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 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.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #18: Smart Objects

Smart objects aren't all that smart. And they aren't objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things and keep them safe. The result: nothing you do can cause the image harm. This is Photoshop at its best.

"Photoshop CS4 Smart Objects" Begins