Advanced?

Weird thread idea

What's weird on advanced stuff? 😅

The idea of having a Advanced Techniques Category could be used to share editing workflows with various photo editors.

Affinity Photo is an excellent photo editor but there are a plethora of ways to edit an image.

E.g. With AP its possible to improve the resolution of an image although unfortunately its not a one click operation. I have never done this before but was impressed with the results.

For those who are interested the following youtube video shows how to improve the resolution of a photo :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HpvJjyP3ig

To alter the resolution I tried :

• Resized the cropped image from e.g 2415 x 1932 to 5184 x 4148
  ( In general I prefer a crop ratio of 5 : 4 )

• Duplicated the image & ran 'Merge Selected' & 'Rasterise'

• In the Develop Persona

  • Basics
    Fractional adjustments to colours
  • Details
    Radius 4% - Amount 16%
  • Noise
    Luminance 28%
  • Curves
    Minor adjustments.
    Develop & exit Develop Persona

Then under Export its possible to resample the image with ‘Bicubic’ although there are other choices such as Bilinear, Lanczos separable & Lanczos non-separable.

I think in general its a good idea to be able to share such ideas & techniques as its part & parcel of a website community.

Wouldn’t that go in “post-processing software and techniques”? Specifically, the affinity photo sub-category that currently has zero posts?

Yes, your're quite right, it would be much better there & in fact probably better than the Affinity category which has not been started. Having them all together under one hat seems more practical.