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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

Blending and Collaging Images

Throughout this book, blending or masking has been a constant theme and an essential skill that allows you to hide unwanted content or combine multiple subjects into one composition. In this chapter, we’ll be taking that concept a little further.

First, we will take six photographs of a beach landscape and stitch them seamlessly as a panorama, getting Photoshop to do the heavy lifting for us, removing vignettes and transparent edges with Content-Aware Fill. You’ll also practice your healing and retouching skills as you remove all the tourists from the beach with the Healing Brush tool and the Clone Stamp tool.

We’ll then move on to collaging, where you’ll take source images of weathered posters, newsprint, and paint to recreate a portrait. This will involve the use of adjustment layers, smart objects, masks, and brushes.

You’ll then have the opportunity to create a double-exposure image, where two photos are...