How to Become a Photoshop "Black Belt"-Fast!
Just released by Mark Monciardini, Photoshop® Top Secret™ is an Extreme 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
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.

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.


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 shot
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
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
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.

Tech Info:
Video tutorials stream off the DVD-Roms using Adobe Flash technology. Videos have stereo sound and run at 12 to 15 frames per section. Stop, Play pause and video scrub controls are available at all times.



Bonus DVD 5