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Bert Monroy is a digital painter, early Photoshop adopter, and a professor. His clients include Apple, Adobe, and Disney.Bert Monroy is a pioneer of digital art. He is a hyper-realistic digital painter who builds his digital paintings as a traditional artist would: adding color and texture, but on a digital canvas. A veteran of twenty years in the advertising industry and thirty years as a commercial illustrator, Bert coauthored the first book on Photoshop and has authored several books since. He was a regular on TechTV for almost four years and until recently hosted PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy, a weekly Photoshop podcast for Revision3.com that aired for over three years.
Bert currently hosts a weekly podcast entitled Pixel Playground, here on lynda.com, where he also has a vast library of tutorial videos. An accomplished teacher and lecturer, Bert has served on the faculties of the School of Visual Arts (New York), the Center for Creative Imaging (Maine), and California College of the Arts. He currently teaches at San Francisco State University, where he has been on the faculty for over twenty years. His client list includes Apple, Adobe, Pixar, and Disney Animation. Bert is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team and in 2004 was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
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Bert Monroy, hyperrealist digital painter, tells us about his labor of love with Photoshop.
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Master illustrator Bert Monroy walks though the process of creating realistic commercial illustrations with Photoshop.
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Bert Monroy transforms a set of ordinary photographs into an extraordinary work of art featuring a labyrinth-like maze.
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Learn how to create a spooky haunted house in Photoshop CC.
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Learn how to use Photoshop to build 3D planets and spaceships and composite them into a dreamscape featuring a mysterious off-world mining colony.
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Learn to use Photoshop to composite and blend images from many different sources into a dreamscape featuring a magic orb and an island guardian.
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Turn boring beach photos into a dreamscape featuring a sacred cavern, using the transformative tools in Photoshop and these techniques from Photoshop master Bert Monroy.
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Learn what role materials, layers, and channels play in a digital art workflow, and how they can elevate your art and designs.
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Learn how to create hyperrealistic cars, boats, and bicycles, like the ones featured in Bert Monroy's painting Amsterdam Mist, with Photoshop CC.
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Watch digital painter Bert Monroy paint the natural elements—the trees, water, and fog—in his painting Amsterdam Mist, using the tools in Photoshop CC.
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Learn how to illustrate a mystical passage inspired by myth, with Photoshop and a collection of ordinary images.
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Bring a science-fiction scene inspired by Star Wars to life with a few simple images and the tools in Photoshop.
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Join Bert Monroy as he creates a brand-new work of art—a castle on a desert cliff—using just a few ordinary images and the tools in Photoshop.
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Create a portal to a realm of the imagination with a 3D arch, a collection of ordinary images, and the tools in Photoshop.
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Learn how to create a cozy mushroom house that looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale, with Photoshop and a collection of ordinary images.
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Follow along with the development of Amsterdam Mist, artist Bert Monroy's latest digital painting, and learn Photoshop and Illustrator techniques you can apply to your own artwork.
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Legendary author and artist Bert Monroy, a digital art pioneer, walks through basic artistic concepts that are critical for creating great art and designs in this Photoshop tutorial.
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The third installment of Bert Monroy's Dreamscapes series shows how to transport your photos into otherworldly territory, like an underwater coral reef, an enchanted forest, or even a menacing factory, all with Photoshop.
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Join Bert Monroy in the second installment of his Dreamscapes series, and learn how to transform your photos into incredible scenes filled with imaginary creatures, ancient ruins, and more.
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Take an unexciting photo and begin to transform it into an amazing dream sequence using compositing and painting techniques in Photoshop.
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Inside the home studio of Photoshop expert and hyperrealistic digital illustrator Bert Monroy.
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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.
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Shows the steps Bert Monroy took in Photoshop and Illustrator to create the lifelike detail in his incredible portrait of Times Square.
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Digital painter Bert Monroy demonstrates how he uses the brushes, filters, and textures in Photoshop to create his photorealistic portrait of Times Square.
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Learn to make rusty text, a glazed donut, fireworks, an antique photo, and a speeding bullet.
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Artist Bert Monroy demonstrates his techniques for creating lighting, fire, smoke, grass, and reflections.