Your weekly quick-fix of Deke, with ideas you may inspire or inform your own projects.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke shows you how to festoon an ordinary path with a fabulous string of pearls made entirely from strokes applied in Illustrator. Thus plain outlines become bedazzled pathways.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke takes last week's Vector Island scene and applies a depth-of-field effect to the illustration inside Photoshop (with some help from Illustrator along the way).
In this week's free Deke's Techniques movie, you'll learn how to convert corner points into smooth points in Illustrator. Some of you are like, "Cool!" Some are all, "What?" And some of you are, "So what?"
In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke concludes his quest for the ultimate integrated Facebook profile and cover image by showing you how to "extend" your profile picture seamlessly out into the cover photo area.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques movie, Deke will show you how to make a perfect Facebook cover photo that integrates seamlessly with your personal profile picture.
It's Fix Your Facebook Fotos month here in dekeVille, and this week, Deke starts us off with a free Deke's Techniques movie in which he reviews all the current (that's 2015) specs for Facebook profile and cover images.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke shows you how to take that multichannel spot-colored custom logo from last week, and create PDF color separations from Photoshop to send you your friendly local commercial printer.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke turns the logo he created in his latest full-length course---Creating and Adapting a Logo---into a three-color job by assigning spot colors in Photoshop.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques movie, Deke takes a single frame from an underwater video shot with a GoPro Hero 4 and develops it into an awesome portrait of a French angelfish.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke reveals how he recreated the background paper for the forged Inverted Jenny stamp he's been working on in previous episodes.
In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke uses Photoshop to turn a scan of the first Airmail stamp (valued at roughly $160) into an almost-million-dollar "inverted jenny." Along the way, there's a great deal to learn about intricate masking of fine detail (which is good, because knowing more about forging stamps is a questionable bit of skills development).
In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke finally wraps up the MDNA-inspired photo that we've been working on for the past two weeks, by showing you how to create the vertically striped text at the bottom.