Photo-realist Bert Monroy is one of my closest friends in the industry. It isn’t just that Bert is a regular, down-to-earth guy. Or that we’ve shared some great times in half a dozen different countries. But Bert was responsible for my entry into the Photoshop arena. Two decades ago—years before the two of us actually met—Bert unwittingly helped a 28-year-old me get my first copy of Photoshop. For free. What a guy!

(Check out the podcast above. Note that it starts with an ad or two. Be patient.)

But real friends are rarely business partners, and as these things go, Bert and I have a sketchy sense of each other’s professional whereabouts. I only recently managed to invite Bert to join in on Martini Hour (see episodes 17 and 21). And he kindly reciprocated with an invitation to his weekly video podcast, Pixel Perfect, produced by Revision3. To watch, just click the giant play button above. The result is some excellent chemistry, as witnessed in the still image below. (Gosh, I have perky breasts.)

I start this week (last Tuesday) by demonstrating the many wondrous perspective-matching abilities of Photoshop’s Vanishing Point filter. Next week I’ll show you how to create a mask in perspective. As for the week after that, you’ll just have to tune in to see.

(Oh, and I don’t really write the Photoshop Bible. I did once but not anymore. Nowadays I write a series of One-on-One books for my good friends at O’Reilly.)