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The Making of Times Square, The Tools with Bert Monroy




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.

Level: Intermediate
Length: 5h 56m
Released: March 25, 2011

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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