Creative Suite

Best Workflow CS5: The Ideal Color Settings for Photoshop and CS5

Submitted by deke on 11 May 2010 - 12:15pm.

All of my One-on-One products---whether videos or books---begin by encouraging you to adjust your Creative Suite color settings and load my custom keyboard shortcuts. The color settings file goes by the name Best Workflow (because, I argue, that's the resulting environment); the keyboard shortcuts are dekeKeys.

I've received requests to distribute both. Which is the purpose of today's post.

Photoshop CS5 recommended color settings

I explain how to make your own Best Workflow color settings today. I'll post dekeKeys CS5 as a free download next week. Read more » 

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It's Time to CS5

Submitted by colleen on 10 April 2010 - 8:16pm.

In case you missed the announcement of the announcement a couple of weeks ago, Monday is official CS5 announcement day. Adobe is inviting all to join them for the global online launch extravaganza, as well as promising to reveal ground-breaking, earth-shattering, world-peace-promoting (potentially), and office-furniture-designing (if the logo used in the image below is any indication) versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and more. The event starts at 8:00am PDT. Figure out what that means for your time zone; I'm still dealing with having to get up that early! It looks like the party will feature some familiar Friends of dekeOnline (FODOs), including Julianne Kost, Jason Levine, and Terry White. 

And of course, for us here in dekeVille... Read more » 

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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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