Creative Suite

Photoshop vs. Adobe Bridge: Beware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!

Submitted by deke on 15 April 2009 - 11:11pm.
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dekePod Episode 014: At fourteen, dekePod is officially a teenager. So it's fitting that the topic of this episode takes us into the somewhat adult and potentially salacious territories of sovereignty and privacy. I'm not talking cookies or spyware. Your trusted commercial software--the stuff you pay hundreds of dollars for--may be tracking your every move.

It's like this: Despite the many warnings to the contrary, we tend to imagine that our computers acquiesce to our collective control. No software goes unchecked; no program reveals our misdeeds. And yet, these are exactly the sorts of treasonous acts that a certain group of programs--known as digital asset managers, or DAMs for short--are designed to perform on a daily basis. Read more » 

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Martini Hour 004, In Which Deke Admits He Sounds Like an Old Fart

Submitted by colleen on 3 March 2009 - 12:34am.

In this episode of Martini Hour, we were just too darn focused on the content to even mention our beverage of choice. Perhaps it was something emerald, as indicated below. Like maybe something The Wizard himself might have consumed upon a lazy, languid, luxuriant evening in Oz. Regardless, this episode is full of important information, so please listen. And, as always, drink whatever you like.

Here's what's going on in the dekeLounge this week: Read more » 

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InDesign CS4 One-on-One

There's no better way to learn InDesign than with Graphic Master Deke at your side, taking you through hands on projects that will lead you to professional results. Each of the 12 lessons takes you through real world layout design projects, covering InDesign essentials like creating and flowing text; applying text, table, and object styles; drawing and importing artwork, and using InDesign's transparency and effects tools. You can reinforce your study by watching the companion video pieces that come on DVD. Read more » 

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LDC launches CS4U

Submitted by deke on 24 September 2008 - 12:16am.

For those of you who are looking for more than a brief dekePod intro to Photoshop CS4, I have more. Long term, way more. Short term, two movies. To find them, click here. It's all part of the new lynda.com CS4 University, which I have to say is great. (I mean, CS4U. That's so good!)

In a month or two, my piece will be a 16-movie series (including live action). We'd all love to publish the whole thing, right here right now. In fact, we were poised to do just that, but Adobe decided to prohibit us from sharing more than X% of any given series in advance of the ship date. It's a dopey policy--how does stopping us from grooving on CS4 mitigate the Adobe message (which is mostly mute)?--but the machinations of sanity and change churn slowly. So two movies is what you/we got.

I'll offer up both from YouTube in future posts. (Cuz I like you.) Read more » 

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A First Fast Look at Photoshop CS4

Submitted by deke on 23 September 2008 - 1:00am.

Good morning subscribers to deke.com,

Today, this very day, Adobe announced Creative Suite 4, the fourth in their line of Creative Suites. Here's some box art:

It's all enormously exciting. So exciting that, were I you, I would want to take a few minutes out of my busy day to check out what's in store. Which is why I created dekePod Episode 006: "Photoshop CS4, Buy or Die." Read more » 

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