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Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape. Latest Episode
Episode 25 - The Brush Engine - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Sure, lots of video games have a physics engine -- ho-hum look at gravity and inertia work their magic. None of them have what photoshop has: a brush engine. The brush engine was developed back in Photoshop 7 (before CS) and is what makes Photoshop a true painting program and revolutionized the way Photoshop works. In the longest episode of PixelPerfect yet, Bert explains and demonstrates the inner workings of the brush engine.
Recent Episodes
Episode 24 - Rain - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
The universal solvent is back. It looms, floating in a condensed visible mass, then bursts from its vaporous state, streaking to the earth at terminal velocity. Those blurred droplets called rain are a pretty simple thing to create, it's just a couple of filters and you've got it. Bert takes it a few of steps further to create a whole stormy scene with rain, lightning and an ominous sky. Oh, and there's a pirate ship in there too.
Episode 23 - Fire - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
HOT!! HOT!! HOT!! This episode is smoking hot. By popular demand, Bert works his magic and shows us how to create fire. It is not quite as simple as lighting a match, but as Bert demonstrates, it is not too much more complicated than that.
Episode 22 - Marquee - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Now Playing: PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy. If this show was at a vintage movie theater, that might be the sign on the marquee outside. In this episode, Bert demonstrates how to create a marquee with lettering. The lettering is stenciled on to a thin looking, transparent plastic layer, warped and affixed to the marquee..
Episode 21 - Woodshop and Metalshop - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Watch as Bert manipulates filters, among other things, to create (completely from scratch) a wooden plaque with a brass plate that has a name on it.
Episode 20 - Perspective - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
A very important thing to keep in mind when you're creating images from scratch or even putting things into existing images is the concept of perspective. Bert goes back to basics to teach this concept, starting with a horizon line and adherence to the rules of mother nature.
Episode 19 - Banners - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
No, not advertising banners on websites, but banners in the original sense of the word such as described in the current wikipedia definition: "A banner is a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message." In this episode, Bert shows how to create a banner that is flowing back on itself with ripples using the pen tool that he described in episode 18.
Episode 18 - The Pen Tool - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
The pen tool is a very powerful tool, but a very misunderstood tool and very difficult to use. Bert spends this entire episode teaching just how the pen tool works.
Episode 17 - Displacement - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
It might take Einstein to help explain the complex physics of bending light, but when it comes to bending pixels, it is an art commonly referred to in Photoshop as displacement. Displacement can let you use the lumonosity values of one image to bend the pixels of another; a "relativity" of sorts. No offense to Einstein, but Bert can explain this one on his own.
Episode 16 - Colorizing - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert shows how to take drawings (like comics) and/or black and white photos and apply color where color does not exist. Amazingly simple and very cool.
Episode 15 - The Extract Command - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert demonstrates how to pull things and objects out of an image using Photoshop's Extract Tool.
Episode 14 - Rapid Weathering - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
All the steps for creating rusty and corroded type... old, broken-up and degraded.
Episode 13 - Drops of Water - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
The universal solvent takes center stage as Bert demonstrates how to create realistic looking water droplets and explains how in imaging it is important to study reality in order to re-create it.
Episode 12 - Inside Damen 3 of 3 - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert draws attention to the textures used in his huge digital painting, Damen. See how beams and bolts and all the rusty details within them are created.
Episode 11 - Inside Damen 2 of 3 - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert continues with his behind the scenes look at his 1.7GB digital painting, Damen, by demonstrating how his use of Illustrator and vector graphics played a role in the creation of the artwork.
Episode 10 - Inside Damen 1 of 3 - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert explains how his work of art, Damen, has over 15,000 layers and 500 alpha channels by focusing on the level of detail in just a part of the train at the station.
Episode 9 - Layer masks & Alpha channels - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert uses examples to explain the difference between layer masks and alpha channels. Both work the same way, but for a totally different purpose.
Episode 8 - The Ray Gun - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert delves into the dark side to show off the danger of weaponized digital pyrotechnics.
Episode 7 - From the Shadows - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
In this episode, Bert shows us how to use light, shadows and reflections to change the way an object looks in any given environment.
Episode 6 - A Series of Tubes - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert shows us how to make realistic looking neon tubes. Never blow glass again.
Episode 5 - Making Bling-Bling with Filter Tricks - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Make effects by getting creative with filters and combining filters -- the results may even be a girl's best friend.
Episode 4 - Type Treatments - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
There's more to type than just the font. Bert applies a little fluffy, pillowy, and bubbly treatment. What's that mean? Watch the show and find out.
Episode 3 - The Lamp - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Bert explains the thought process that goes into making a piece of art. We'll see a complete project and then focus on Bert's attention to detail in creating a lamp in the corner of the larger piece of work using textures, layer styles, and the warp feature.
Episode 2 - Patterns and Animations - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Watch as Bert teaches how Photoshop is also capable of animation.
Episode 1 - Lightning - Download (Right Click 'Save Target/Link As ..')
Using photoshop in fantasy art. Create lightning, sparkles, and a mystical vortex the same way professional effects and movie matte artists do.
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