Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 1
Putting a New Twist on Photoshop
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Welcome to my book Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 1.
In this book, you will be exploring how to work with various warping tools and filters in Photoshop, although at points throughout the book you will also be using graphics acquired from Adobe Illustrator. Knowing how to work between these two applications is a crucial part of understanding how to successfully manipulate your designs. In Photoshop, you will alter both raster images and vector graphics and learn how to do this with layers in various non-destructive ways.
- 1.
Introducing warps and distorts in Photoshop and an overview of Photoshop workspace tools and panels that you will be using throughout the book
- 2.
Working with the basic warping tools found in the Tools panel, building custom brushes, working with various brush tools, and understanding color blending modes as well as correcting basic distorts
- 3.
Creating patterns using various tools such as Brush Symmetry Paint, Shape tools, Pen tools, capturing patterns in the Libraries panel, Fill dialog box custom script patterns, and editing patterns further with the Layers panel and Offset filter. Later these patterns will be used for other projects and as textures.
- 4.
Learning about Free Transform layers to create unusual warps and distorts using smart object layers
- 5.
Learning about warp type layers, placing type on a path, and warping text within a label
- 6.
Working with the Puppet Warp smart object filter
- 7.
Working with the Perspective Warp smart object filter and looking at various content-aware commands and related tools, including Content-Aware Scale and the Sky Replacement command
- 8.
Using basic filters and smart filters within and outside the Filter Gallery workspace and creating GIF animations using filters
- 9.
Using advanced filters and smart filter workspaces found in the Filter menu for correcting as well as creating distortion. This includes a brief look at Camera Raw and the Liquify Filter.
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Using some of the advanced filters when working with perspective and a few of the new neural filters and discovering how to acquire additional filters as well
Source Code
Source code or other supplementary material can be found at the following link: github.com/apress/perspective-warps-distorts-vol1.
Additional resources and information regarding Photoshop will be found in Chapter 1. Furthermore, Volume 2 of this book will be available soon, and it focuses on the Illustrator application and its related tools for warping and distortion.
For assistance with writing this book there are some people I’d like to thank. This includes my parents, from whom I inherited my drawing skills. They encouraged me to continue to find new ways to use Adobe applications. I am grateful for the assistance in selecting the final artwork for this book and doing some of the proofreading of my notes before I sent them to my editors. Thanks go to my Program Coordinator at Langara College, Raymond Chow, for his suggestions and advice on what art and drawing in Photoshop and Illustrator should be about for students. I also thank my Editors and Technical Reviewers at Apress. A special thank you goes to Spandana Chatterjee and Mark Powers for giving me the opportunity to continue writing on topics that I enjoy. I hope you, the reader, enjoy this book too.
A photograph of Jennifer Harder.
As a freelancer, Jennifer frequently works with Adobe PDFs to help enhance websites and other instructional documents.
She enjoys talking about Adobe software, and her interests include writing, illustration, and working on her websites.
is an experienced professional visual artist with working experience in ad agencies, print media houses, and educational institutions. He is skilled in photo editing, photo restoration, portraits, documentaries, advertising films, logo design, and vector illustration. He is an arts and design professional with a Master's degree in Applied/Commercial Art from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India. At present, he runs a photo/video production company, Wedding Moment Pictures.