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Deke's Techniques 049: Designing an Indiana Jones Logo

Submitted by deke on 6 December 2011 - 12:15am.
Deke's Techniques 049: Designing an Indiana Jones Logo

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.

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I've Finally Begun Work on Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects

Submitted by deke on 12 August 2011 - 12:15am.

I've had a couple of questions about when I'll be releasing the last of my four-part video series on 3D in Photoshop for lynda.com, Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects. After all, I started the series nearly five months ago, so you'd think I'd be done by now. But it's been a busy Summer, and with one thing or another (including four Up and Running courses), I got distracted. But I'm finally getting back to it, and having an absolute blast I must say. For example, here's an image from Chapter 2 of the course, "Hand-Drawn Type." Don't you just want to reach out and photocopy it?

Hand-drawn 3D type in Photoshop

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Deke's Techniques 028: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

Submitted by deke on 12 July 2011 - 12:15am.
Deke's Techniques 028: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

Hey gang. This week's Deke's Techniques videos are all about adding text and shapes to a 3D stereoscopic photograph, like the one created in last week's technique. In today's free movie, I show you how to add text and shapes at different planes of depth. In the follow-up video at lynda.com, I show you how to tilt the text and shapes so they incline in 3D space toward the viewer.

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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #20: Free Transform

Submitted by deke on 1 December 2009 - 12:15am.
Feature #20: Free Transform

As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click on the rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Fortunately, there’s the Free Transform command, which lets you not just rotate but also scale, slant, and distort a layer in one continuous operation. Edt > Free Transform is one of Photoshop's most fundamental commands, with a keyboard shortcut to prove it: Ctrl+T (Cmd-T on the Mac). Read more » 

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Blurring Live Text with a Drop Shadow

Submitted by deke on 15 July 2008 - 12:01am.

I realize I owe you lovers of the graphic arts a Part 2 to my Illustrator Transparency, Photoshop Resolve article. (If that sounds familiar, it's because I copied and pasted that sentence from last week.) But given that not a single person has expressed a problem with my delaying Part 2 -- which makes me cry real, actual, enormous crocodile tears (below) -- I'm guessing you're okay waiting.

In the meantime, I discovered something quite by chance today that made me geek out and do the d'oh, slap-my-head, I-can't-believe-I-never-figured-that-out-before thing.

Here's the idea: Photoshop does not let you blur live text. Well, all right, that's a lie. Photoshop does let you blur live text if you first convert the text to a smart object. But that's a Big Italicized If. Converting text to a smart object restricts your access to it and requires you to edit the text in a separate window, which is an increduloppus painoloopamus in the hippopotamus. Read more » 

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