I've Finally Begun Work on Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects

Deke's Techniques 050: Inventing Custom Starbursts

In this week's movie, Deke shows you two ways to create custom flares, blasts, and explosions using nothing more than a star-shaped path and a few effects.

Deke's Techniques 048: Creating a Shooting Star in Illustrator

This week, I explore one of the oldest and best features in Adobe Illustrator, blends. Which are precisely what you need to create the brilliant effect of shooting stars.

Deke's Techniques 035: Removing People with Image Stacks

This week, I show you how to merge multiple exposures of a single scene and wipe out all of the moving stuff (namely, the people) using the little-known image stacks.

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Deke's Techniques 033: Creating a Talk Show-Style Curtain

This week, I show you how to create a "talk show-style" curtain. Like the kind Johnny Carson used to walked through. Back when people watched TV.

Deke's Techniques 031: Splitting and Modifying 3D Meshes

This week, I show you how to take a basic 3D pie chart, split its meshes, color its slices, and otherwise make it a tangible slice of business-graphics reality.

Deke's Techniques 030: Creating a 3D Pie Chart

This week, I show you how to take some basic spreadsheet data, graph it in Illustrator, and extrude that graph in lustrous 3D detail in Photoshop CS5 Extended.