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Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2024

By : Gary Bradley
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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

Exporting documents for professional print

There are so many things to account for when outputting your artwork for hand-off to a print bureau. Managing the output process for this option is far more critical than output to the web, as mistakes here often cost time and money.

Exporting to Adobe PDF

By far the most flexible format to pass onto a third-party print provider, PDF has been the industry standard for many years. It preserves vector shapes and text layers:

  1. With the Zfold-Inner-01.psd document open, go to FileSave to ensure the master file (PSD) captures the latest edits. Then go to FileSave a Copy and choose Photoshop PDF from the format menu. Change the file name to Trifold-ProPRINT and browse to the 05-Print folder. Click Save.
  2. When the Save Adobe PDF dialogue box appears on screen, change the Adobe PDF preset to [PDF/X-4:2001] from the drop-down menu. This is the recommended option to pick when sending your artwork to a print bureau...