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dekeAdvice: Getting Your dekeLove On

Submitted by colleen on 9 February 2012 - 12:15am.

It's that time of year, dekeIntines, For some reason, our culture is convinced that sometime in mid-February, when the holiday madness is just behind us and spring fever is on the horizon, that it's suddenly and somewhat randomly the best time to think about love. So to get you in the mood for this arguably arbitrarily designated Day of Adoration, I've gathered together a collection of dekeAdvice gems, all of which are centered thematically around romantic love. Or love in general. Or arguably unnatural love for a software application. No matter. Go with me here. I'm working a theme. To get you in the mood, here is the most tasteful Valentine image in this post:

A tasteful simple heart-shaped declaration of love

Want to know how to draw that perfect heart in Illustrator and other sundry Photoshop-based acts of love? Read on: Read more » 

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Something New This Way Comes

Submitted by deke on 10 July 2009 - 12:16am.
Bushes in the bushes

Hey gang! I (Deke) am here to announce two things:

First, I never did get around to posting the very first dekePod pilot, "It's Your Money, Scan It!" in which a chubbier version of me explains how to capture and edit money (as sponsored by the good people at iStockphoto). Not because the technique is illegal (check out rulesforuse.org) or that it features the Bushes emerging from the bushes (they used to do that). But because the video is out-of-date and low-res. Even so, it's an entertaining episode. And in Photoshops CS3 and CS4, you can reproduce the technique by opening your money in Camera Raw instead of ImageReady.

Second, as you may recall, dekePod recently suffered an untimely death. But the concept isn't so much deceased as undead. And on Tuesday of next week (mark your calendars for July 14, Bastille Day!), dekePod claws its way out of its gone-too-soon grave and emerges as an entirely new creature. One filled with AM vim and teeny-bopper vigor. It's as if dekePod has been squeaky-cleaned by an issue of Tiger Beat magazine. Read more » 

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dekeOnline News: May 4, 2009

Submitted by deke on 4 May 2009 - 11:00am.

Hello friends of dekeOnline,

I have much to announce in this issue! I take you on a deep-sea diving excursion with dekePod, I unveil the longest video series ever released on lynda.com, and finally, my sidekick Colleen and I have a rousing chat with Russell Brown and John Nack on Martini Hour. In short, I offer you a feast for your mind and your senses.

dekePod Takes the Ultimate Plunge

dekePod 015: Photoshop and the Lost Undersea Channel

Have you ever taken a camera underwater? I've used a few disposable underwater cameras and they don't include a flash. Which is crazy, because if there was ever a place where you need a strobe, it's underwater. Water and the distance filters away light and colors, starting with red, then orange, then yellow, leaving a world of greens and blues. How do you bring those colors back? I explain in dekePod 015: "Photoshop and the Lost Undersea Channel." Read more » 

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dekeOnline Celebrates Its 44th "Weke"

Submitted by deke on 20 April 2009 - 1:12pm.

Which is cause for celebration, of course. But it's also my way of saying, much may have happened since the last time you visited deke.com:

New Slickly Produced (and Somewhat Alarming) dekePod Video
For example, did you know that the mild-mannered Adobe Bridge might well be gobbling up the very last gigabytes of your hard drive and exposing your misdeeds? To learn more, check out dekePod 014: "Photoshop vs. Adobe Bridge--Beware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!"

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The Droplet Song: MP3 & Lyrics

Submitted by deke on 29 March 2009 - 12:00am.

Before it became about droplets, The Droplet Song was about you. It struck me that a really genuine love song -- one that cared about you more than it cared about itself -- would start off by thanking you for just being there. Hence, the first line I wrote is the first line I sing: "Let me thank you for checking out my thing." Other love songs lament, they plead, they get all whiney and stupid and morbidly crybaby. Mine just tells it like it is: You're awesome, thanks for stopping by, let's stir some of that soulful shit, baby.

Somehow, I'm thinking that now is the perfect moment for an image of a preening seagull to interrupt my narrative:

It was when I (in my mind's eye) saw my song's love wrapped in liquid that the underlying meaning of the piece became apparent. Because, by then, the droplets were everywhere. Read more » 

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