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A collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects from computer graphics guru Deke McClelland.

Take a 10-minute recess every week and join Bert Monroy for a fun, self-contained project in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Learn to toggle between Illustrator and Photoshop and take advantage of the strongest features in each program.

Discover the natural media brushes and effects in Illustrator for drawing, painting, and adding expressive strokes.

Join professional illustrative designer Von Glitschka as he shares his experience on how to research, sketch, build, and present vector graphics.

Bert Monroy shows how he created the hyperrealistic portrayals of the dozens of people inhabiting his painting, many of which he drew from real-life friends and family.

Shows the steps Bert Monroy took in Photoshop and Illustrator to create the lifelike detail in his incredible portrait of Times Square.

Digital painter Bert Monroy demonstrates how he uses the brushes, filters, and textures in Photoshop to create his photorealistic portrait of Times Square.