Take a 10-minute recess and join Bert Monroy for one of many fun, self-contained projects in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Overview
Syllabus
December 2016
- Create a tranquil landscape: Add a path and shrubs
- Create a tranquil landscape: Add a lake and the sky
- Explore 3D objects in Photoshop
- Photoshop's Liquify filter
- Type effect: Gold
- Type effect: Spooky
- Create a tranquil landscape: Build the structure
- Create a push button
- Type effect: Marble and wood
- Create a leather strap
- Create a posted flyer
- Create a window railing: Start in Illustrator
- Create a window railing: Finish in Photoshop
- Message in a bottle: Create the bottle
- Message in a bottle: Add the ocean
- Create a surreal lunar landscape
- Sci-fi outpost: Build the tower
- Sci-fi outpost: Finish the scene
- Use Warp and paths in Photoshop to create an exploded page
- Type effects: Marquee letters
- Create a surrealistic room
- Use texture to create clams
- Parisian scene: Create perspective
- Parisian scene: Do the research
- Type effects: Wood type
- Type effects: Flag
- Type effects: Fruit
- Create a potted plant with Photoshop
- Use masks and layers to place an object into a new background
- Type effects: Cookies
- Type effects: Bevel and Emboss
- Type effects: Pencil
- Type effects: Lead type
- Create a sword: Construct the blade
- Create a sword: Construct the handle
- Create a sword: Add detail to the handle
- Create a Hawaii travel graphic
- Make footprints in dirt
- Add a brand to a wood surface
- Use a custom brush to create a string of pearls
- Spread stars in a galaxy image in Photoshop
- Create an Easter card
- Textured castle wall: Create the basic wall
- Textured castle wall: Adding 3D light
- 3D pencil: Create a pencil tip
- Create a nighttime dreamscape image
- Ice cream bar: Create the bar
- Ice cream bar: Dipped in chocolate
- 3D dartboard: Create the dart
- 3D dartboard: Create the dartboard
- Mocking up a billboard in a street scene
- Venetian night: Creating a balcony using 3D in Photoshop
- Create a 3D wine cork
- Creating an oil painting effect from a photo
- Creating a wet countertop
- Type effects in Photoshop: Cosmic type
- Rags to riches: Giving the fabric type dimension
- Rags to riches: Gold type
- Turning a photo into a fairy tale book cover
- Using a photo to create a travel poster
- Type effects in Photoshop: Candy type
- Creating a sewn-on letter effect
- Type effects in Photoshop: Chrome
- Rags to riches: Fabric type
- Blue Truck: Headlight
- Blue Truck: Creating a screw
- Blue Truck: Grill
- Blue Truck: Rust spot
- Creating a panic button
- Making a cartoon car even more cartoony
- Creating a cartoon book
- Creating a stylized postcard
- Creating letter reflections on a neon sign
- Type effects in Photoshop: Using gradient and stroke layer styles
- Creating a 3D chocolate candy in Photoshop
- Type effects in Photoshop: Mossy 3D type
- Colorizing black-and-white sketches
- Making bubbles: Using the Brush tool
- Making bubbles: Adding highlights
- Creating a Photoshop 25th anniversary sign
- Type effects in Photoshop: Honey
- Easter basket: Adding a bow and the eggs
- Placing lettering on plastic
- Using brushes to create a twisted pair of wires in Illustrator
- Creating an Art Deco bistro sign
- St. Patrick's Day card: Creating a shamrock and a pot of gold
- St. Patrick's Day card: Adding the details
- Creating a 3D Easter egg
- Easter basket: Creating the basket
- Making a piece of candy: Adding the jelly filling
- Creating a Valentine's Day card
- Turning a daytime scene into night
- Using Photoshop's Displace filter to create a waving flag
- Using the Photoshop Flame Generator
- Creating a mountain scene
- Creating reflections in water
- Making a diamond-encrusted type
- Making a piece of candy: Creating the chocolate base
- Mapping video onto a 3D object in Photoshop
- Creating a wintery scene
- Making a New Year's 2015 card
- Three Dimensional type with extruded neon: Making the letter forms
- 3D type with extruded neon: Adding the neon
- Creating a Thanksgiving card
- Creating a galaxy with Photoshop: Building the star field
- Creating a galaxy with Photoshop: Adding color and effects
- Creating a campfire scene: Adding the campfire
- Creating a campfire scene: Adding trees and lighting
- Creating a superhero type treatment
- Making a desk nameplate
- Illustrating a campfire from scratch
- Creating realistic stains on bathroom tile
- Creating a distressed windowsill from scratch
- Increasing precipitation: How to make a rainy-day photo look rainier
- Retouching techniques: Improving a picnic scene
- Retouching techniques: Moving an object in a scene
- Retouching techniques: Improving a real estate photo
- Adding a billboard to a photo
- Making a book: Perspective
- Making a book: Adding pages
- Using paths and layer styles to create logo text
- Theater curtain: Animating a rising curtain
- Creating a chalkboard
- Creating a manila envelope
- Turning a regular donut into a jelly donut
- Creating net fabric for a veil
- Animating a spotlight against a brick wall
- Damen Station: Using Blend in Illustrator to create intricate details
- Theater curtain: Making a braid and tassels
- Theater curtain: Creating the curtain
- Oyster Bar: Creating a canvas texture
- Creating realistic reflections and shadows
- Creating water droplets on a surface
- Wrapping a pattern around a 3D wine goblet
- Damen Station: Creating realistic rust
- Oyster Bar: Creating puddles
- Oyster Bar: Creating asphalt and concrete textures
- Oyster Bar: Creating a manhole cover
- Magazine cover: Creating a lamp
- Magazine cover: Creating a wood floor
- Damen Station: Adding multiple train cars
- Damen Station: Creating bolts
- Red truck: Creating a headlight
- Red truck: Creating chrome headlight trim
- Red truck: Creating realistic metal perforations
- Red truck: Creating wear on metal
- Magazine cover: Using perspective to draw a room
- Oakland Theater: Creating lightbulbs
- Changing photo contents with Auto-Align Layers
- Creating a metal grill
- Charms and medallions in Photoshop: Adding details
- Charms and medallions in Photoshop: Adding a third dimension
- Oakland Theater: Creating stone walls
- Oakland Theater: Creating neon
- Animating a 3D starfield
- Creating an antique pub sign using Photoshop
- Creating a custom brush to draw hair
- Charms and medallions in Photoshop: First steps
- Using a Fibonacci spiral to create a tattoo
- Body shaping with Puppet Warp
- Type effects in Photoshop: Pillow
- Type effects in Photoshop: Clouds
- Recreating magazine clippings
- Creating realistic scales for a dragon tattoo
- Creating spikes for a dragon tattoo
- Creating the belly for a dragon tattoo
- Creating a flower tattoo
- Creating a custom brush
- Using displacement maps to create shadows
- Enhancing a landscape by adding a lake
- Creating a dog tag
- Creating animated snowfall with Photoshop
- Filling an empty glass with liquid
- Using an alpha channel to create a 3D object
- Creating a 3D coin
Taught by
Bert Monroy
