El pasado 24 de Julio de 2007, La marca Monciardini y Melanie Stimmell ha lanzado su DVD Pack Tutorial. Photoshop - Top Secret, una colección de video titulares, llenos de trucos, efectos gráficos y técnicas digitales de la pintura, ademas de manejo avanzado de imagen digital. Todo para tus clases particulares profesionales.

La serie se compone de 4 discos DVD, cada uno con un temario de 10 items. Cada DVD tiene horas y horas de videos, archivos de los proyectos para experimentar y realizar la practica de clases.

Un valor agregado es que incluye al Photoshop CS2 y al recien salido CS3 por lo que el aprovechamiento es aun mayor.

Los autores son Mark Monciardini y Melanie Stimmell, personajes con un interesante curriculum en el mundo del photomontaje.

The Top Secret de Photoshop tiene un valor de US 179.00 y en su primera edición se a practicamente agotado en 2 semanas. De un lanzamiento inicial de 2000 copias solo quedan 360.

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.

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.

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.