deke.com posts about CS5.1

Deke's Techniques 141: Pimping Your Ride in Photoshop

Today I kick off Deke's Techniques: The Challenge with a new technique based on five from the past. Along the way, I'll transform a crap car into an awesome one!

Deke's Techniques 139: Turning Illustrator Path Outlines into Photoshop Shape Layers

This week, you'll increase your graphic super powers by turning the Illustrator path outlines from last week's project into independent shape layers in Photoshop.

Deke's Techniques 138: Creating a Superhero Shield in Adobe Illustrator

Just in time for the 4th of July, I show you how to create a shiny, reflective superhero shield in Illustrator. It's a long, intense technique, but it's super cool as well.

Deke's Techniques 112: Designing a Model Railroad Track in Illustrator

There are model railroad geeks. And there are vector graphics geeks. In this episode of Deke's Techniques, the two groups of geeks get to meet.

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.

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.

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.

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.