Photorealism with Bert Monroy: Volume 1 with: Bert Monroy

Photorealism with Bert Monroy: Volume 1 (Using Photoshop & Illustrator) will take you inside the creative mind of renowned artist Bert Monroy and show you how to create ultra-realistic images using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. These movies showcase Bert Monroy's personal methods for getting realistic details into an image. He demonstrates his techniques for creating lighting, fire, smoke, grass, reflections and even mold. In these movies you will get up close and personal with Bert's paintings as well as learn to make your own photorealistic imagery. Though these movies were created using Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS, the principles and techniques apply to older and newer versions of both programs in addition to other paint or vector-based drawing tools. lynda.com is very pleased to bring you Bert's work and we hope you will find it as exciting as we do!


Table of contents
Introductionwelcome 0:19 2.5 MB
introduction 2:52 5.5 MB
an underwater scene 15:21 26.6 MB

Layers, Layer Styles and Alpha Channelsintroduction to layers 2:08 3.3 MB
making a bowl using layers 3:56 6.4 MB
window in snow 9:32 16.5 MB
introduction to layer channels 6:03 11 MB
effects with layer styles 9:32 17.6 MB
layerstyle for stone detail 5:55 10.5 MB
stop sign 10:07 16.8 MB
shadow with alpha channels 7:08 12.4 MB
more on shadows 5:17 8.7 MB
more on using alpha channels 8:44 14.5 MB

Reflectionscreating a reflection 8:33 15.5 MB
wet sidewalk reflection 5:12 8.6 MB
reflection in the distance 4:54 8.7 MB
marble reflection 3:12 5.5 MB

Texturesintroduction to textures 6:38 11.9 MB
wood texture 7:21 12.5 MB
stone texture 6:49 12 MB
another stone texture 3:28 6.3 MB

Brushescreating a brush 4:26 7.3 MB
grass brush 6:44 11 MB
damage brush 3:29 5.6 MB
mold brush 2:13 4 MB
final brushes demonstration 15:37 27.1 MB

Perspectiveperspective 9:59 17.2 MB
perspective part two 5:44 7.9 MB

Displace Filterintro to displace filter 4:39 7.8 MB
waving flag 4:56 7.9 MB
turning book pages 5:16 8.7 MB

3D Effects3D lettering elements 7:25 12.9 MB
3D bulbs 6:34 11.5 MB
3D CD 6:59 12.3 MB

Patternsusing patterns 10:11 17 MB
brick wall pattern 6:20 10.2 MB
beans pattern 4:14 7.5 MB

Some Examplesrain 4:06 6.6 MB
lighting 5:08 8.9 MB
camera distortion 2:07 3.7 MB
fire and smoke 11:30 19.3 MB
fireplace scene 15:52 27 MB
crop circle 7:51 13.3 MB
creating neon 10:58 18.3 MB
chain 10:12 17 MB
time saving technique 6:43 10.4 MB
repurposing tip 1:13 2.2 MB
resolution 4:50 9.3 MB
pen tool 14:17 23.7 MB
scissor tool 2:36 4 MB
firing gun 8:14 12.9 MB
multiple shapes tip 0:46 1 MB

Conclusiongoodbye 0:12 1.7 MB

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