Deke’s Techniques

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

The New Join Tool in Illustrator CC 2015

In this week's free Deke's Techniques, Deke shares an amazingly useful---possibly magic, I'm not sure, but definitely mind-reading---tool that's new in Illustrator CC 2015.

Wrapping a Gradient around a Circle in Illustrator

In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke shows you how to create a color wheel in Illustrator, which in real non-Deke life does not actually have the angle gradient like the one that you have in Photoshop.

Smooth Color Adjustments in Lab Mode

In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke dispels the myth that using the Lab mode to adjust color is inherently destructive.

Blending Multiple Motion Photos in Photoshop

Mind the gap, my dekeOtonians. In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke shows you how to successfully blend four motion-filled photos of the London Underground into one image that captures the speed and movement (and happiness) of being in a tube station as trains pass by.

Achieving Realistic Pointillism in Photoshop

This week's free Deke's Techniques episode should actually be called "Achieving a Pointillism Effect in Photoshop that Doesn't Totally Blow."

Drawing a “Which Way is Up?” Pattern in Illustrator

This week's free Deke's Techniques episode is aptly named "Which Way Is Up? Very similar to "What Day Is It, Colleen?"

Drawing an Orthogonal Box Tower in Illustrator

In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke draws this orthogonal "box tower" in Illustrator, starting with nothing but the Line tool.

Extracting an Unmodified Photo from a Smart Object in Photoshop

In this week's free Deke's Techniques, Deke shows you how to extract your original unmodified JPEG photograph from a smart object that resides inside your significantly edited PSD image.

Removing Unwanted Perspective from a Photo

In this week's free episode of Deke's Techniques, Deke employs a two-phased attack on a photograph with skewed perspective, using both the Lens Corrections controls in Camera Raw and the Perspective Warp features in Photoshop CC.

Applying Multiple Stroke Effects in Photoshop CC 2015

This week's free Deke's Techniques movie bring exciting news, well exciting nerd news. (You understand all these things are relative, right?) In Photoshop CC 2015, you can finally assign multiple strokes to a single layer inside of Photoshop.

Developing a Dark and Stormy Photo in Photoshop

In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke works on an exterior shot of the York Minster cathedral he used for last week's mysterious interior panorama, and uses Camera Raw to develop an exterior shot that's equally hyper-realistically dramatic.

Assembling an Interior Vertical Panorama

In this week's free Deke's Techniques movie, Deke takes some typical interior shots of the venerable York Minster cathedral and turns them into a decidedly untraditional and unexpected vertical panorama.