Bradley Gary / Брэдли Гэри - Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2024: Discover the smart way to polish your digital imagery skills by editing professional looking photos / Осваиваем Adobe Photoshop 2024 [2024, PDF, EPUB, ENG]

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Preface xiii
Part 1: Raising Your Photoshop Game
1
Making Photoshop Work Harder and Smarter 3
Technical requirements 4
Updates and new features 4
Contextual Task Bar 4
Adobe Firefly 6
The Remove tool 8
Adjustment presets 10
Creating a bespoke workspace 11
Modifying panels 12
Customizing the Tools panel 15
Saving a custom workspace 17
Modifying keyboard shortcuts and menus 18
Modifying preferences 20
Defining color settings 26
Quality-first approach 28
Image quality 29
Calculating PPI in Photoshop 30
Summary 31
2
Non-Destructive Healing and Retouching 33
Technical requirements 33
Cropping and straightening images and extending the canvas 34
Straightening a crooked image 34
Cropping images 36
Extending the canvas with content-aware cropping 38
Quickly cropping tips 40
Content-aware scale 42
Healing and retouching 44
Nondestructive workflows 44
Remove cables from a photo 44
Removing large blemishes with Content-Aware Fill 46
Bending subjects with Puppet Warp 48
Removing unwanted content
with the Clone Stamp tool 52
Adding smiles to portraits
with Face-Aware Liquify 54
Portrait retouching 56
Color and tonal editing with
adjustment layers 58
How adjustment layers work 59
Quick tonal editing with adjustment layers
and blend modes 59
Removing color casts 61
Altering the hue of multiple subjects 62
The simplest method for color matching 64
Summary 66
3
Masking and Cutouts 67
Technical requirements 67
Applying and editing a basic layer
mask 68
Using masks to cut out image backgrounds 70
Applying masks to adjustment layers 72
Blending multiple images with a layer mask 74
Masking with Blend If 76
Creating distressed photo edges 79
Masking hair 82
Unlinking images and masks 88
Masking layer groups 90
Working with vector masks 92
Creating an editable vignette with a vector mask 92
Creating a typographic mask effect 94
Summary 97
Part 2: Bringing Brands Front and Center
4
Building Brand Mock-Ups and Prototypes 101
Technical requirements 102
Applying branding to perspective 102
Adding a logo to a bag in perspective 103
Creating a mural mock-up 107
Wrapping artwork around curved
surfaces 112
Applying a cylinder warp 113
Warping artwork across book designs 115
Replacing device screens with your
own artwork 124
Creating an iPad mock-up 124
Creating a smartphone mock-up 126
Adding screen reflections 128
Creating clothing and soft furnishing
mock-ups 130
Applying original designs to a T-shirt 130
Adding pattern designs to a cushion 134
Summary 143
5
Creating Printed Marketing Collateral 145
Technical requirements 146
Creating new print projects 146
Color 146
Printers’ marks 146
Folds 148
Setting up a Photoshop grid system 149
Building a new A4 poster document 149
Creating a new business card template 153
Building a new z-fold brochure 154
Importing artwork
and formatting types 156
Creating a business card design using only
vector assets 156
Synchronizing fonts from Creative Cloud 159
Adding a type to the z-fold brochure 160
Creating and applying paragraph styles 162
Adding artwork to the brochure 164
Exporting documents for
professional print 168
Exporting to Adobe PDF 168
Export to the Tag Image File Format 168
Saving as a JPG 169
Summary 170
6
From Pixels to Post: Images for Social Media 171
Technical requirements 172
Creating new documents for screen
and web 172
Creating artwork for Facebook 174
Creating artwork for Twitter 176
Creating artwork for Instagram 178
Creating artwork for Pinterest 181
Creating artwork for LinkedIn 181
Social media sizes 184
Working with artboards 185
Adding a header image 189
Creating a tweet template 190
Adding text to the artboard 194
Duplicating artboards 196
Exporting and scheduling posts 200
Batch export artboards 201
Scheduling posts with Adobe Express 203
Summary 206
7
Creating Animated GIFs and Videos 207
Technical requirements 208
The Timeline panel 208
Video groups 209
AV file formats accepted by Photoshop 211
Video and GIF limitations on social media 211
Creating animated GIFs 213
Defining a new animation document 213
Adding brand colors, logos, and text 214
Creating frame animations 217
Creating tween animations 219
Working with video and audio in
Photoshop 225
Creating a new document intended for video 225
Adding media to the timeline 226
Applying transitions to footage 228
Placing and animating an Adobe Illustrator
logo in the timeline 229
Adding a soundtrack to the timeline 232
Creating videos from still images and
text 232
Setting up a duplicate document 232
Importing and animating an image 233
Copying and pasting keyframes onto the
second clip 235
Copying and pasting keyframes onto the
third clip 236
Adding titles to the sequence 238
Exporting animations and video
from Photoshop 242
Exporting animated GIFs 242
Exporting video 244
Summary 245
Part 3: Building Visual Components
8
Bringing Typography to Life with Effects and Styling 249
Technical requirements 250
Understanding typographic terms
and principles 250
Synchronizing Adobe fonts 254
Creating cut and fold effects 256
Creating sliced text 256
Creating an embossed type 259
Creating cut and fold effects 267
Applying ink and paint effects 277
Creating dripping paint 278
Creating a graffiti typographic effect 282
Summary 288
9
Creating Textures, Patterns, and Backdrops 291
Technical requirements 292
Creating new textures, gradients,
and patterns 292
Creating a texture from scratch 292
Creating an atmospheric gradient backdrop 299
Creating pop art-inspired artwork with
custom patterns 301
Managing backdrop assets 305
Syncing your assets between devices 305
Importing and exporting assets 306
Simulating environments
with filters and effects 307
Summary 314
10
Creating and Applying Brushes 317
Technical requirements 317
Creating and managing
brush tip presets 318
Creating a custom bird brush 318
Modifying brush properties 322
Applying brushes for creative effect 332
Using brushes for retouching 336
Creating a snowflake brush 336
Creating a stubble brush 340
Summary 344
Part 4: World Building
11
Blending and Collaging Images 349
Technical requirements 350
Creating seamless panoramas 350
Building collages with texture and
paint 355
Posterizing the source photo 355
Selecting and masking posterized regions 357
Adding texture and paint to the posterized
sections 359
Creating double-exposure
compositions 364
Blending unrelated images 365
Blending two exposures of the same image 370
Working with HDR images 373
Advice for shooting HDR source images 373
Installing Adobe Bridge 373
Creating an HDR image with HDR Pro 375
Summary 381
12
Creating Surrealist Artwork 383
Technical requirements 384
How to approach a surrealist art
project 384
Creating simple yet effective
surrealist art 385
Transferring the moon artwork 385
Scaling and distorting the moon 387
Turning the pink balloon into grayscale 389
Replacing chair shadows 392
Creating moonlight effects 403
Creating and editing project-specific
assets 411
Isolating the hands from the shot 411
Summary 423
Index 425
Other Books You May Enjoy 434