Deke's Techniques 110: Making Synthetic Lightning in Photoshop
This week, I show you how to create wicked cool tendrils of sizzlingly realistic lightning from whole cloth. Complete with ambient contact lighting.
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Deke's Techniques 107: Drawing a Ninja Turtle Nose in Photoshop
At first glance, it seems like this week's technique is just about chasing down an Internet meme. But Deke reveals some key concepts that you can use for any digital tattoo.
Happy Birthday, Adobe Illustrator!
Deke's Techniques 106: Drawing a Highly Graphic Explosion
In just two days, Adobe Illustrator turns 25 years old. Today, I celebrate Illustrator and the wider world of vector art with a technique that'll blow you away.
Deke's Techniques 104: Creating a Vanity Frame
In this week's free movie, Deke shows you how to create a perfectly spaced frame around a graphic (whatever it may be) inside a Photoshop file.
Deke's Techniques 102: Drawing with the Reshape Tool
Happy Valentine's Day. In honor of the occasion, I've come up with a tasty red candy of a technique, based on a misunderstood feature called the Reshape tool.
Deke's Techniques 100: Creating an Dual-Focus Hybrid Image
Learn how to create a specific and famous flavor of optical illusion. When viewed from far away, the image appears as one thing; when viewed close up, it appears as another.
A couple of videos on Photoshop CS6
Deke's Techniques 099: Creating Great Movie Poster Credits in Illustrator
Have you heard about Warichu inside Adobe Illustrator? Unless you live in Japan, I'm guessing not. And yet it's just the ticket for formatting American movie poster credits.
Deke's Techniques 097: Creating Type that Inverts Anything Behind It
Create text, in Photoshop, that provides absolute and unambiguous contrast with everything in the composite image behind it. Automatically.
Deke's Techniques 095: Turning a Photo Into Line Art
This week, Deke shows how to turn an ordinary portrait into a line drawing. If nature didn't endow you with the ability to draw, Photoshop is the way to go.