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True Photoshop Artist

This guy is amazing! Bert Monroy is a digital artist who can do amazing things with Photoshop! Below is an image he recently completed. This is not a photograph. This is a digital reproduction of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.  Fineart Images Damen
Here are the specs from his site on the image: Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline. The rest was created in Photoshop.

  • The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
  • The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
  • It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
  • The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
  • Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
  • Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
  • Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.

View the image for yourself here with detail images below. Then checkout some of his other works.