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How to combine and mask image layers in Affinity Photo 2

This photograph of a fishing boat on a shingle beach has nice colours and an interesting composition but a rather plain sky – so let’s try to replace it with a different sky in Affinity Photo.

Of course, there are many programs that can do this for you now using the power of AI, but you don’t always need artificial intelligence to combine images successfully, as a little human intelligence can do just fine. Besides, this is a chance to explore the many different masking tools in Affinity Photo,

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