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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

Working with artboards

In this first exercise, we will define document characteristics for a single artboard as a starting point to build the remaining content upon:

  1. Go to FileNew. When the New Document dialogue appears, click on the Web tab at the top of the dialogue to display the presets. Click on the Web Most Common thumbnail. Enter SM24, an abbreviation of the project name and year, into the Name field in the top-right of the dialogue.
  2. Change the Width to 400 px and the Height to 400 px. This will match the profile image size on Twitter. Ensure the Artboards checkbox is active, Color Mode is set to RGB Color, 8-bit, and Background Contents is White. Click OK when done to generate the document.
  3. Hover your cursor over the artboard named Artboard 1 in the Layers panel and double-click to open the type entry field. Type Tw-Profile and press Enter to apply the name change. Notice that the label above the top-left corner of the artboard in the Image window...
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