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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

Creating new documents for screen and web

In the previous chapter, we looked at the challenges involved in managing print projects. Whilst we don’t have to furnish our web projects with bleed, trim, and other print characteristics, we are required to manage a sizable number of images, each with specific sizes for a multitude of platforms. The challenge here is the impact of repetition. The same artwork you use for Twitter, recently rebranded as ‘X’, will need to be adapted for LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook, and so on. What might seem like a minor text edit in a single file for print now becomes a time-consuming ripple effect across dozens of graphics. This calls for an organized approach and smart workflows.

Historically, Photoshop was only capable of producing a single page of artwork in each document, limited by its canvas. But with the release of CC2015, Adobe introduced artboards, allowing for multiple pages. Initially, artboards were intended to address...