What would you like Deke to do?

Create more irreverent podcasts.
43% (356 votes)
Write more educational books.
20% (163 votes)
Film more comprehensive videos.
37% (311 votes)
Total votes: 830
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hi deke

Submitted by fotomurthy on 22 August 2008 - 4:44pm.

hi _just tagged myself to ur webbie | but also gotta tell u this | i adore u for all ur creativity and eccentrics | lotsa love and god bless u ;)

♥

जीव अनुरज श्वसिहि मदेन ~ live love breathe with passion

CS3 Extended Photoshop

Submitted by james on 7 August 2008 - 11:12pm.

Hi Deke,
Big Time congrats on the stuff.
I got my first deke bible in 92, and have been shoving pixels around since. I am looking for more information on Photoshop CS3 extended. They have the video editing capability but very few tutorials in this section have I found. The whole subject seems to be a black hole. Russel the clown did some stuff and I got a bit outta that. But what I would like to see is the whole ball of "deke wax", as in how it works, why it works, what the rules are and how to break them! Over the years it has annoyed me to see people teaching something and preface it by the "I don't really understand why this works or how, but if you do this, watch what happens!"
What I like about your info packed sessions, like the wonderful Real World titles (Shout out to Bruce! Save me a good seat buddy!) Is that you tell the reason why, how, and how it may be bent, stories of the programs.
Another thing is I have never seen a lesion on is those numbers that appear in the eyedropper tool (count tool).
So theres a couple o holes I would like to see plugged. Video options and the count tool.
btw, I just completed After effects classes and am taking my stills to another vibrational state :0)....

james

" They thought it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group .
Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen,
where it was darkest and there was no path .
If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not
on the adventure

You know, I should admit

Submitted by deke on 8 August 2008 - 12:21am.

I'm not particularly up on Photoshop Extended at the moment.

But here's what I got for you:

--Fellow trainer Chad Perkins has some Photoshop CS3 Extended material at lynda.com. Chad's a quality guy and takes a similar approach to me. He's definitely interested in looking under the hood and he's not one for cutting corners. (That "I really don't understand how/why" bit really doesn't work for me. If you don't know, look it up, do the leg work, grow a brain, or don't pretend to train. Oh wow, that sounded really pissy. Time for an insincere :-) !)

--I actually just filmed a video for Adobe on those numbers-under-the-count tool, aka the count tool. The video won't come out until October. You click and it rings up a number for every click. It really is that simple. It's for scientific and analytical folks who are evaluating quantities of things inside images. Like vacuoles inside the cytoplasm of plant cells. Yes, thanks to that video (which took me a whole freakin' evening to figure out) I know what vacuoles are and how to spell the damn term. And I haven't purged it yet, which is the scary part.

--I'm thinking of recording an entire Photoshop Extended Essentials series next year. (I know, a ways out, but if you saw my calendar, you'd be surprised I might do it that soon.) Medical, 3D, video, everything there is to know.

Anyway, I agree. There's a dearth of info. But conventional wisdom has it that there's a dearth of interest. Please correct me if we're wrong.

Dearthiness

Submitted by james on 9 August 2008 - 8:26am.

Well where my interest lays, is in animating my stills.
And when I saw that PS-CS3 had video capabilities I thought OMG this is going to be amazing! They have retooled the animation area and it has some time line functionality that I am coming to grips with.
When I was at an all time high on what my mind was telling me I could create, a friend said "hey have you ever heard of After Effects"? And I hadn't. So jumping into the bottomless pit, of learning a new program, I started out with the tutorials on Lynda.com. But your buddy Chad, begins those, with what seems like chapter three and starts adding content from 3-D programs I have never heard of and then it gets worse. Going into CS2 and before was of some help with learning After Effects, but After taking more the 3600 videos (many I have seen several times, and those numbers don't show)I have to say the After Effects tutorials are the weakest link. Am I getting pissy here?
Check out the hair movement in this site.http://www.marc-aurel.com/2008_FW/
I think this is 38 shades of cool!
I would like to have someone as grounded in the principles as you are take After Effects apart and put it back together. But I know that there is only so much time, and you got kids and hopefully still a wife! So I can hope, but then I would rather know that you are finding a balance and happiness in your life, as you have brought so much to mine, through your fine educational material over the years.
btw Chad's no Deke, his brother Todd is an amazing teacher, Todd could carry water for Deke. Chad could carry water for Chris Orwig and as Chad's self depreciating humor, became to much for Chris to bare, Chris could have an interlude and talk about his childhood.
But there I go again getting pissy.

dekepod

Submitted by jhanley on 7 August 2008 - 8:52pm.

Very impressive...and fun. More, please. I'm hooked after just one.

Well there are three others

Submitted by deke on 7 August 2008 - 11:08pm.

Check them out at http://deke.com/dekepod.

We have four more in the can after this one. And four more slated for filming in September.

So I guess I'm addicted too. :-)

I'm So Excited!

Submitted by MACinTUTOR on 7 August 2008 - 11:22pm.

Yes!!, I'm sooooooo addicted to this podcast. Is that really so bad?

(hoping for anything on blend modes.... the pertinent mathematical equations would be good :-)- ),
Thomas

Thomas Benner
MACinTUTOR | MASTER ADOBE
http://www.masteradobe.com
macintutor@mac.com

Bridge in CS3 Extended

Submitted by david.grier on 7 August 2008 - 4:16pm.

David Grier: I have your Lynda CS3 One-on-One DVD and absolutely love it -- though I have to keep going back through already-seen episodes because I've forgotten stuff! In the section on the Bridge, however, nothing about quality of the "preview" pane. Sometimes (usually with a large PSD file) the preview pane comes up with a really awful blurry, out-of-focus image. The loupe reveals that actual sharpness is there, and when you double-click the file (thunbnail) to bring it up in Photoshop itself, the image resolves perfectly. What the heck is happening & is there some way I can fix it? -- because if I'm using the Bridge to compare different iterations of the same image (which to print, for example) I need to see them properly!

Don't know is this is the appropiate place for a question like this, but... nothing ventured nothing gained! Thanks for everything.

Purge the cache

Submitted by deke on 7 August 2008 - 5:10pm.

I like how this area has become the default Q&A area. We got to come up with a real home for that, but in the meantime, here will do.

The Bridge is supposed to resolve all images at the highest resolution it can inside the confines of the Preview panel. But sometimes you have to wait for it. Other times you have to clear the cache by choosing Tools > Cache > Purge Cache for Folder X.

That usually results in the Bridge regenerating thumbnails of better quality. If not, press Ctrl+K (Cmd-K), click Thumbnails on the left, and make sure Convert to High Quality When Previewed i turned on.

Bridge Previews: Awesome!! You Rock, Deke

Submitted by david.grier on 8 August 2008 - 11:46am.

Hey Deke, thanx for the prompt, quick and effective answer re purging the cache in Bridge. Your life-ring toss was right on the money. Your pod and this chat space are totally rad. Keep on rockin'. David Grier

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