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My Latest Video Course, Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects, Is on Its Way

Submitted by deke on 24 September 2011 - 12:15am.

Update: This 5-hour and 51-minute video course is now live at lynda.com. If you get a chance to watch it, please let me know what you think!

This coming Tuesday (September 27 October 4, 2011), my beloved video publisher lynda.com releases the last in my four-course series on 3D in Photoshop, titled Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects. In this course, I show you how to create a total of seven 3D type effects---all covering different disciplines, design needs, and approaches---entirely in Photoshop and altogether from scratch.

Watch the above movie for more info.

Meanwhile, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, here are 7,000:

Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects, murder mystery

For example, this one's a poster for a vintage murder-mystery movie. Read more » 

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I've Begun Work on My Next Photoshop Masking Course

Submitted by deke on 12 September 2011 - 7:17am.

Just a note to let you know that I've begun work on my next video course for lynda.com, which will be called Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Fundamentals. The course is slated to be 9 chapters long, and it will set in motion the stuff that you need to know to mask a photographic image with absolute authority against any and all backgrounds. Many courses will follow, including (but not limited to): Advanced Blending, The Pen Tool, and the ever-thrilling Hair. The last of which will include "tough stuff"!

At Photoshop World, I had many folks come up to me and tell me that my two back-to-back Channels & Masks sessions were their favorite at the conference. Which was awesome, because those sessions were based on my old content. This next course is a new take on things. Here's how it all starts, with an artificially colored foreground set against a similarly adjusted background. (Based on a Fotolia image from TessarTheTegu, BTW.) It's a wacky multichannel effect. And, really, isn't he just the duckiest toucan you ever laid eyes on? I love how he has pretend teeth to scare off the predators. (That's not Photoshop, that's natural!) Don't you just want to take him home and make bird-love to him? I know, me too.

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I've Finally Begun Work on Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects

Submitted by deke on 12 August 2011 - 12:15am.

I've had a couple of questions about when I'll be releasing the last of my four-part video series on 3D in Photoshop for lynda.com, Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects. After all, I started the series nearly five months ago, so you'd think I'd be done by now. But it's been a busy Summer, and with one thing or another (including four Up and Running courses), I got distracted. But I'm finally getting back to it, and having an absolute blast I must say. For example, here's an image from Chapter 2 of the course, "Hand-Drawn Type." Don't you just want to reach out and photocopy it?

Hand-drawn 3D type in Photoshop

And that's not the best of it. Read more » 

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Deke's Techniques 028: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

Submitted by deke on 12 July 2011 - 12:15am.
Deke's Techniques 028: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

Hey gang. This week's Deke's Techniques videos are all about adding text and shapes to a 3D stereoscopic photograph, like the one created in last week's technique. In today's free movie, I show you how to add text and shapes at different planes of depth. In the follow-up video at lynda.com, I show you how to tilt the text and shapes so they incline in 3D space toward the viewer.

Here's the official description from lynda.com: Read more » 

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Deke's Techniques 027: Making a Stereoscopic Photo

Submitted by deke on 5 July 2011 - 12:15am.
Deke's Techniques 027: Making a Stereoscopic Photo

As I write this, I've published 20 hours of video training on the topic of 3D imaging in Photoshop. (For those who may be curious, it begins with the 5-hour Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Fundamentals, about which you can learn more at lynda.com.) These movies are all about creating photorealistic 3D artwork from scratch. But what if you're not interested in 3D artwork? What if you want to create 3D photographs? Well then you're in luck, because that's precisely what this week's technique is all about.

Remember those old View-Master images? It's like that, only with glasses. Plus loads of fun and really easy.

In today's free video, I show you how to shoot two photographs---one for each of your naturally stereoscopic eyes---using a standard single-lens camera. And then I assemble them in Photoshop so that the composite image appears in everyday-average lifelike depth when viewed through a pair of red-cyan glasses, like the ones pictured below, provided by Fotolia.

3D glasses from the Fotolia image library

Red, white, and blue. What a fitting day-after-Fourth-of-July tribute! Meanwhile, here's the official description from lynda.com: Read more » 

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