
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Create text, in Photoshop, that provides absolute and unambiguous contrast with everything in the composite image behind it. Automatically.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.