Deke's Techniques 180: Creating a Jaunty Star of David in Illustrator

This week, Deke gets in the Hanukkah spirit and creates this festive, jaunty Star of David in Adobe Illustrator. All from a single circle. How awesome is that?

Illustrator Advanced on Its Way; Same Goes for Deke's Techniques

Deke's Techniques 179: Creating a Shiny Button with Inset Text in Photoshop

This week, I take the shimmering, glowing jewel that I created last week and turn it into a shimmering, glowing Panic button. Just in time for the crazy, kooky holidays.

Deke's Techniques 177: Creating a Shimmering Round Jewel in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to create something lovely and precious---specifically, a shimmering round jewel---entirely from scratch, inside Photoshop.

Deke's Techniques 175: Creating a Hand Turkey in Photoshop

Here in America, we have a long-standing tradition of giving thanks every November by tracing around our hands and decorating them like turkeys. This movie explains how.

Deke's Techniques 173: Designing a Double-Wave Line Pattern in Illustrator

Today, I show you how to create the components for an entwined-rope pattern that you can assemble into a cohesive whole using Illustrator's Pattern Brush feature.

Deke's Techniques 172: Creating 3D Punched Letters in Illustrator

Today I show you how to create punched-out 3D letters in Adobe Illustrator, turning the plain old word 'good' into something even better.

Deke's Techniques 171: The Headless Stranger, a Tale of Photoshop Horror

Halloween continues with a tutorial about how to lop the head off a guy, isolate him inside an alpha channel, and dissolve his legs against a new background. It's sick.

Deke's Techniques 168: Creating a Money-Like Design in Illustrator

This week, I show you not how to scan money. But rather how to draw your own. For your own private kingdom. With which to take over---The

Deke's Techniques 166: Creating a Continuous, Single-Line Spirograph in Illustrator

Today I show how you to create a Spirograph-like hypotrochoid from a single path outline. One that curls around and loops into itself like it will never stop. Ever.

Deke's Techniques 164: Turning a Pencil Sketch into Digital Ink in Photoshop

Today, I show you how to turn a hand-drawn pencil sketch into the Photoshop equivalent of digital ink. By which I mean d'ink, which of course precisely rhymes with Deke.

Deke's Techniques 163: Applying Custom Carve and Shadow Styles to Any Font

Today, I show you how to create and assign custom variations on the classic type styles Carved and Shadow to any typeface. And the text remains altogether editable.