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Key benefits

Gain foundational skills in photo editing, design, and digital painting

Discover tools for selections, color adjustments, text application, and content creation

Explore the latest updates and plug-ins for more control over image enhancement

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Description

Photopea is a comprehensive image and photo editing design tool that provides essential features and capabilities comparable to Adobe Photoshop. This book covers the latest version of Photopea, featuring step-by-step instructions for image editing, improving and enhancing designs with text and effects, and creating eye-catching projects for print and the web. The first part of this book will teach you how to navigate the workspace, use the best tools for specific tasks and projects, and make perfect selections. You’ll also discover how to remove backgrounds, merge and/or add objects, and adjust colors to create impressive images. Later, you’ll explore layers and compositing techniques, and get hands on with retouching images like a pro. The book will demonstrate how to create collages and use brushes, color wheels, and swatches for drawing and painting. You’ll also learn how to apply impressive text to images to create posters, flyers, and logos. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to retouch, paint, enhance, and manipulate images; how to use templates provided by Photopea; and finally, how to apply your skills to projects.

Who is this book for?

This book is for photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, hobbyists, and students in need of alternative graphic design software suitable for digital imaging and more. Beginners with no prior knowledge of photo editing will also benefit from this book, as it will help them learn fundamental editing skills while they explore Photopea’s functionality.

What you will learn

Understand how to use masks, layer adjustments, and work non-destructively with your images

Use photo retouching techniques to enhance your images, revive old photos, and apply effects

Use brushes effectively and learn how to create custom brushes for specific tasks and effects

Apply different selections for removing backgrounds and objects from photos

Utilize the principles of color theory to craft visually stunning compositions

Draw stunning vector and bitmap formats for coloring, rendering, and finished illustrations

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Montsho Shelby Jul 19, 2024

It’s hard enough to navigate photoshop or any other digital art media but this book touches on every aspect. It had beautiful choices in art pieces and it really made sure you knew what to do by the end of each chapter. If you wanna get better in your digital art this is the book to try!

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Joyy Norris Jul 15, 2024

Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea, is an incredibly detailed and thoughtful editing design guide that helps users of all levels navigate the digital illustration process using Photopia software.Written by multidisciplinary visual artist Michael Burton, the information shared in this book is approachable and digestible and written in a way that only an adept professional creative can communicate. If you are looking for a new digital editing program and advice on creating work to be proud of, this book is for you.

nicole Aug 21, 2024

I was blown away by the content of this book. Very detailed , well structured. This book seems to have it all within its pages . If you’re looking for a true guide this is the book for you look no other place . I just can’t believe a book like this is on the market most people gatekeepers but this author wants us to win and doesn’t mind sharing his ideas and teachings . Having a hard copy is best so I can just flip through the book and highlight what i need to .

Busy Bee Aug 22, 2024

I’m working my way through reading this book. So far so good. Amazon delivered the book with the front cover damaged - I asked for a replacement and received it very quickly. Thanks for that! Please take care sending EVERY type of book out to customers.

Dr. Klaus E. Heck Oct 19, 2024

I have now read 20% of the book. I liked the reading sample. The book is also written in plain English. So I bought it as a Kindle version. But then: as soon as it came to learning, the author forgets that he wants to teach us Photopea and not show us what he does with it. So I was asked to open a mountain photo. “What kind of mountain photo?” I thought. So I downloaded one from Google. But then I remembered that in the introduction he wrote something about material that could be downloaded. And sure enough, I found the first photo. It was in chapter 4, so I downloaded it. I was supposed to “rasterize” this picture. And I did. No explanation as to why the photo wasn't already rasterized anyway. And then: I could have taken any other mountain photo. Because he didn't manipulate anything else in the picture. I was then told to load a brown block, which I did. In the book, the brown block was then a frame if it was arranged correctly. In reality, however, the size of the brown block was much smaller than the mountain photo. So I enlarged the block and finally had my frame. It goes on like this the whole time. In the next examples, it doesn't even ask me to open any sample files. I do learn how to do this when masking. But in the first example, not a word about how I can then use this masked file in any way. Nope! It's no fun like that. I'm still undecided about returning the book. But unfortunately it's the only Kindle book out there. So I'm still hesitating.

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