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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

Creating and managing brush tip presets

Most of the brushes you use in Photoshop derive from a single greyscale image. White regions of the source image become transparent, while darker shades of grey become brush marks that you can change the color of as required.

Creating a custom bird brush

Following are the steps for creating a custom bird brush:

  1. Go to FileOpen and browse to the 10-Brushes folder. Select Flock.jpg and then click Open. The image contains a flock of birds.
  2. Right-click on the Background layer under Layers and choose Convert to Smart Object from the list of options. Rename the layer to Source.
  3. Then go to ImageAdjustments Levels. Set the Shadow Input value to 14 and the Highlight Input to 230. This will turn the background into a bright white. Click OK when done.

Figure 10.1: Removing any background details to prevent them appearing in the brush tip

  1. Switch to the Rectangular Marquee tool from...
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