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Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2024

By : Gary Bradley
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2024

By: Gary Bradley

Overview of this book

Unlock the full potential of Photoshop, the go-to app for content creators by mastering its complex tools and features. This book quickly builds on your existing Photoshop knowledge with proven industry techniques, serving as a launchpad to develop professional skills and transformative personal growth. You’ll start by fine-tuning color and tone in your images with non-destructive adjustment layers and conceal content like backdrops with precise masking techniques for fine details like hair. Working through a series of real-world editing projects, crafting realistic brand mockups and traditional marketing collateral, you’ll learn robust methods for building social media assets in Photoshop, from images to animated GIFs and videos. You’ll also be able to bring your typography to life with styles and effects that are simple to edit and store as preset effects. The final section of the book encapsulates all of your learning to create complex montages using advanced masking and compositing techniques. You’ll have fun elevating your designs with surreal art styles and conceptual imagery using retouching, blending, and liquify filters. By the end of this Adobe Photoshop book, you’ll soar to new heights with your designs, creating captivating visuals that leave a lasting impression on your audience.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1:Raising Your Photoshop Game
5
Part 2:Bringing Brands Front and Center
10
Part 3:Building Visual Components
14
Part 4:World Building

Bringing Typography to Life with Effects and Styling

Effects can be used to add a simple drop shadow or stroke outline to make types stand out against a busy background. They can also be combined and even stacked together to create stunning designs such as molten lava or blocks of ice, all of which can be edited and saved for later use in other documents. In this chapter, you will explore a variety of effects and workflows that can bring your designs to life.

We will start by slicing editable types in half with Smart Objects and layer masks. After, we will create a classic paper emboss effect using a single layer group and stacked layer styles that transform the look of any layer added to it.

The most challenging exercise of this chapter will involve creating a faux 3D effect, where the editable type will be distorted to create paper cut-out letters and folds while we keep the type layers editable.

In the second half of this chapter, we will focus on painterly effects, starting...