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 136: Building a Sci-Fi Temple from Scratch in Photoshop CS6 Extended 3D

Today, I pay appropriate 3D homage to my alien overlords by building them a temple out of plain old earthly linear gradients and a little thing called a depth map.

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.

I Have FInished "Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals"

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.

My In-Depth and Revamped Video Series, "Photoshop CS6 One-on-One," Begins

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.