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As you might imagine, I don't actually record each and every Deke's Techniques the same day it goes live. Frankly, I wish I had the next 27 in the can, but that isn't the case. At any given moment, I'm a just few ahead. Which is to say, this thing combines shear craziness with a small degree of relevance.

I only mention this because, today, I recorded some junk and stuff for next month. With any luck, you're going to love 'em. (Not to give too much away, but my summary of the next few weeks is superheros, cars, dancing girls, and spirals. Honestly, revisit this page in August and you'll be like, "Dude, you totally spilled the beans---and I didn't even know!")

Anyway, I'm distracting you from today's technique, which is magical and rad. Because today, I show you how to create an alien 3D temple, from utter and complete nothingness, using a depth map in Photoshop Extended. Here's the official description from lynda.com: Read more » 

Today, I'm offline on a personal adventure. And yet, I still manage to offer you a kind of adventure as well. In the form of Adventure Type in Photoshop.

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

This week, I show you how to make a synthetic rainbow, one that actually looks like an actual one, in Photoshop. If I were a silly little girl, I might posit the rainbow in back of a magical prancing unicorn. But I'm a silly little boy, so I set it in back of a highly aggressive, man-eating shark.

"Pardon?" I here you say. "How do you put a rainbow in back of a shark??" Watch the video and find out.

In the meantime, here's the official description from lynda.com: Read more »