In this example of turning a photograph into a drawing, professional artist and Photoshop expert Bert Monroy shows you how to make a photograph look like a hand-drawn image on canvas. First, you’ll open a portrait in Photoshop and turn the entire image into a pattern (Select > All, Edit > Define Pattern). You’ll duplicate […]

Excerpted from Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting (New Riders). Reflections and Shadows Paul’s Shoe Repair is one of those places that seems to defy the changes of time. As the surrounding landscape of Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California, has seen businesses come and go, this little shop continues to open its doors every […]

This story is excerpted from “Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy, published by New Riders. In the first part of this excerpt from his book “Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy,” Photoshop artist extraordinaire Bert Monroy showed his image-retouching techniques for repositioning elements, adding content, cleaning up highlights, and eliminating items while enhancing others. In this second […]

This story is excerpted from “Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy, published by New Riders. What is retouching, anyway? Smoothing over a scratch in a negative or getting rid of red-eye reflection are obvious examples of retouching. But it’s also adding elements that were never there to begin with or eliminating those that are distracting to […]

This story is taken from “Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy.” Bert Monroy’s digital paintings are known for their photo-realism and natural details, such as dappled light filtering through tree leaves onto a polished desk or an ominous sky drenching Central Park with heavy rain. In this excerpt from his book, see how Monroy adds brooding […]

This story is taken from “Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy.” When you first see a Bert Monroy digital painting, you’ll be amazed by two things: first, that what you see is actually digital artwork; and second, that it was drawn entirely from scratch, not painted over a scanned photograph as is common. Monroy sees himself […]