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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

Summary

In this chapter on creating images for social media, we first outlined the challenges involved in creating content for multiple platforms and different sizes for each type of graphic depending on their use. To compound the issue, the nature of social media often requires us to respond quickly to evolving events so that we can capitalize on public engagement.

To meet this challenge, we looked at features built into Photoshop that deliver high-quality imagery with short project timescales while managing dozens of images with identical content that is subject to constant changes. First, artboards allow us to create a single document with multiple pages, where assets are just a click away and easy to duplicate.

We also looked at infusing brand colors into layers such as logos to provide flexibility and maintain legibility. By applying multiple layer effects, such as color overlays, we can simply turn on or off a specific color. We also applied gradient overlays to background...