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Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2024

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2024 Discover the smart way to polish your digital imagery skills by editing professional looking photos

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822019
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gary Bradley Gary Bradley
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Raising Your Photoshop Game
2. Chapter 1: Making Photoshop Work Harder and Smarter FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Non-Destructive Healing and Retouching 4. Chapter 3: Masking and Cutouts 5. Part 2:Bringing Brands Front and Center
6. Chapter 4: Building Brand Mock-Ups and Prototypes 7. Chapter 5: Creating Printed Marketing Collateral 8. Chapter 6: From Pixels to Post: Images for Social Media 9. Chapter 7: Creating Animated GIFs and Videos 10. Part 3:Building Visual Components
11. Chapter 8: Bringing Typography to Life with Effects and Styling 12. Chapter 9: Creating Textures, Patterns, and Backdrops 13. Chapter 10: Creating and Applying Brushes 14. Part 4:World Building
15. Chapter 11: Blending and Collaging Images 16. Chapter 12: Creating Surrealist Artwork 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we have created Photoshop documents made specifically for print. We’ve utilized a multitude of techniques that minimize the costly errors that are common in print projects.

We have built new documents that are characterized by the appropriate resolution and size to match common ISO paper sizes. We extended the canvas to account for bleed, and we added a series of grid systems and guides that indicate critical parts of print artwork, such as trim lines and safe zones. In doing so, we ensured that important visuals and text were kept clear of the document edges.

Time-consuming, repetitive tasks were recorded using actions, which we then applied in other projects at lightning-fast speeds.

We built flexibility into each project, from logos that were linked to an original Illustrator document to text that could be edited at any point. We also applied color overlays that allow for a single logo to contain different brand colors that can be turned...

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