Deke's Techniques 195: Creating a Series of Warhol-Style Variations in Photoshop

This week, you'll see how to create Andy Warhol-style, serigraph-like riffs and even transform them into images that Andy never got a chance to dream of.

Deke's Techniques 194: Creating an Andy Warhol-Style Silkscreen Effect in Photoshop

Make a Warhol-style silkscreen effect the right way. For mass reproduction. Just as Andy would've wanted.

Deke's Techniques 028: Creating a Seamlessly Repeating Pattern in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to create a seamlessly repeating tile pattern in Photoshop, which involves as many applications of the Offset filter as it requires leaps of logic.

Deke's Techniques 026: Turning a Photo Into an Ink Drawing

This week, I show you how use an everyday average collection of smart filters to turn a high-contrast photograph into a credible ink drawing.

Deke's Techniques 021: Creating a High Key High Contrast Effect in Photoshop

This week I show you how to turn an untreated studio photograph into a high key, high contrast image with ultra-black shadows but nary a clipped highlight.

Deke's Techniques 019: Masking Highlights and Shadows in Photoshop

This week's 7-minute video shows you how to isolate the highlights and shadows from one image and blend them with those of another. It's quick, easy, and effective.

Deke's Techniques 015: Building a Synthetic Starfield from Scratch

This week, I show you how to create a galaxy of stars, solar flare, and space gas from a void of nothingness. In just 9 minutes, I offer you the Big Bang.

Deke's Techniques 013: Reflecting a Face in Shattered Glass

This week, Deke takes the photo of a screaming woman and reflects it into shattered glass. In the lynda.com members-only video, he adds a face to a tree.

dekeSpeak December 8, 2010

The Power of Multiple Martini Transformations in Photoshop

Photoshop CS5 Top 5: Puppet Warp

Photoshop is notorious for distorting reality. Which is ironic given its meager collection of distortion tools. Thanks to Puppet Warp, the folks who fret about us "Photoshopping" reality actually have something to fret about.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #1: Open and Save

Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other apps, Photoshop treats all image formats as native. Open and Save are the alpha and omega of imaging.