Inside the Design DVD covers flyers, movie posters, Nuera, and also photo retouching with 44 video tutorials.

- Matrix Text Effect

- Wedding Photo Montages

- Transparent Text

- Torn Edges

- Clipping groups

- Paint in grey, colorizing, backscreening, popping out effect, scanlines, studio tarp, blending mode effects, web tabs, grid, depth of field, product backlighting, and much more

- Many real-world montage tutorials (turn basic image/foto editing into graphic design in a snap)

- Professional power of layer masking to mastery

That's 5 hours of in-depth Photoshop tips & training with 119 video Photoshop tutorials to increase your skillset.

Here are just a few benefits of what you will learn with the Photoshop Designer Package

-How to operate within the Photoshop environment: on an intermediate to advanced level and how to use Photoshop for actual graphic design work including what shortcuts and tools to use.  I go through "Inside the Design" in addition to step by step tutorials to show you how real professional designs are made.

-Wedding photo exercises/designs (create gorgeous and effective wedding templates)

-How to touch up and restore photos for much improved results in a matter of minutes (sometimes seconds)!

-Understand & master the power of layers (the fundamental of all digital design). If you're serious about graphic design you're going to love this training which is covered throughout everything I do to get you operating on your own a.s.a.p.

-How to use the power of stock photography (royalty-free) to quickly create beautiful designs in less than a minute (you won't believe how easy it is once you see it).  Even if you're a novice, you'll love this professional technique because you get results FAST.

-Combining multiple tools in getting a quick and fast selection.  It's important for you to get great selections because they will produce your new graphic design layers, the fundamental of all design.  You will understand how to use these on an advanced level.

-Dozens of practical exercises in using Photoshop to create specific designs & projects (which you can easily recreate Step-by-Step).  These include the Matrix text effect, web buttons, transparent text, product backgrounds and much much more all from scratch!

-Live poster design - watch me work against the clock and Learn how I think and use Photoshop's tools so you can directly apply these advanced graphic design techniques in your Photoshop and workflow.

-Typography in Action to finish off great designs & much much more!  We're talking Mega Photoshop Training here!  The stuff that you won't find anywhere else.

-Party flyers, fantasy posters, movie posters, and much more in the 20 hours of training in the Total Package!................& much more!!

-Understanding and using vectors and the shape tools (create the kind of images you see in commercial advertising & design)...

-Montages (my super specialty): basics through advanced techniques & dozens of examples

-Get a very educated feel for the practical use of blending modes and how you can apply them in design

-The practical and instant professional power of layer masks and their applications (covered in dozens of tutorials to make sure you understand layer masking and its importance in pro design).  Now you can "hide" pixels and create smooth or fading blends in any image (used in 90% of all movie posters)

-In-depth gradient tool and gradient layer masking

-Use the Free Images Bonus CD to design posters and art of your very own (there are hundreds of pro nitelife/club photo's alone which are perfect for creating your own C-Posters..show us what you can do!) Available only with the Total Package. I am one of the top club photographers in the U.S.

& much much more...

Do you REALLY want to learn how to maximize Photoshop for what you can do with it?! 

Always wonder how the best of the best do what they do?  There's a whole world around us filled with consciously created visual appeal (advertising, marketing..) and we're all influenced by it whether we know it or not.  I'll take you inside the design workflow and show you how to use Photoshop through countless dozens of practical exercises (this is in addition to all of the basic & technical Photoshop 'skills' training) so you can start to produce on this 'universal' level.

What you want to do as a designer is end up with impressive visual results that communicate the exact idea or general concept you had in mind; I show you many ways to get there and what tools to use.   Put my quality training to use and log the hours in Photoshop and you will skate ahead (it is imperative you do this as much as you can if you want to be an advanced amateur or pro). 

I can't do your actual designing for you, but when you apply your new education, the power & leverage of a faster learning curve (and insight on how you can produce real graphic design) is now in your hands.  So go for it tiger.  Show 'em what you can do with the #1 image editing program in the world (and your vision) and the Photoshop Designer Training!

Hello Mr. Williams, I just want to say how great your tutorials are, they really have help me to discover a lot in Photoshop, I'm new in the Design Industry, and a While back I purchased the Photoshop designer from you, It's fantastic and very very helpfull. I know i have made a great purchase.
Leonel27@ministro.org

Now any even slightly savvy computer user can produce quality design and understand Photoshop in minimal time.  A whole new world does await you.  Learn how to express yourself: visually while mastering the pure digital power of Photoshop.

I teach you the things they won't even teach you in graphic design school (where on earth can you even start to learn the techniques of designing movie posters?!)  Learn to use Photoshop that will produce powerful and quick results.  Even if you are an intermediate Photoshop user, you are guaranteed to have countless "aha" moments throughout the training program.

What is your potential?

Each person is unique and has many things to express.  What do you have to express?  Maybe you just need the right tools!  Tools are leverage and knowledge is power (these are Universal Truths).  You now have the opportunity to "take the bull by the horns" with Photoshop as you become it's master.  This training will get you there and covers it all to give you that Photoshop power that you dream of.

Don't reinvent the wheel (stubbornly learning yourself), but rather harness the state of mind and knowledge of others who are already there (insider techniques and workflow) so you too can tap into the full freedom of creativity to express yourself and your visions.  It is truly a great feeling to effectively express yourself this way-Visually.  To be able to create design that not only makes you feel good but SELLS and meets industry quality standards.  Remember that with your permission, I will be your mentor.

Knowledge = Power  and $ = Power....so you figure it out!

The bottom line?  It's really your portfolio that counts.  The showcase of your skills to primarily yourself (I think) or your clients.  It all comes down to what you can do rather than what a piece of paper says (or what you say you can do!).  And what you can do comes down to what you know.  We are in a results driven society (esp. on the internet now).  A degree can be important and a solid mark on your resume, BUT IF YOU CAN'T PRODUCE you'd better start or it doesn't matter if you have a degree or not (GET OUT THE KITCHEN!).  Employers & clients are looking for people who can get the job done.  Whatever your reason, with the Photoshop Designer Training, you will now be able to start designing and developing your own portfolio or "book" in almost no time!  And that's making the most use of of Photoshop!

I want you to be inspired by my work and who you are learning from.  I have a true passion for Photoshop and graphic design; the very thought of making a new design makes me tingle with joy.  The idea of the new boundaries which I've yet to break and explore in design thrills me!  The further I go, the further I realize I have yet to go (=it's time to get started if you haven't!) and I want you to have that same level of appreciation for the art.

Are you a visual person? 

There is lots of money to be made in design.  This training will help get you there.  Look around you; everywhere you go you see billboards, magazines, movie posters, ads, flyers, brochures; all of these had to made by someone and they are getting paid for it; why not you too?  Advertisements and website's today need to attract and hold people's attention and companies are looking for qualified designers.  This is your chance to get going in the right direction and FAST.  Here is someone who took my training to get the job done himself...

"As a documentary and educational film maker, funds have always been scarce and I could rarely afford to have one-sheets, video covers and so on designed by an outside source. So, I decided to start making them myself and picked up a copy of Photoshop.." "..Although I stumbled around and picked up a few basics on my own such as the concept of layering, learning Photoshop without help was intimidating and frustrating... a bit like trying to learn to fly an F-18 without an instructor! Specifically, the Photoshop program began to come alive when I found your site and began to learn about Gradients, the Pen, Erasure and Magic Wand tools, as well as a host of other tools.."   ..."In addition to learning how to create posters and the like, I've also created my own company web site using Photoshop elements as well as several other sites for my productions.  Even though I'm really just a beginner and have a long way to go, all of this has happened very quickly. Photoshop is actually quite easy and fast to use, once you have the right instructor!  Orion, thank you for your magnificent website and for all your help in opening up a whole world for me in graphic design!" Best wishes, Jim Myer jim@hicomm.tv

Sample Tutorial...

Note that I usually don’t give you exact color coordinates. This is because I want you to be thinking as a Photoshop designer and it also helps develop your eye if you want to go exactly off of me (hehe). Remember you can open a document in Photoshop and use the eyedropper tool in the color chooser for your gradient stops to get the exact color your looking for from any open document in the workspace.  After you have chosen your color stops to look something like this (4-5 of them in slightly different light purple shades) name your gradient and click New.

Now go ahead and swipe at an angle across the background layer.

Now that you’ve created the nice pink gradient and swiped it at a diagonal on your background layer; go ahead and get your main character. This is going to be a nice portrait design and the better the quality of your original source images = the much better end quality potential of the design.

On the source image document you’ll need to get a selection of your star character. You can use many methods within Photoshop. Here I’m using the magic wand (‘W’) on a medium tolerance of 20. This will select the background maroon pixels.

Now you can right click and choose select inverse to close in on the desired image. The art of the selection is a worthy endeavor because I myself an still striving to perfect it.  It really depends on what situation you are in because there are a multitude of tools that you can use to get a perfect selection. These are covered in the TutorialKey training program.

Now switch to the moVe tool and drag your selection (from within the selected area) over to the document that you’re working on. In this case I’ve brought over two different images of my friend from the same professional photo shoot.

Being very experienced in Photoshop I know that I have powerful blending modes that will instantly make a perfect match into the design as you will soon see.

I used the circular marquee tool holding down the shift key for a perfect circle and moved it into exact position by clicking within the circle to get the circular selection in place above the object.

Use the moVe tool and drag it over into the design.

Now be aware of your layer order. You may have to move it below the top layers in the layers palette (depends on which layer you were last on) because in this case, we want it as part of the background (naturally). Try out some different blending modes. There are several that will work in this case...find something that you like.

Here is the power of the blending modes like you’ve never seen them. Since we have such a clean source image, duplicate it (like I usually do) and change the blending mode of the replicate layer to Hard Light (it will depend on your actual source images). This creates a perfect higher contract immediately by mixing the light levels of the two layers. Hard Light (& Overlay) is my favorite blending mode just because it’s hardcore and effective for most circumstances I’m in. Here it just creates a healthier glow with shinier skin!

Soft light works here to blend this duplicate image (which I’ve used the moVe tool to place it over and a little under off to the right). You could also just lower the opacity........

a few steps later...

...Now let’s add a little more vector balance to this design to top it off even more. This is just taking it to the next level. Can you feel the balance of bitmap (ie. photo) and vector (ie. text, shape)? In graphic design you want to create feelings and emotion that synergize with your target audience. These are created in a visual manner but can trigger internal emotions and (hopefully) positive references or associations from a person’s internal state. Ok, I got an “A” in psychology at U of Hawaii Manoa.

Just use the brush on a spaced apart setting (move the slider bar to the right from its condensed default) and maybe some ‘Scattering’ in that dialog box or Angle/Size Jitter under Shape Dynamics.

The goal here is to add just the right balance of feminine power and beauty so don’t create too many condensed flowers. Oh yes, make sure you create a new blank layer to paint these onto with your foreground color of choice (here...a pure dove white..interesting how it becomes more than just ‘white’).

Change the blending modes if you want. Either way you can’t really harm the design at this level and a screen effect will also work nicely.  You can see how the selected flowers start to mix light with the layers beneath on Overlay.

You can duplicate the layer, Ctrl click on the layer icon and then swipe the background purplee gradient across (that we’ve created earlier) to fill the flowers with the same color theme purple. This is also another option (taught in some other tutorials also)...and then changing the blending mode. Turn the layers off and on with the eyeballs in the layers palette.

To finish off the design you can add an inner stroke to the background layer. Click on the background layer in the layers palette (our perrty pastel gradient) and click on the lower left icon to bring up your first option of Stroke to go right to the Stroke layer style dialog box. Choose a Fill Type of Gradient and then choose a color gradient that has something in common with the design.
 

Change the angle if you want and use either linear or reflected to cover the entire width of the stroke (border). You can also change the scale to sharpen the effect or soften it out.

Use the white flowers or the gradient ones..it’s up to you. I can’t believe I’m teaching this! These are the inside secrets that no one will share with you...it makes me feel a little vulnerable but for a good cause-your education!  Enjoy!

iPSDirectory      Photoshop Downloads Pkg.

Photoshop Designer Package

-PSDLoad Package (100's of Royalty-Free Downloads & more-$39 Retail)

-Inside The Design DVD

-Techniques/Montages DVD

-Nuera/C-Poster Genre 2 DVD Set ($29 value)

-Photoshop CS Features & Tutorials CD ($15 value)

-iPSD Flyer Series Collection (60 .psd designs w/annotations) ($29 value)

-2000 Free Images CD

- Unlimited iPSDirectory Download Access (over 300 designs & 900 MB of finished graphic designs in the interactive .psd format) ($39 retail value)

-42 PhotoshopDesign.NET & 60 Basic PS tutorials ($49 value- Now both on 628 pages of pdf with the included in your PSDownLoad Package)

-60 Photoshop CS tips

Basic Training comes with the Total Package.

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