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Deke’s Techniques

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Deke blends the scales on what once a simple deranged robot cat and now may or may not be the pawn of our lizard overlords.

Deke finishes his Halloween cat eye project with some substantial help from Adobe Illustrator's dynamic effects and Appearance panel.

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