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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

Using brushes for retouching

We have already seen the flexibility of brushes in this chapter in terms of adding basic marks or painterly effects to images. However, brushes can also be used for retouching, and in the following exercise, you will create a snowflake brush and a stubble brush.

Creating a snowflake brush

Follow the steps given below:

  1. Go to FileOpen and browse to the 10-Brushes folder. Select Snow.jpg and Winter.jpg and click Open.
  2. With the document active, go to EditDefine Brush Preset. Name it Snow and click OK. Then, close the document.
Figure 10.20: The initial snow brush after capturing from an image

Figure 10.20: The initial snow brush after capturing from an image

  1. Click on the Snow brush, located at the bottom of the Brushes panel to make it active. Then, go to WindowBrush Settings.
  2. Switch to the Brush tool from the Tools panel. Set the Blend Mode to Normal, Opacity to 100%, and Flow to 85%.
Figure 10.21: The Brush tool options

Figure 10.21: The...