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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

Exporting and scheduling posts

When the demands of social media are time-sensitive, the last thing you will want is to waste valuable time saving artboards as separate files, choosing a directory to save them to, and naming them every time. The following techniques seek to avoid the time-consuming challenge of exporting to the web.

Batch export artboards

Photoshop has provided batch export options for decades, but with the advent of artboards, these long-standing features were unable to process these new multi-page designs. Thankfully, Adobe eventually added a set of scripts that could export all artboards in a single document:

  1. With the SM24 document open, go to FileExportArtboards to Files. When the dialogue appears, click on the Browse button, select the 06-Social folder, and click Open. The location will default to the folder the document has been saved to each time.
  2. Under File Name Prefix, set the current file to SM24, which is an abbreviation of “...