About the Author

Bert Monroy is a digital painter, early Photoshop adopter, and a professor.

Bert's clients include Apple, Adobe, and Disney. He 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.