Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square, The Tools

Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square, The Tools
5h 56m |  Intermediate |  Exercise Files | 1.57 GB

Take a virtual journey to the bustling streets of New York in Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square. Digital painter Bert Monroy reveals how he created the minute details that build the impressive 108,000 x 21,600 pixels, 25-feet wide photorealistic portrait of this iconic intersection.



In this installment, The Tools, Bert demonstrates how he uses the brushes, filters, and textures in Photoshop to create everything from the trees in Central Park to the billboards on Broadway, and shares his techniques for keeping his project organized with layers and groups. He also touches on the importance of channels and channel calculations, and how the evolution of the tools in Photoshop from CS3 to CS5 shaped his work.



Topics include:

• Making a chain brush
  
• Understanding the layers in lights
  
• Using the 3D tools in Photoshop
  
• Using layer styles
  
• Creating wood and fabric textures
  
• Applying a layer mask
  
• Linking layer masks with layer styles
  
• Understanding channels
  

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