Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2026

From Isolated Tips to Real Workflows 💻

Photoshop is deep. Most users learn a handful of tools, then hit a wall when a project demands something more complex—a seamless composite, a polished retouch, or a brand mockup that has to look convincing from every angle. Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2026, Second Edition is built for that moment. Gary Bradley organizes advanced techniques into practical workflows, connecting the tools so you can see how they support each other across a real production process.

Advanced Photo Editing and Compositing 🎨

The book covers the core skills professional image makers rely on: advanced editing, compositing, retouching, and visual design. Rather than treating each technique as a standalone trick, Bradley shows how selections, masks, layers, blend modes, color, and retouching tools combine to solve specific visual problems. The focus stays on repeatable methods you can adapt to your own projects.

AI-Assisted Photoshop, with Human Judgment

Generative AI has changed what Photoshop can do and how quickly it can do it. This edition addresses those changes directly, including AI-powered features and workflows. The approach is balanced: use automation and intelligence to accelerate the routine work, but keep creative direction and critical judgment in your hands. The forewords by Rob de Winter and James Carrington reinforce that theme—technology serves the idea, not the other way around.

Visual Design and Brand Mockups ✨

Photoshop is not only for photographers. Designers, marketers, and content creators use it to build visual identities, campaign assets, and brand mockups that need to hold up in client presentations and real-world campaigns. The book speaks to that wider visual design role, showing how to move from raw imagery to finished, presentable work.

Who This Second Edition Is For

If you already know the Photoshop basics and want to work with more confidence, speed, and control, this edition is aimed at you. It suits graphic designers, photographers, retouchers, marketing professionals, and content creators who need to produce stronger visual results. Educators and students in design programs may also find the workflow-based structure useful for building professional habits.

About Gary Bradley

Gary Bradley is an award-winning graphic designer, creative director, author, and educator with more than 25 years of industry experience. He has led multidisciplinary design teams across four continents and worked with clients including Virgin Atlantic, the London Science Museum, Guinness, and Hugo Boss. He founded Creative Frontiers, a mentoring business that has supported designers in 26 countries, and he serves as a Graphic Design Lecturer at University Campus Doncaster. He is also an Adobe Master Instructor.

Why This Edition Stands Out

Packt Publishing’s second edition is updated for Adobe Photoshop 2026, with a 2025 copyright. It brings together traditional craft and modern AI features in one place, saving you from piecing together scattered tutorials. For readers who want a structured path through advanced Photoshop work, this is a thoughtful, experience-rich guide.

Available from Digital Delights as a digital ebook.