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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

A4 poster document

building 149-152

adjustment layers

color and tonal editing with 58

color casts, removing 61

color matching, methods 64-66

hue of multiple subjects, altering 62

quick tonal editing with 59, 60

working 59

Adjustments panel 10

Adobe Bridge

installing 373, 374

Adobe Express

used, for scheduling posts 203-206

Adobe Firefly 6-8

Adobe fonts

synchronizing 254, 255

Adobe PDF

documents, exporting to 168

Adobe stock contributor

reference link 102

AI, project-specific assets

creating and editing 411

hands, isolating from shot 411-423

animated GIFs

exporting 242, 243

limitations on social media 211, 213

animated GIFs creation

animation document, defining 213

brand colors, adding 214-216

frame animations...