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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

Working with HDR images

Single-shot photos with a digital camera can sometimes lack the detail required to show the full luminance range, resulting in deep black shadow areas or blown-out white highlights. HDR images preserve light data closer to that perceived by the human eye. By combining several shots at different bracketed F-stops (exposures), you can create 32-bit images to keep incredible detail in your photographs.

Advice for shooting HDR source images

Although a growing number of DSLRs offer an HDR feature that captures several shots automatically, many cameras still require you to generate an HDR image by taking several shots of the same scene at different exposures, each capturing different light information. The challenge with this is movement, called ghosting, between each shot. To give yourself the best chance of capturing several shots and with minimal ghosting, use a tripod. Keep the aperture setting constant throughout each shot or you will risk altering the...