Lynda – Bert Monroy_The Making of Times Square, The Tools [1]

Lynda - Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square, The Tools
5h 56m Intermediate | Uploaded in Oct 14, 2014 via Webcentara

Subjects: Design Illustration Design Techniques Digital Painting
Software: Illustrator Photoshop





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