YoVDO

Pixel Playground

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

Take a 10-minute recess and join Bert Monroy for one of many fun, self-contained projects in Photoshop or Illustrator.

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
November 2016
  • Type effect: Gold
  • Type effect: Spooky
  • Create a tranquil landscape: Build the structure
October 2016
  • Create a push button
  • Type effect: Marble and wood
  • Create a leather strap
  • Create a posted flyer
September 2016
  • 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
August 2016
  • 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
July 2016
  • Create a surrealistic room
  • Use texture to create clams
  • Parisian scene: Create perspective
  • Parisian scene: Do the research
  • Type effects: Wood type
June 2016
  • Type effects: Flag
  • Type effects: Fruit
  • Create a potted plant with Photoshop
  • Use masks and layers to place an object into a new background
May 2016
  • Type effects: Cookies
  • Type effects: Bevel and Emboss
  • Type effects: Pencil
  • Type effects: Lead type
April 2016
  • 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
March 2016
  • 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
February 2016
  • Textured castle wall: Create the basic wall
  • Textured castle wall: Adding 3D light
  • 3D pencil: Create a pencil tip
  • Create a nighttime dreamscape image
January 2016
  • Ice cream bar: Create the bar
  • Ice cream bar: Dipped in chocolate
  • 3D dartboard: Create the dart
  • 3D dartboard: Create the dartboard
December 2015
  • Mocking up a billboard in a street scene
  • Venetian night: Creating a balcony using 3D in Photoshop
  • Create a 3D wine cork
November 2015
  • Creating an oil painting effect from a photo
  • Creating a wet countertop
  • Type effects in Photoshop: Cosmic type
October 2015
  • 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
September 2015
  • Creating a sewn-on letter effect
  • Type effects in Photoshop: Chrome
  • Rags to riches: Fabric type
August 2015
  • Blue Truck: Headlight
  • Blue Truck: Creating a screw
  • Blue Truck: Grill
  • Blue Truck: Rust spot
July 2015
  • Creating a panic button
  • Making a cartoon car even more cartoony
  • Creating a cartoon book
  • Creating a stylized postcard
June 2015
  • 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
May 2015
  • 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
April 2015
  • 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
March 2015
  • 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
February 2015
  • 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
January 2015
  • 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
December 2014
  • Mapping video onto a 3D object in Photoshop
  • Creating a wintery scene
  • Making a New Year's 2015 card
November 2014
  • Three Dimensional type with extruded neon: Making the letter forms
  • 3D type with extruded neon: Adding the neon
  • Creating a Thanksgiving card
October 2014
  • 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
September 2014
  • Making a desk nameplate
  • Illustrating a campfire from scratch
  • Creating realistic stains on bathroom tile
  • Creating a distressed windowsill from scratch
August 2014
  • 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
July 2014
  • Making a book: Perspective
  • Making a book: Adding pages
  • Using paths and layer styles to create logo text
June 2014
  • Theater curtain: Animating a rising curtain
  • Creating a chalkboard
  • Creating a manila envelope
  • Turning a regular donut into a jelly donut
May 2014
  • 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
April 2014
  • 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
March 2014
  • Damen Station: Creating realistic rust
  • Oyster Bar: Creating puddles
  • Oyster Bar: Creating asphalt and concrete textures
  • Oyster Bar: Creating a manhole cover
February 2014
  • Magazine cover: Creating a lamp
  • Magazine cover: Creating a wood floor
  • Damen Station: Adding multiple train cars
  • Damen Station: Creating bolts
January 2014
  • 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
December 2013
  • Oakland Theater: Creating lightbulbs
  • Changing photo contents with Auto-Align Layers
  • Creating a metal grill
November 2013
  • 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
October 2013
  • 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
September 2013
  • Using a Fibonacci spiral to create a tattoo
  • Body shaping with Puppet Warp
  • Type effects in Photoshop: Pillow
  • Type effects in Photoshop: Clouds
August 2013
  • 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
July 2013
  • Creating a custom brush
  • Using displacement maps to create shadows
  • Enhancing a landscape by adding a lake
  • Creating a dog tag
June 2013
  • 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

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