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Applying standard filters

Applying standard filters

- Here's an old carpenter's workshop I photographed recently, and we're going to use Affinity Photo's filters to make this a more dramatic image. Affinity Photo has a number of filters that apply directly to the image, and you'll find these under the filter menu. These include blur filters, which allow you to add motion blur, radial blur, and other kinds of blur to your image. We'll look at some of these later on. There are sharpen filters that make the image more crisp. And there are various distortion filters (mumbles) perspective, twirl, and so on. I'll show you how it works with the spherical filter. When you bring it up, you don't see anything, and that's because the intensity is set to 0. If you drag this up to say 100 percent, right in the middle there, that is where the filter's taken place. We can increase the radius of this circle, and as we do so, you can see, as you'd expect, it gets bigger. You can pick this up and move it around wherever you like on the image, and the…

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