Affinity Essentials Lesson 3: Pixel Studio

Editing images with Affinity’s Pixel Studio

Ready to take control of your photo editing workflow? In this lesson, you’ll explore Affinity’s Pixel Studio — the home of its powerful image editing tools — and learn how to move from quick fixes to intentional, refined edits.

You’ll start with essential adjustments like cropping and straightening, then remove distractions with inpainting. From there, you’ll build depth and focus using global adjustments, targeted color work, and painted refinements, before finishing with subtle filters.

Lesson objectives

By the end of the lesson, you’ll be able to:

• crop and reframe images for stronger composition
• remove distractions using inpainting
• apply global, targeted, and painted adjustments with control
• use the Adjustment Brush for precise, localized edits
• enhance images with subtle, well-placed filters
• export your final image for digital use

Lesson resources

Before you begin, make sure you’ve downloaded Affinity and logged in using your Canva ID. You’ll also want to download the Lesson 3 source file to follow along.