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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

How to approach a surrealist art project

Surrealist art emerged in the early 20th century as a movement that sought to explore the realms of the subconscious and challenge conventional notions of reality. Influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories on the unconscious mind, surrealist artists aimed to unleash their creative potential through dreamlike imagery, unexpected juxtapositions, and unconventional techniques.

Surrealist art often features bizarre, irrational, and fantastical elements that aim to provoke thought and tap into the viewer’s subconscious. It seeks to transcend rationality and embrace the power of imagination, symbolism, and the unexpected. Surrealist artworks evoke a sense of mystery, ambiguity, and psychological depth, inviting viewers to interpret the works in their own subjective and personal ways.

Building these dreamlike, imaginary worlds will require us to implement everything we’ve learned so far in this book. In previous chapters, we...