Affinity Photo: Beginner's Basic Tutorial - How to get started

This Video covers the very basics of Affinity Photo. Where do you find Adjustment Layers and Filters? What are Masks and Layers and how do they work? What is the difference between pixels and vector? How do you know the right size of your image for print or screen? All in one easy to follow video to get you started.

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About Olivio Sarikas:
Mag. Olivio Sarikas is a professional Designer from Vienna Austria. He has been a passionate Artist for over 26 Years, starting at the age of 16 with his creative education. He studied at the University for fine Arts in Vienna and Munich and holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. He works as a self-employed Web & Print Designer. Occasionally he also gives Lectures on Marketing and Community Building at the local University.
Hi Channel focuses around tutorials for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher and occasionally other Software tools like Krita, Corel Software, the NIK Collection and more.
Olivio is famous for his "Secret Sauce", always trying to introduces some Pro Tricks into his tutorials and give a bit more background information. Also his "Creative Chats" are part of this channel, where he gives insights into the creative life and talks about how to improve your creative flow and realize your creative dreams to share them with the world.

[johnking]

One of the best explanations of Layers and masks I have seen

[peterbackhurst]

Hi Olivio
I have just discovered you on YouTube, What a blessing I am new to Affinity Photo, I was struggling a bit but you my friend have
made my day taking the mystery out of Affinity Photo, You are so clear with your instructions you are a wonderful Teacher
Thank you very much

[charlesmargrave]

Great beginning to your new series.
I am beyond basic learning of AP. However if you deliver forthcoming tutorials at this clip ( speed ) I will watch and benefit as a refresher of basics as well as always something new is learned.
Thank you for all your hard work in doing these tutorials.

[tokyoobro]

Great video Olivio. Thank you. I appreciate your clear and precise explanations.

[Eldalion]

I rarely commet, you sir are very good teacher, straight to the point, no infinite blablablah, cool way of explaining things. Subscribed

[malhamishery]

Just what I needed! Affinity is so feature rich, you can loose sight of forest through the trees. Thanks for simplifying this for me.

[markstorer]

Thanks Olivio, a really helpful video, I have gone with Affinity because it's an outright purchase rather than subscription service and your tutorial has been really helpful....I'll definitely subscribe and watch all your other Affinity videos 👍

[Jimgoodwin]

Thanks Olivio for a great video. I discovered you several years ago and at the time I thought you’re videos were too advanced for me. Since then I’ve discovered the beginners content was there all along I just didn’t know what to search for. I have always liked and appreciated your channel with clear and easy to understand explanations-this video has explained many of my questions. Thanks again.

[mikeg.]

Thank you very much for the video. Would be great to get these tutorials in a playlist.

[alainadamski]

Thank you Olivio, your advices are always welcome for beginners (like me) and for others too, for sure.

[dailydogsoftheinternet]

No dislikes, wow I have never seen a video without dislikes, congrats 🥳

[IAMRENSI]

Great video Olivio ! Including a very clear explanation of how layers and masks work !

[alexandervideo]

Excellent tutorial, your instructions and examples are a great help, your pace is perfect for beginners, thank you!

[chuckbame]

Thank you! I have been using Affinity for quite a while but I always learn something from your videos - even this basic one.

[RMDGAMER]

Hi Olivio,

I have an idea for some YouTube videos Affinty photo has got a lot of tools / options and a lot of us don’t always know what they are and what they are used for, so my suggestion is to get the community involved by every picking a tool / option that they don’t know what it does,
and the one with the biggest demand do a ten minute to 20 minute video on how to use it etc.

You could call the video series teaching Tuesday 😉 also putting a link to a google doc with a list of the videos that have already been done with a hyperlink to each video for easy reference.

I love your teaching style and you make every feel at ease thank you for all of the content you have done for us all Olivio.

[brunocena]

plsss make a complete tutorial series for affinity photo, designer and publishers, as many of the people are shifting from Adobe to Affinity products, I believe affinity hv a potential to take the throne, n will b the new king of choice for the designers

[rfrancett]

Thank you, Olivio. This was excellent, made many things very clear. A great beginning for me!

[dheatherington]

It is great to have refreshers of simple skills though the Affinity team do a good job with their tutorials. There is so much to learn about the Affinity Suite and sometimes you need to be reminded and have tutorials dedicated to basic skills like masks. I guess if I go back through Olivio's tutorials they will be there already.

[annewatman]

I seem to love anything you do! I don’t really need a Beginners Tutorial, but I’ll definitely recommend this!

[windsurfer]

Very nice tutorial! Great explanations with super understandable illustrations. Stoked for more!