How to Become a Photoshop "Black Belt"-Fast!
Just released by Mark Monciardini, Photoshop® Top Secret™ is an Extreme Photoshop Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe® Photoshop®. This student-friendly home study course includes four DVD-ROMs with over 16 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. It also comes with a full-color gallery book (printed, not pdf) that shows the end result of each project in the course. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors.
DVD 1
You Will Learn...
Movie Poster Design I
Create a popular people montage seen
on many movie posters.
Movie Poster Design II
Take an ordinary house and turn it into a
Sci-fi Movie Poster.
Movie Poster Credits
Tips and tricks on creating a real “Credit Block”
for movie posters.
Dark Faces
How I created my creepy Image that has been
in Magazines and Ads.
Breaking Apart
Create the illusion that a face is
falling apart.
Dream Scene Montage
Create an elephant with wings and
place it into a futuristic world.
Stone Portrait
Create a “Stone Bust” out of a portrait
for a killer special effect.
Surreal Images
Create a creamy foggy mist over
water and rocks. Dream Skin Create a fantasy woman with henna
art and dream skin. Special Effects Learn how to create orbs, fireballs
and jellyfish like creatures.
DVD2
You Will Learn...
Painting a Portrait
Digitally paint a portrait from a
photographic reference.
Swapping Faces
How to take the face from one photo
and place it into a completely different one.
Pop Art
Turn a Photograph into artwork
that was popular in the mid 1950’s.
Applying Tattoos
How to apply henna and tattoos to skin.
Masking Fur
Seamlessly remove the background
from furry animals.
Vanishing Point
What Vanishing Point is and how
to edit images with perspective.
Web Graphics
Learn how to create commonly
used web graphics and screen shots.
Shattered Type
Create the illusion that text
is being shattered like glass.
Flower Greeting Card
Use the vector tools in Photoshop to
create an elegant looking Greeting Card.
Creating DVD Covers
Mark shows you exactly how he created
the Photoshop Top Secret DVD covers.
DVD 3
You Will Learn...
Flying out of Bounds
Create the classic “out of bounds” effect
with a very cool masking trick.
Reaching out of Bounds
Creating the illusion of arms and
hands reaching out of a picture frame.
Chocolate Milk Frog
How to make a frog covered in chocolate.
Covered with Wax
Choose an object and cover it
with melting wax.
Grunge Look
Create a unique grunge background
that can be used for almost anything.
Square Fruit
Play with mother nature by changing
the shape of fruit.
Invisible Man
How to make a person vanish from
their clothing.
Metal Collage
How to create a Robot with pieces of a
Photo and then place it into another world.
Morphing Creatures
Morph animals and reptiles together
to create interesting creatures.
Using Layer Comps
How to create multiple layouts in
one Photoshop file using Layer Comps.
DVD 4
You Will Learn...
Vector Art Portrait
Turn a Photograph into beautiful
vector art.
Dreamy Background
Create Sci-fi looking spiral
backgrounds.
Liquid Metal
The ultimate Liquid metal technique
that can be applied to text and objects.
Smoke
Create Psychedelic and Natural Smoke
to incorporate into your artwork.
Soap Bubbles
Use soap bubbles to add flair to
your projects.
Water Bubbles
Use these water bubbles to infuse
imagination into your projects.
Underwater Scene
Create an underwater illusion with
just the tools in Photoshop.
Swap Animal Skin
Take skin from one animal and
place it over another.
Stylized Character
Turn a sketch into colorful art.
Masking Mastery
Special video that explains many masking
techniques used by the pros.
