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Photoshopping the Great Masters

Submitted by deke on 14 May 2009 - 12:15am.
School of Athens

dekePod Episode 016: Hello, friend. Let's you and I get all collegiate and stuff and engage in some intellectually stimulating free-word association.

For example, I say High Renaissance. You say, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael. Very good!

But you're not done. You say, an unrivaled time of creative energy and unabashedly accurate representation of the human form. Ooh, I like that, keep it coming. The advent of secular humanism, say you, The rebirth of Classical Ideas! Read more » 

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Employing a Seamlessly Repeating Pattern

Submitted by deke on 13 May 2008 - 11:30pm.

In my last article, I explained how to create a tessellating tile pattern--that is to say, a pattern that repeats seamlessly, with no flaws and with guaranteed results. Here's the spoiler: It all hinges on the Offset filter. Really, that's all there is to it. Choose Filter > Other > Offset, and everything falls into place. For more information, check out the previous article.

At the end of that article (honestly, how many links do you need to it?), I promised to share with you some interesting ways to employ your seamlessly repeating pattern. And true to my word, that's precisely what I'm going to do now. Two ways to use a repeating tile pattern. Nothing more. Nothing less. Nothing more to say. Read more » 

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The Art of the Seamlessly Repeating Pattern

Submitted by deke on 13 May 2008 - 7:14pm.

In my two-part article "Creating a Photo-Realistic Line Drawing," I walked you through a flexible and highly effective technique that enables you to convert a photograph into a black-and-white line drawing, the results of which appear below. (Both Part 1 and Part 2 are available here in dekeStuff.)

Line art samples Read more » 

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