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Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

By : Michael Burton
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Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

4.4 (5)
By: Michael Burton

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started With Photopea
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Part 2: Digital Imaging, Design Techniques, and Other Software
14
Part 3: Drawing Figures, Creating a Logo, and Other Features

Creating a black and white logo

After working on a variety of sketches and rough ideas for the MIC logo, we should narrow down our choices and further develop a few of the logos into polished designs. We will explore a few of the ways we can achieve a polished black and white logo in this section.

Over the years, I’ve learned it’s best to work in black and white so that you don’t spend a lot of time (wasted time) on the small details such as how many colors to use, whether you should add gradients and drop shadows, and so on. You can do all of that now, but may not like the design by the time you finish. By leaving all of those details until last, you can focus on the important parts of the design with a clear mind.

With that being said, let’s get started on finishing one of the three best logos from the sketches. I have included the example Figure 14.8 in the resources folder if you would like to follow along.

  1. I will use a combination of tracing...

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