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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

Color and tonal editing with adjustment layers

The term color is self-explanatory, if not a little vague. After all, there are more than 18 quadrillion known colors. When we need to reference a specific color, such as one used for branding, there is usually an exact CMYK or RGB formula that describes it visually.

As far as editing in Photoshop is concerned, we can increase or decrease the intensity of a color with saturation or boost just low-intensity colors with something called vibrance. A hue is a pure pigment, unaltered by white to create a tint or a shade that darkens a hue by adding black.

Tone is a less commonly used term that means light. Photoshop commonly characterizes light in 256 grayscale steps from pure black to pure white. Regarding RGB, black has a value of 0 (red 0, green 0, blue 0), while white is defined as 255 (red 255, green 255, blue 255). It’s important to be aware of these numbers because Photoshop’s selection tools use them as a method...