. His work has been exhibited in both the United Kingdom and Canada. Michael has been Chairman, as well as President, of the Association of Photographers (AOP). The AOP is Europe’s most established organisation for professional photographers, working to ensure greater recognition for all professional photographers, as well as working to positively influence legislators in the UK and Europe for the benefit of all photographers.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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Notes will be provided.</p><p><br>The course also uses Google Classroom (an online teaching resource) for you to share comments with your class, download course material and upload images for group crits.</p><p>Please bring some of your own photographs along on a memory stick. As one of the key features of Affinity is its ability to process RAW images, it would be preferable to bring along unprocessed RAW image files. 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Essential skills will be introduced and practiced, working towards a greater understanding of the main features of the program. The course also covers how to create and maintain an effective image filing system using free third-party software. The skills learned can be applied to most image editing programs.</p><p>This practical course introduces photographers to Affinity’s powerful photo editing environment, guiding you through creative adjustments, image refinement and expressive editing skills to bring your vision to life.</p><ul><li>Introduction to the Affinity Photo Canva environment, tools and image editing</li><li>Importing images onto the computer</li><li>Making colour and tonal adjustments</li><li>Retouching and repairing photographs</li><li>Working with and manipulating layers</li><li>Saving images and file formats</li><li>Creating an effective image filing system</li><li>Defining, refining and editing selections</li><li>Applying special effects to digital images</li><li>Working with adjustment layers</li></ul><ul><li>Import, edit and output images to appropriate file formats</li><li>Manipulate and edit images using a variety of Affinity Photo features with Canva</li><li>Select and isolate specific areas of an image to apply a local edit</li><li>Apply colour adjustments to images</li><li>Combine several images together to produce a photomontage</li><li>Apply special effects using filters and styles</li></ul><p>No prior knowledge of Affinity Photo or Canva in general is required, but you should know how to use a computer for word processing. If you know the basics of something like Photoshop this will help but is by no mean essential.</p><p><br>The course is taught on Apple Mac computers but once in the program, the difference between Mac and PC are very minor.</p><p><br>If you are new to using Apple computers you might find our course ‘An introduction to Apple Mac computers’ useful.</p><p><br>You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions, demonstrations, hand-outs and health and safety information, and will be invited to take part in group discussion. You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations.</p><p>The course structure consists of supervised practical workflow, discussions and step by step demonstrations. One-to-one guidance and support will be given throughout. 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