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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 Animated GIFs and Videos

Photoshop is one of the most powerful image editors around, and since the 2007 release of Creative Suite 3, it has also been possible to import and edit videos. You might be wondering why you would choose to edit videos in Photoshop when there are dedicated applications such as Premier Pro and After Effects. If you edit large projects containing a multitude of assets, it would be prudent to look to Adobe’s flagship video editing applications. However, if you need to combine a video clip with some text and an audio file to create a short sequence, then you may find comfort in Photoshop’s simplified workflows and familiar tools.

In the late 90s, Photoshop introduced the History panel, which provides access to your last 50 document states, rather like an undo panel. Using similar techniques, it became possible to capture layer states that included visibility, position, and opacity. Much like the hand-drawn frame animation of the early...