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Any ideas for well done tutorial videos on Affinity Photo?

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Go to their website.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Youtube has a ton of them, but not that many are well done. This is also true of PS. Since Affinity does about everything PS does, you can pretty much watch PS tutorials and apply them to Affinity. Many Affinity videos have severe English accents, which bothers me a lot because I'm hard of hearing, and accents make it worse. The other thing I noticed is lots of tutorials are OK, but the editing they do make the photo look worse. This has nothing at all to do with the software abilities, but everything to do with the person on the keyboard abilities, or tastes, or something. PS tutorials are not like that, and generally the work displayed makes the photo look better. I dunno what this means. I use Affinity exclusively now, and have watched hundreds of tutorials on YouTube. You'd have to pick through them yourself to see what you need and like. Go to YouTube and do a search for Affinity, or Affinity color cast, or affinity selections, or affinity masks...

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Thank you.

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

An excellent course, particularly for beginners, is "Affinity Photo: Solid Foundations" by Simon Foster, available on udemy.com. Udemy courses very frequently go on sale for $9 to $12 or so, thus no need to ever pay "list price." This course is constantly updated, and now includes 97 lectures amounting to about 13 hours of instruction, covering essentially every tool, setting, technique, etc. Learn this and you will know Affinity Photo.

Foster's other Affinity courses on udemy are excellent as well, focusing more deeply on subjects such as RAW development, landscape, portraits, etc. He also has free videos on You Tube if you wish to check out his style of teaching before purchasing an entire course.

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

Addendum: if you're interested, I just now received an email from udemy stating they're having a 24-hour "flash sale" Feb 18 (today) which you may wish to check out.

Schoee Loc: Europe

The Affinity Revolution ones are excellent. Many free on youtube and include exercise files. Some paid courses too but so much free stuff you need not pay.

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

A final suggestion is to make sure that whatever source you chose for learning, is updated for your version of Affinity, which should be version 1.9 given that all updates have been free.

A few things work differently from version to version, and each version has added significant improvements which you won't learn about if you're watching outdated videos.

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David,
Thanks much for your suggestions; I'm going to order today!
Bill

Schoee Loc: Europe

Affinity Revolution even has a video specifically addressing the latest update. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oar7g0H18s4

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Thanks!
Bill