As you traverse through the paintings you learn about techniques as well. Some of the things you will learn to do is to build a stone wall, create neon signs, create rust, show fading reflections, adding grime, create a manhole cover, and many, many other things. These all take you to his latest release "Lunch in Tiburon." For his final image, he then explores his complex work, Damen.

Chapter 10 features tutorials. Now that you have seen what he has done in his many works, it is now your turn to try your hand. This chapter contains a series of tutorials that you can follow. In fact when you register your book, you can download the PSD files to work with. Some are simple and some are complex. All of them are designed to let you explore many of the techniques he has highlighted in the book.

The five additional chapters that contain 116 additional pages are online and in the form of tutorials that cover brushes, channels, filters, layers, and pen tool patterns. These are effectively like getting personal instruction from the artist himself. Remember I made mention of him having some file management skills? His 35 page layers PDF will show you how he manages to reuse items for the creation of new work.

I was glad to see Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy - Digital Painting being released. I know that the author has had previous books published; in fact he is credited with being a part of the very first Photoshop book when the product was first released, but the prior ones were for previous versions of the software and are currently out of print.

I have been a big fan of his work, and as such I am a big fan of his book. So I recommend that you go off and take a look at his website, and if you are comfortable working in Photoshop, then I highly recommend this book. Even if you are not as comfortable with Photoshop, perhaps just reading the book will inspire you.