deke.com posts about CS5

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 134: Adding a Border to an Image in Illustrator

This is the day that Deke's Techniques amps up from casual to serious. Because this very day, I begin in earnest to kick some seriously vector-based ass.

Deke's Techniques 132: Adding Photographic Texture to Vector Type in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to take a couple of cloud photographs and cram them into some vector-based text objects, inside Adobe Illustrator.

Deke's Techniques 130: Head Shrinking in Photoshop

The title speaks for itself. This week, I give guy a little head, quite literally (pull your mind out of the gutter!), in Photoshop.

Deke's Techniques 128: Creating Silky Smooth Skin in Photoshop

Today I offer a classic retouching technique. I take a photograph of a lovely woman and make her skin look wonderfully, reasonably, and altogether realistically smooth.

Deke's Techniques 127: Creating an Upside Down Face Effect

This week, we explore the realm of optical illusion. Specifically, I show you the power and process of placing rightside-up features on an upside-down model.

Deke's Techniques 125: Making a Person Emerge from Water in Photoshop

Have you ever wanted to take a photograph of a client, friend, or loved one, and make that person appear to emerge from water, in Photoshop? Here's how.

Deke's Techniques 123: Joining Type to a Circle in Illustrator

Today marks Deke's first-ever video recorded in Illustrator CS6. And it's all about a topic as old as the hills: how to create type along both the top and bottom of a circle.

Deke's Techniques 121: Reflecting Type in Water

In this week's free Deke's Techniques, Deke reflects on how to make it appear as though text is mirrored in rippled water.

Deke's Techniques 119: Rendering Type in Brushed Metal in (Good Old But Also Recently New) Photoshop

Today I show you how to render type in brushed metal using a couple of smart filters and some layer effects.

Deke's Techniques 118: Rendering Type in Smoke in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to render type in smoke (as featured in my Photoshop CS6 movies). It's easy to do and you can edit your text any time you like.