PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

Portrait perfection

When it comes to editing portraits, a few simple techniques can take your image in all kinds of interesting directions. In this project we’ll explore a range of edits you can make in Affinity Photo. Most of these are carried out in the Develop Persona, which is the workspace for RAW editing. This is the place to process and enhance your raw photos before – if necessary – taking them into the main Photo Persona for further editing.

Straight out-of-camera RAW filesRAW tools in the Develop Persona lack the depth of features in the Photo Persona, there are still several powerful features like Curves and Overlays. We can use these to enhance our portrait, make local adjustments and to boost the colours.

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