Deke's Techniques 094: Capturing a Real-Life Cast Shadow

It's one thing to impeccably mask an image into a new scene. It's another to get the masked image to interact with its new environment. What it needs is a shadow.

Deke's Techniques 091: Removing Unwanted People from a Photo with Photoshop

In this first-anniversary episode of Deke's Techniques, I show you how to remove unwanted people from a photo and leave a pristine background in their place.

Deke's Techniques 089: Creating a Stained-Glass Ornament

This week, I yield forth A Special Holiday Gift: specifically, a precious stained-glass ornament. What it lacks in stature in makes up for in pure training mass.

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Deke's Techniques 088: Masking with Photoshop's Blunt Instruments

Today I show you how to muscle your way through a mask, and a complex one at that. All it takes is a few blunt tools, lots of brute force, and perseverance.

Deke's Techniques 086: Designing an Indiana Jones Logo

If you're craving real Photoshop adventure, this week's video is just what you seek. Deke creates a classic Indiana Jones-style logo, complete with a bending gradient.

Deke's Techniques 084: Drawing Rays of Light in Photoshop

This week, I build further on my completely fabricated but no less green energy project, adding an unnatural but sustainable starburst glow around a lightbulb.

Deke's Techniques 082: Tracing an Image with Path Outlines

Forget the Pen tool. Selecting a complex object without relying on the Byzantine manipulation of anchor points and control handles is a handy way to trace stuff in Photoshop.

Deke's Techniques 079: Rendering a Portrait in Type

Is a portrait worth a thousand words? This week, I show you how to superimpose layers of text over a face to create an image that's literal and visceral at the same time.

Deke's Techniques 077: Creating a Synthetic Rainbow

This week, I bring on the screen magic, creating not just a synthetic rainbow, but also a floating and highly aggressive skyshark. It's the stuff of legend.

Deke's Techniques 076: Miniaturizing the World in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to make the world small, as if you---quite by contrast---have become inexplicably and fantastically HUGE. (Use your newfound powers wisely.)