Photoshop Top Secret Techniques

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    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.

    Create Posters, Movie Covers, Surreal Graphics and More!The course will teach you how to become the ultimate Photoshop® "black belt" for fun and/or profit. You'll learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book jackets, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a tremendously wide range of print ads and Web site graphics.


    DVD 1
    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.


    Code:
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    DVD 2
    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.


    Code:
    http://www.fileserve.com/file/DEEVrQs/pstopsecretdvd2.part01.rar
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    DVD 3
    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.


    Code:
    http://www.fileserve.com/file/gxsmXkA/pstopsecretdvd3.part01.rar
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    DVD 4
    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.


    Code:
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    Exercise files and photographs accompany the tutorial.

    Table of contents


    What Photoshop Can Do
    Welcome to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: The Essentials
    Introducing Photoshop
    Combining one image with another
    Adjusting colors
    Cloning trees
    Adding a couple of adjustment layers
    Creating a dark and stormy sky
    Sharpening the focus of the image
    Cropping artwork
    Adding text
    Setting Up Shop
    Open, navigate, set up
    Opening an image
    Opening multiple images
    Adding file info
    Tiling and scrolling
    Zooming shortcuts
    Using the Zoom tool
    The Navigator palette
    Nudging the screen image
    Scroll wheel tricks
    Setting preferences
    Color settings
    Custom keyboard shortcuts
    Remapping keyboard shortcuts
    Organizing the palettes
    Saving your workspace
    Cycling between screen modes
    The New and Improved Bridge
    The Bridge turns two
    Introducing the Bridge
    Managing image thumbnails
    Rotations, ratings, and labels
    The new Filter panel
    Moving, copying, and deleting images
    Batch renaming
    Customizing and saving the workspace
    Loupe, compare, and stack
    Previewing images in the Slideshow mode
    Color management and cache
    Basic Color Adjustment
    'Color Correction' is so un-P.C.
    Color Balance vs. Variations
    The Variations interface
    Color primaries and complements
    Correcting the color cast
    Fading an adjustment
    Closing the exercise file
    Adjusting hue and saturation
    Changing yellow paint to red
    Selectively adjusting hues
    Refining your color range
    Shadows, Highlights, and Midtones
    Brightness and Contrast
    Levels of luminance
    Bad old Brightness/Contrast
    Good new Brightness/Contrast
    The Auto commands
    How the Auto commands work
    A first look at Levels
    Modifying a histogram
    Channel-by-channel adjustments
    Boosting the saturation
    When Levels fail
    A first look at Curves
    Super useful curve-editing tricks
    Correcting the composite image
    Neutralizing the pink pachyderm
    The Shadow/Highlight filter
    Adjusting the Radius and Tonal Width
    Image Size and Resolution
    Imaging fundamentals
    The big pixel puzzle
    The Image Size command
    Selecting an interpolation option
    Upsampling versus
    Changing the print resolution
    Downsampling your artwork
    How do you make a small image big?
    Cropping and Straightening
    Frame wide, crop tight
    Crop tool presets
    Drawing a freeform crop
    The Crop command
    Auto Crop & Straighten
    Straightening an image with the Ruler tool
    Perspective cropping
    Making Selections
    Flowers and saw blades
    Meet the Selection tools
    The Magic Wand tool
    Tolerance and other options
    Grow, Similar, and Inverse
    The Quick Selection tool
    The Marquee and Lasso tools
    Using Refine Edge to preview a selection
    The Refine Edge slider options
    Saving a selection
    Using the Move tool
    Replacing, Retouching, and Editing
    Toilsome artistic labor
    Why red-eye happens
    Using the Red-Eye tool
    The Color Replacement tool
    Replacing colors with lighter shades
    Brightening teeth with the Dodge tool
    Removing plaque with the Sponge tool
    Spot-healing blemishes
    Using the Standard Healing brush
    Healing large areas with the Patch tool
    Viewing the source as an overlay
    Painting straight segments
    Fading a brushstroke
    Aligning multiple brushstrokes
    Painting inside a selection
    The new Clone Source palette
    Adding drama with the Toning tools
    Merging history states
    To Be Continued
    See ya for now


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