Deke’s Techniques 071: Making a Person Emerge from Water
Deke’s Techniques 071: Making a Person Emerge from Water in Photoshop
Have you ever wanted to take a photograph of a client, friend, or loved one, and make that person appear to emerge from water, in Photoshop? Here's how.
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My Favorite New(?) Language, Shilgne

Submitted by deke on 19 May 2012 - 12:15am.

Was sitting around with my boys, aged 10 and 11. And we were having one of our usual elaborately fantastic conversations. (A new favorite: Is Origami Yoda real or just a figment of Dwight's imagination?)

Today's conversation went in the other direction, namely backward. Which is how we came up with a potentially new way to communicate, Shilgne. Which looks a little something like this:

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Deke’s Techniques 071: Making a Person Emerge from Water in Photoshop

Submitted by deke on 15 May 2012 - 12:15am.
Deke’s Techniques 071: Making a Person Emerge from Water

Have you ever wanted to take a photograph of a client, friend, or loved one, and make that person appear to emerge from water, in Photoshop? Like that she or he is looking at you from inside some sort of very happy natural hot springs? Well, sure you have.

And if not, at the very least, today's technique includes a comical intro.

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Photoshop reflection gone wrong

Submitted by deke on 10 May 2012 - 12:15am.

Last week, I posted a Deke's Techniques showing how to reflect text in water. Since then a bunch of my buddies at lynda.com have been reporting back sightings of the technique in action. (Whether the creators of these effects actually got the idea from me is very much in question.) One particularly unfortunate example has crossed my inbox so many times I figured I should just post it.

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Deke's Techniques 70: Joining Type to a Circle in Illustrator

Submitted by deke on 8 May 2012 - 12:15am.
Deke's Techniques 70: Joining Type to a Circle in Illustrator

Today marks my first-ever video recorded in Illustrator CS6. And it's all about a topic as old as the hills: the dark art of creating type along both the top and bottom of a circle. Which hasn't changed since, seriously, I don't know. Like when FreeHand was still a baby.

(Just joshing. FreeHand had type on a path back when Illustrator was nothing more than a point-text-making toddler.)

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My In-Depth and Revamped Video Series, "Photoshop CS6 One-on-One," Begins

Submitted by deke on 2 May 2012 - 12:00pm.

As of the posting of this article, you have 24 hours left to download the free public beta of Photoshop CS6. So if you haven't installed it yet, drop everything you're doing and start downloading!

To acquaint yourself with the new features, check out my free Photoshop CS6 Beta Preview course at lynda.com.

And if you're ready for the deep dive, check out Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals, the first in what will be a four-course video series on every single aspect of Photoshop CS6, presented in the order you need to learn it. This and other of my courses will appear every four to six weeks on lynda.com. Read more » 

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