Photoshop

Deke’s Techniques 072: Creating an Upside-Down Face Effect

Submitted by deke on 22 May 2012 - 12:15am.
Deke’s Techniques 072: Creating an Upside-Down Face Effect

Today's episode of my weekly thing is a bit out of the ordinary. In it, I show you how to create an optical effect in which a person's face at first appears to be normal, but when flipped around does not. When I showed this technique to a few folks at my beloved video publisher, the reviews were mixed. Some said: "That is weird." Others: "How is this a Photoshop technique?" And still more: "When exactly did you start pounding the hard drugs? Please let us know when we should intervene." Read more » 

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Camera Raw JPEG editing for the iPhoto Faithful

Submitted by colleen on 21 May 2012 - 8:13pm.

I know most of you dekeOtopians work and play and generally exist inside Photoshop. But for those of you who prefer the photo-wrangling power of iPhoto but want to still explore the pixel-domination of Adobe Camera Raw (or pure Photoshop for that matter), I made this quick video to explain how to set Preferences in both apps so that can actually happen. 

The question was inspired by a member of lynda.com who saw some cool movies about what ACR could do for JPEGs but still wanted to use iPhoto as her photo database. The movie format was inspired by listening to Deke for several years. So I decided to take on three whole minutes of training while Deke recorded his entire Illustrator One-on-One course in the lyndaBooth next door. It gave me new insight into what both authors and viewers (and editors) endure in the video training process! Read more » 

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Deke’s Techniques 071: Making a Person Emerge from Water in Photoshop

Submitted by deke on 15 May 2012 - 12:15am.
Deke’s Techniques 071: Making a Person Emerge from Water

Have you ever wanted to take a photograph of a client, friend, or loved one, and make that person appear to emerge from water, in Photoshop? Like that she or he is looking at you from inside some sort of very happy natural hot springs? Well, sure you have.

And if not, at the very least, today's technique includes a comical intro.

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

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Photoshop reflection gone wrong

Submitted by deke on 10 May 2012 - 12:15am.

Last week, I posted a Deke's Techniques showing how to reflect text in water. Since then a bunch of my buddies at lynda.com have been reporting back sightings of the technique in action. (Whether the creators of these effects actually got the idea from me is very much in question.) One particularly unfortunate example has crossed my inbox so many times I figured I should just post it.

Suit and/or shit yourself, preferably with an alien arm Read more » 

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My In-Depth and Revamped Video Series, "Photoshop CS6 One-on-One," Begins

Submitted by deke on 2 May 2012 - 12:00pm.

As of the posting of this article, you have 24 hours left to download the free public beta of Photoshop CS6. So if you haven't installed it yet, drop everything you're doing and start downloading!

To acquaint yourself with the new features, check out my free Photoshop CS6 Beta Preview course at lynda.com.

And if you're ready for the deep dive, check out Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals, the first in what will be a four-course video series on every single aspect of Photoshop CS6, presented in the order you need to learn it. This and other of my courses will appear every four to six weeks on lynda.com. Read more » 

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