Winners (or "For the Love of Deke's Giant Head")
Submitted by colleen on 12 November 2008 - 3:12am.
Well, Deke and I finally crawled out from under our respective Channels and Masks rocks to have a discusssion about who did the most creative work with that sublime medium, Deke's giant head. The fact is, the participants were so awesome, we had to discuss our long term strategies for "consolation prizes" for about an hour and a half. It's probably not legal to send everyone a Bombay Saphire martini, so we'll just be raising our glasses at the moment. For now, the following shining lights of the dekOmmunity are our pics, each of whom wins a fabulous copy of Deke's Photoshop CS4 One-on-One.
(Since I'm writing this, I'm going to put my favorite of the three winners before the jump.) Dek-E is just so dang cute and true to Deke's sweet nature.
of course, Dr. Dekenfurter says something else about Deke's nature:
and then there's the one where I got the cool costume and the kickass weapon, leaving Deke to explain what the heck happened to his head:
The three winners should send their addresses to moi: colleen[at]deke[dot]com. For a glimpse at all the other fabulous entries, here's a link to the post. Thanks to all the awesome dekeOlympians for joining the festivities!
Comments
LDC
Deke, did you say that LDC is going to release some extra 1on1 videos today November 25th? I marked this in my calendar but I couldn't find anything extra.
I am berating
My producer as we speak.
"Where is my One-on-One series?" I am asking? I await a reply.
Thanksgiving
Well maybe they have it ready for your Thanksgiving. As a gift instead of turkey. Going sleep now man. Too late to be up 1:45
Photoshop Masks & Channels One on One book coming soon?
I've been waiting for this book for months! But the previews now say it's for CS4? How much value can a CS2 user get from the book?
Love your books, Deke!
Thanks!
Yes, there will be a C&M book
I'm working on it right now, 24/7, and it's the reason I've been a bit dark lately.
It will be updated for CS4, but channels and masks being what they are, about 80 percent of the stuff is applicable to CS2. (CS2 lacks quick selection tool, Refine Edge command, Masks palette, and a handful of other features. I would think you'd be able to work around those omissions.)
Here's the final composition from the lesson I'm working on now, It's all about the pen tool.
Can't wait. . .
Thanks, I'm looking forward to getting the book, then! I can't wait. . . but I will. . .
1On1
"Photoshop CS4 One-on-One (which internally, they are calling the dekeOpedia"
is this what I got with your book ACS4 1On1 or are these combined with the masking book that's due in December or is this something completely new. Hehe, I'm getting very excited.
Great
I'm so glad. I know the masking book is coming up as well so I will get sister to the one sitting on my table APSCS4 1On1. Can't wait. Deke I'm very impress with your work. 2 reasons.
1) I used to watch TTs about 6-7 years ago. Only few courses including all yours were great the rest d I was falling asleep. It's not the exercise and it's not the subject. Is the person that demonstrates and teaches the product. You know after working all day I come home when it's quiet. You know. Partner is sleeping already, dog stopped chasing everything in the house and neighbors stop moving the furniture at 2 AM, I sit down for couple hours and watch my course. You are keeping me in. You got my attention. Not because you are the master of it, that too, but because you keep in clear mind and thinking. There is only one guy from lynda. com that ever achieved the same. Chris Orwig. Young and pasionate. I like that. (we don't have to say that I have ADD but pssst) Seriously. I love your courses. No harms to others but listening to Collin Smith from PScafe, uuuu, aaah, boom boom. Same tonal voice for more than 10 hours. My partner is joking that she could listen to him once doing her yoga session.
2) it's again about your approach to people. No matter what audience you have, they can go by. 10 year PS pro can find interesting things as well newbie and you don't judge them. That's the point. You don't You said it clearly. for you newbies it's not enough to watch this you need more. Other Morons promising that you can be pro after 22 steps start PS, open, Save, close. - that's 4 what's left. You don't do that and I like that more than the above. Honesty is very rare. People don't say anymore to each other that you are wrong. You can't do it this way etc. People use sweet words to encourage others rather than to point them in right direction. So you have that and I'm glad I'm part of this (at least for moment being) and I think it makes you happy that new people sign up here and you give them your time. You are not afraid to share. Like someone could replace you. Yeah right. I always escape in my cyber dekeworld and that's what makes me so happy. I thought I just share this with others. ( don't kill me)
Thanks for your kind comments!
Funny about what you wrote: I'm also a big Chris Orwig fan. When I was considering switching from Total Training to lynda.com, it was a big move for me. But then I watched a few Chris Orwig videos and I knew that LDC was where I belonged.
And he's a genuinely good guy. We should get him blogging on this site.
I agree, let's get him here
Absolutely. Btw. I just saw your complete tutorial on adobe.tv One thing that makes me kind of wonder is from you tutorial on Lynda.com APSCS4 new features. You are showing drag and drop with shift key to register. It's the road with the red sky. I'm not sure if you prepared the the road picture where you use some gradient tool and mask some portion of the image to get result what you did. You drag and drop and immediately the sky blended with the foreground. Then you add the moon and inverted it to add some creepy mood. Well I was looking in CS4 if there is any new feature that would allow you actually blend 2 pictures without any preparation together. This was possible with photomerge and other tools before but this was not good and you seem didn't use this. You didn't have even any layer active, maybe your selection on the road picture was feathered all the way to 100 points. Than you just dropped it. IDK Can you explain this?
And here is one more. I was working on some pics in ps for painter work (my dog) and with my pen I accidentally hovered over some menu where it show something like preview picture in 32 bit. Hmmm. I wanted to find that menu. I don't know what I did but if you know what I'm talking about I would like to know what I've seen. I played with B&W presets and it was somewhere with layer and channel panels. I don't know drives me nuts if I don't know. Anyway enjoy your weekend.