Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular graphic design applications on the market. It is at the core of just about every creative project, whether you are designing for print, digital media, or both. The projects in this book were designed to reflect a variety of common assignments that you will encounter in your graphic design career, including image retouching and correction, compositing multiple images into a single design, and even creating new digital artwork from scratch. You will learn to:

• Define appropriate resolution settings for a variety of distribution media.
• Composite raster images, vector objects, and type to create a unified composition.
• Use a variety of techniques to separate complicated images from their backgrounds.
• Use Photoshop’s powerful controls for repairing and retouching, correcting color, and adjusting lighting in source images.
• Create unique artistic effects using Photoshop’s built-in filters, effects, and brushes.
• Explore the possibilities of Photoshop’s built-in artificial intelligence to create entirely new image elements from simple text prompts.
• Use valuable time-savers such as styles and actions to streamline your workflow.
• Save files with appropriate settings and formats for a variety of print and digital media.
• Create graphic and CSS assets for a web design workflow directly within Photoshop.