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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

Creating and managing brush tip presets

Most of the brushes you use in Photoshop derive from a single greyscale image. White regions of the source image become transparent, while darker shades of grey become brush marks that you can change the color of as required.

Creating a custom bird brush

Following are the steps for creating a custom bird brush:

  1. Go to FileOpen and browse to the 10-Brushes folder. Select Flock.jpg and then click Open. The image contains a flock of birds.
  2. Right-click on the Background layer under Layers and choose Convert to Smart Object from the list of options. Rename the layer to Source.
  3. Then go to ImageAdjustments Levels. Set the Shadow Input value to 14 and the Highlight Input to 230. This will turn the background into a bright white. Click OK when done.

Figure 10.1: Removing any background details to prevent them appearing in the brush tip

  1. Switch to the Rectangular Marquee tool from...