Deke’s Techniques

Your weekly quick-fix of Deke, with ideas you may inspire or inform your own projects.

Color Grading in Camera Raw

Deke shows you how to apply color adjustments with the new Color Grading feature in Camera Raw (and Lightroom, too)

Illustrator on the iPad: Gradients and Repeats

Deke returns to Illustrator on the iPad one more time in order to build the sun of hope and civility with the Freeform Gradient tool and Repeat feature.

Illustrator on the iPad: The Drawing Tools

Deke explores the fun and distraction of Illustrator on the iPad, including the Pencil tool, the Pen tool, and the not-too-blobbety Blob brush.

Introducing Illustrator on the iPad

Deke celebrates the new year and his 10th season with a look at the actually fun and useful Adobe Illustrator for the iPad

Creating a Candy Cane Rhinoceros in Photoshop

Deke uses the candy cane pattern he created last week in Photoshop to make a festive holiday rhinoceros.

The New Line Tool in Photoshop 2021

Deke uses Photoshop's new, improved Line tool to create a candy cane pattern that may or may not end up on a rhinoceros.

A New Way to Unlock Stuff in Adobe Illustrator

Deke shows you how to use the new contextual Unlock feature in Adobe Illustrator 2021, such as it is.

Clearing the Illustrator Home Screen

Deke shows you how to hide "recent" thumbnails on the Adobe Illustrator home screen.

Clearing the Photoshop Home Screen

Deke shares some tips and tricks for showing and hiding the documents your Photoshop Home screen is showing and hiding, or not!

Turning Your Cat’s Eye Into a Dragon’s Eye (Changing Colors in Illustrator)

Deke finally finishes his cat eye project in Adobe Illustrator, only to find out, through the help of Global Swatches, it was a dragon all along!

Shading Your Cat’s Eye with a Gradient in Adobe Illustrator

Deke adds depth and detail to his cat eye project, using gradients and drop shadows in Adobe Illustrator.

Blending Reptile-Like Scales in Illustrator (revisited, now that most of the votes are counted)

Let's revisit this thing I couldn't face earlier this week: Deke creates the scales of our (fictional) reptile overlords in Adobe Illustrator