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The Newsletter of Things Deke: May 04, 2011

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Well, it's been a busy week. Tuesday, I recorded Chapter 15, "Lighting Your Scene," of my upcoming video course Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Scenes, which should be out sometime in May for my video publisher lynda.com. In this chapter, we transform this base Maya model, created by a member of lynda.com's rockin' graphics department, Paul Roper:

. . . into the following piece of photo-realistic artwork. (Click the image to let its 3D loveliness consume your screen.)

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Hello friends: Just a note to let you know that I finished recording my modest Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Fundamentals video course for lynda.com. I say "modest" because, instead of 250 movies (as in the case of my unexpectedly epic Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced), this course will be a mere 65 movies. Which means you can absorb it in a couple of days.

I don't mean "modest" in scope. These 65 movies pack an enormous amount of information. They introduce you to the world of 3D in Photoshop CS5 Extended. They teach you how to work with new disciplines, approaches, and tools. And they introduce you to a new vocabulary. Remember when you first learned what a layer mask was? Well, multiply that by five and you have a sense of what's in store.

The above graphic is the final image from Chapter 5, "Designing and Applying Materials." Read more » 

A quick note to let those of you who may be interested know: I just now arrived in Ventura, CA, at the recording studios of my esteemed video publisher lynda.com. Tomorrow I begin work on what promises to be a four-part comprehensive and (more importantly) comprehensible series on 3D in Photoshop, beginning with Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Fundamentals.

This particular graphic happens to hail from an upcoming Deke's Techniques movie, created in Photoshop CS5 Extended with a little help from Illustrator (as you'll learn in May when that movie goes live). But, hey, it'll do in a pinch.

If you have any 3D trials or tribulations that are troubling you, I invite you to comment here. I'll be working on the various pieces of this series for the next few months, so suggestions are welcome. Read more » 

'Tis the Season, so I suppose 'tis likewise a bit optimistic to think squillions of folks are paying attention to my site this week. But, hey, what with the solstice and the full moon and the lunar eclipse and everything else that's been going on these last few days, anything could happen.

So I figured I'd write and let you know that I managed to wrap up my final general-training CS5 video course before the end of 2010. The course in question, Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery, won't go live until late January, but my work on it is done. While it's just eight chapters long, it comprises 134 movies. (Which, frankly, is diminutive by my standards.) And as usual, the course sports all-new project files, including the incredibly uncool one below.

Naturally, this course will be part of the massive and exhaustive lynda.com Online Training Library. In the meantime, here's the breakdown: Read more »