Martini Hour 001, In Which Colleen Spills Her Drink

Beverage: classic martinis. Question of the Week: from davep, “Why Is It So Huge?” Secret Handshake: straightening a crooked image in Photoshop, Toast: online community at deke.com. At this naive point, we apparently also believed in very large logos as well. Because tall logos would carry us to the stars, baby!

Martini Hour 002, In Which Deke Admits He’s Fighting a Losing Battle

Beverage: Pimm’s & ginger. InDesign’s Transparency Blend Space Warning. He Said/She Said: panels vs. palettes.

Martini Hour 003, In Which Colleen Exposes the Secret Brotherhood

Beverage: Coffee. Secret Handshake: Option-Delete. He Said/She Said: Quick apply vs. shortcuts for InDesign styles.

Martini Hour 004, In Which Deke Admits He Sounds Like an Old Fart

Beverage: Whatever. Annoying Color Management Situation. He Said/She Said: The term stylesheets makes Deke sound old.

Martini Hour 005, In Which Colleen Proves She Occasionally Paid Attention in College

Beverage: Ramos Fizzes. Secret Handshake: Blend Modes. Why Blend RGB channels with Screen Instead of Add?

Martini Hour 006, In Which Deke Refuses to Be a Corporate Shill

Beverage: Classic Bombay Sapphire Martini. He Said She Said: Adobe Nomenclature. Secret Handshake: White Balance.

Martini Hour 007, In Which Colleen Reveals the dekeLounge’s Secret Location

Beverage: Gimlet. Our Very First Guest, Adobe’s Senior Creative Director Russell Brown Joins in the Lounge.

Martini Hour 008, In Which Deke Notes That It Doesn’t Feel Like an Hour

Beverage: Unknown. Viewer mail. InDesign! Secret Handshake: The Links Palette, I Mean Panel.

Martini Hour 009, In Which Colleen Breaks the Gin Protocol for Adobe’s John Nack

Beverage: Sidecar. John Nack Tells Us What He Would Like to See in Future Episodes Photoshop.

Martini Hour 010, In Which Deke Apocalyptically Imagines Layers Inside of Channels

Beverage: Classic Martinis. ID Document History You Didn’t Know Was There and a wish for Layers within Channels.

Martini Hour 011: In Which Colleen Lures Back John and Russell with Olives

Beverage: More Gimlets as We Discuss Bridge with John and Russell.

Martini Hour 012: In Which Deke (with help from John and Russell) Whips Up Layers of Photoshop Goodness

Beverage: More Gimlets All Around As We Discuss Layers with Adobe Luminaries.

Martini Hour 013: In Which Colleen Revels in Classic Simplicity

Photoshop Secret Handshake: Unsharp Mask, How to Scan and Print Money.

Martini Hour 014: In Which Deke and Mordy Teach Colleen to Draw a Yellow Hat

Beverage: Fine Scotch as Mordy and Deke Do their Best.

Martini Hour 15: In Which Colleen Attempts to Represent Deke’s Adoring Masses All By Herself

Question of the Week: Sharpening preview in Photoshop, InDesign Wish List: Inability to track edits in InDesign.

Martini Hour 016: In Which Deke Reveals His Fear of the Digital Trash Can

Beverage: Martinis. The Power and Vagaries of Clipping. He Said/She Said: Care and Feeding of the Trash Can.

Martini Hour 017: In Which Colleen Discovers Deke’s Secret Martini Past (with Bert Monroy)

Beverage: Black Russians. Hyperrealist Magician and Masterpiece Maker Bert Monroy.

Martini Hour 018: In Which Deke Takes on Two Women at Once

Beverage: Bloody Marys. Special Guest: Karen Gauthier of Gridiron Software Swears Up a Storm.

Martini Hour 019: In Which Colleen Unleashes the We in Schewe

Beverages: Vodka Martinis Photoshop Guru and Kickass Photographer Jeff Schwewe and We Let Karen Back in Too.

Martini Hour 020, In Which Deke Aspires to Be Asleep In the Gutter

Beverage: Gin and Tonics. A Discussion of Bert Monroy’s Masterwork-in-Progress, “Times Square at Night,” with Bert and Karen Gauthier.

Martini Hour 021, In Which Colleen Considers Leaving the Lounge

Beverage: A Nice Refreshing Martini. Special Guest: Author, Photoshop Diva, and Noted Photography Educator Katrin Eismann.

Martini Hour 022, In Which Deke Gives the Lawyers A Coronary

Beverage: Classic Bombay Sapphire Martini. Deke vs. Copyright Law. Andy Asks About Defeating the Halftone Pattern.

Martini Hour 023, In Which Colleen Dreams of Martini-Mixing Website-Designing Software

Beverage: Pale Ale. Dreamweaver Guru James Williamson Walks Us through Creating Our First Dreamweaver Project.

Martini Hour 024, In Which Deke Gets His Can of Copyright Worms Spilled Again

Beverage: Bombay Martinis with Digital Asset Management Expert, Photographer, and Lover of Quality Cocktails, Peter Krogh.

Martini Hour 025, In Which Colleen Experiences the Deke in High Resolution

Beverage: Kaluha and Coffee. Secret Handshake: We Devote an Entire Episode to Image Resolution.

Martini Hour 026, In Which Deke Proves He Really Does Have an Hour’s Worth

Beverage: Unknown. Preparing An Image For The Side Of The DekeLounge Minivan.

Martini Hour 027, In Which Colleen Struggles Gracefully with Her Raging Sibling Rivalry

Beverage: White Russians. Special Guest: David Futato. Preparing an InDesign Template for “Non-Designers.”

Martini Hour 028, In Which Deke Laughs Maniacally for No Apparent Reason

Beverage: Microbrews with. Quality control, the late, lamented Image Ready, and configurator Flash panels with Adobe Quality Engineer Jeff Tranberry.

Martini Hour 029, In Which Colleen Implores You to Edit Yourself (and Your Photos)

Beverages: Gin and Tonics. Deke’s New Photoshop Top 4 Video (including #37 Save for Web). Image Editing vs. Photo Editing.

Martini Hour 030, In Which Deke Wishes Colleen Would Get with the Program

Beverage: More Gin and Tonics. Opacity, Fill (Opacity), vs Flow? He Said/She Said: Write with Words or Pictures First?

Martini Hour 031, In Which Deke and Mordy Go on a Geek Excursion

Beverages: Grey Goose and Cranberry; A long intimate talk with Illustrator expert Mordy Golding about the Opacity palette in Illustrator.

Martini Hour 032, In Which Deke Admits He Might Have Once Seen an Issue of Maxim Magazine

Beverages: White Port and Tonic. Michael Ninness, Adobe Sr. Product Manager for InDesign Discusses the Future of Print.

Martini Hour 033, In Which Colleen Buys Her Laptop a Drink, Because It’s Playing the Role of Fotolia’s Patrick Lor

Beverage: Gin and Sugar-Free Tonic. Fotolia’s Patrick Lor Stops by the Lounge to Discuss Microstock.

Martini Hour 034, In Which Deke Unironically Uses the Phrase Vis-a-vis, in a Conversation with Garrick Chow

Beverage: Stealth Beers with Garrick Chow of the Jellybricks, lynda.com, and Harrisburg, PA.

Martini Hour 035, In Which Colleen Urges Deke to Stick with Complicated

Beverage: Classic Bombay Sapphire Martinis and Classic Geek Out Conversation about How to Make Great Screenshots, dekeStyle.

Martini Hour 036, In Which Deke Christens This Week’s Caller Daffodil

Beverage: Classic Bombay Sapphire Martinis, as Is Only Fitting Given the Mind-Numbing Topic of This Week’s Show.

Martini Hour 037, In Which Colleen Welcomes One and All to the Eyecandy Sound Lounge

Beverage: Martinis mostly. Live Conversations from the Eyecandy Lounge in Las Vegas with Adobe’s Julianne Kost and Russell Brown.

Martini Hour 038, In Which Deke Temporarily Abdicates Interviewing Duties to RC Concepcion

Beverages: Appletinis with Rafael “RC” Concepcion and Terry White Live from the Eyecandy Lounge in Las Vegas.

Martini Hour 039, In Which Colleen is Fooled by Jack Davis’s Hair

Beverages: Live Vegas Martinis with Guests Ben Wilmore and Jack Davis, who express their creativity in digital imagery and surprising hairdos.

Martini Hour 040, In Which Deke and Scott Kelby Appear Together in Front of Witnesses

Beverage: Much Needed Coffee. The Other Photoshop Legend Scott Kelby Joins Us in Vegas. History Takes Note.

Martini Hour 041, in Which Colleen Admits She Has No Tattoo

Beverage: Something from the Eyecandy Bartender. Photoshop Guys Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski Live from Photoshop World at the Eyecandy Lounge.

Martini Hour 042, In Which Jay Maisel Refuses to Mind Meld with Deke

Beverage: Eyecandy Cocktails. Legends Jay Maisel and Katrin Eismann, Recorded Live from the Mandalay Bay at Photoshop World.

Martini Hour 043, In Which Colleen Experiences Photoshop Experts in 3D

Beverage: Bourbon! Corey Barker and Bert Monroy join us to discuss 3D, yes 3D, in audio only format. Because we’re fearless…and we drink.

Martini Hour 044, In Which Deke Contemplates the Solitary Life of the Artist

Beverage: Campari and Soda. Creativity, inspiration, and fearlessness photographer-educators JP Caponigro and Chris Orwig.

Martini Hour 045, In Which Colleen and Deke find out that the Enjoy Their Edgy Traditions

Beverage: Delicious Olde Jenever and holiday cheer with Bob Van Duuren and Sinterklass himself.

Martini Hour 046, In Which Colleen Discovers Her Dutch Counterpart

Beverage: Olde Jenever and Herring. Bob Van Duuren and Wouter Vermeulen of Van Duuren Media, Deke’s Dutch publishers.

Martini Hour 047, In Which Deke Displays His Brilliant Interviewing Skills

Beverage: More Delicious Jenever from Holland with our guests, Adobe Evangelists Jason Levine and Serge Jespers.

Martini Hour 048, In Which Colleen Joins the Ranks of Jaded Tech Book Authors with Naïve Enthusiasm

Beverage: Classic Martinis. Our New Book and Extracting Good Photoshop from Photoshop Elements.

Martini Hour 049, In Which Deke Is Invited to Rub a Guest’s Feet

Beverage: Gin and Tonics. Mikkel Aaland of Lightroom Adventure Fame Talks Lightroom and Other Raw Ideas.

Martini Hour 050, In Which Colleen Discovers Real Men Like to Share

Beverages: Martinis, natch.  Ben Long and Mikkel Aaland Talk About the Many Ways Your Photographs Can Actually Live Outside Your Computer.

Martini Hour 051, in Which Deke Discovers Our Guest Can’t Even Find Matching Socks

Beverages: Martinis, the International Drink. Awesome Travel Tips from Author, Photographer, and Road Warrior Ben Long.

Martini Hour 052, In Which Colleen Compliments Our Guest’s Definition of a Martini

Beverage: Bombay Saphire Martinis (Yay, Tom!) With Our Charming Guest, Tom Hogarty, Product Manager of Adobe Lightroom.

Martini Hour 053, In Which Photoshop Turns Twenty and Martini Hour Turns One

Beverage: Celebratory Champagne with Adobe’s John Nack and Bryan O’Neil Hughes in Honor of Photoshop’s 2th Anniversary.

Martini Hour 054, In Which Deke Challenges My Brain’s Ability to Retain “Personal” Metadata

Beverages: Classic Bombay Martinis with Adobe’s Tom Hogarty and an In-Depth Look at Lightroom 3 Beta.

Martini Hour 055, In Which Deke Teases Because He Loves…Photoshop

Beverage: More Celebratory Champagne with Adobe PMs Bryan O’Neil Hughes and John Nack Who Discuss the Just Do It Features They Are Adding to Photoshop at Your Request.

Martini Hour 056, In Which Colleen Is Trapped in a Mellow Yellow and Purple Groove

Beverages: Martini and lots of olives. Forty Minutes on Trapping. And It’s Fun. And Informative.

Martini Hour 057, In Which Deke Gives You Part of His Brain

Beverage: Gin and Tonics. Colleen and Deke Discuss dekeKeys, Deke’s Set of Fabulous Photohsop Keyboard Shortcuts Which He Shares With You.

Martini Hour 058, In Which Colleen Levels Out

Beverage: Cold Gin and Tonics and Lukewarm Coffee. How Does the Levels Command Actually Work…and Why Does It Work That Way? Tell Me, Deke.

Martini Hour 059, In Which We Attempt 2 Photoshop Tips in One Martini Hour

Beverage: Probably martinis. First Ever Tip-Off Roundtable with Katrin Eismann to Remember. Twenty (plus) Photoshop Tips in One Episode.

Martini Hour 060, In Which Colleen’s Head Comes Precariously Close to Exploding

Beverage: Martinis All the Time, Everyday. Confusing but Powerful Blending Options of the Layer Style Dialog Box.

Martini Hour 061, In Which Cap’n Deke Helps Us Navigate the High Photoshop Seas

Beverages: Gin and Tonics. The Myriad and Amazing Ways You Can Navigate Through Your Images in Photoshop.

Martini Hour 062, In Which Colleen Graciously Lets Deke Pick Up Where We Left Off

Beverages: G and Ts. Delving into the Ability to Perform Levels Adjustment on a Color Channel-by-Channel Basis.

Martini Hour 063, In Which We Finally Put the See and the Ess and the Five Together, Legally

Beverages: Gimlets for Us, Cranberry for Marathon Man. Photoshop CS5 with Good Friends, Adobe’s Nack and Hughes.

Martini Hour 064, In Which Colleen Wants to Know How Badly She Wants an iPad

Beverage: A Wee Dram O’ Whiskey. Macworld Magazine’s Chris Breen and Ben Long Join Us to Deconstruct the iPad.

Martini Hour 065, In Which We Talk More Photoshop CS5 With Bryan “Zátopek” Hughes and Some Guy Named Nack

Beverage: Gimlets. Some of the More “Domestic” But Useful Improvements to Photoshop CS5.

Martini Hour 066, In Which Two Davids and an Anne-Marie Remind Us There Is a New Version of InDesign

Beverage: Martinis.  InDesign Experts David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion, and David Futato.

Martini Hour 067, In Which Chris and Ben Point Out the Obvious and Obscure in iTunes

Beverages: Whatever’s on ‘lounge Special as Macworld Magazine’s Chris Breen and Ben Long Help Us Understand the Idiosyncracies of iTunes.

Martini Hour 068, In Which Colleen’s Past and Present Collide and Talk Web Graphics

Beverage: Cap’n Morgan’s and Coke. Dave Naves of Daveworks.net comes by to Quiz Deke about Web Graphics.

Martini Hour 069, In Which Deke Recognizes the iPhone 4 and Before

Beverage: Vodka & Cranberry. Macworld’s Chris Breen and Ben Long Give Us Their Ninja-iPhone Moves.

Martini Hour 070, In Which Colleen Gets Schooled in Illustrator CS5 by the Benevolent Masters

Drinks: Pimms and Ginger. Illustrator Guru Mordy Golding, Who Stops by to Discuss Illustrator CS5.

Martini Hour 071, In Which We Celebrate Summer with Illustrator-based Sno-cones and More More Mordy

Beverage: Pimm’s Cup and Tutti-Frutti Sno-cones. Mordy Golding Discusses Dynamic Effects in Adobe Illustrator.

Martini Hour 072, In Which Deke Gets to Geek Out with a Kindred Spirit

Beverage: Jenever revisited. Stu Maschwitz, creator of Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet PhotoLooks, a photo-filter based image editing application.

Martini Hour 073, In Which Colleen Experiences the Many Layer Effects of Deke

Beverages: More yummy Pimm’s and Ginger as Colleen and Deke Investigate the Many Mysterious Things One Can Do with Layer Effects.

Martini Hour 074, In Which Deke Gets Rid of the Shnivels

Beverages: Martini Madness as Colleen and Deke Discuss Printing from Photoshop, and No, They’re Not Intoxicated, You Can Print from Photoshop.

Martini Hour 075, In Which the Storm and the Sun Collide Delightfully

Beverage: Cabo Wabo Tequila. Author and Doodler Sunni Brown Discussrs Her New Book, Gamestorming and How Drawing Can Rewire Your Brain.

Martini Hour 076, in Which Luminance Contrast Controls the Luminance Contrast

Beverage: Hendricks and Tonic. Some of the More Obscure Camera Raw Features that We Usually Don’t Get To.

Martini Hour 077, In Which Deke Is Surrounded by Charming, If Foul-Mouthed, Women Who Defend Your Right to Doodle

Beverage: Purloined Tequila. Sunni Brown’s Plans for Waging a Doodle Revolution.

Martini Hour 078, In Which We Consider Dropping the “I” In Honor Of Our Guest

Beverage: White Wine. Martin “Martini” Evening Stops By to Discuss the Photography-Relevant Features in Photoshop CS5.

Martini Hour 079, In Which We Realize Our Unbridled Optimism Can Only Be Captured in Panorama

Beverage: Martinis. Everything New for Photographers, Except We Only Get to Creating Panoramas with Photomerge.

Martin We Deke and Colleen Each Claim Kindred Connection

Beverage: Gin and Tonics. Writing (and Editing) for Creatives with Terri Stone, Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com.

Martini Hour 081, In Which We Experience Lounge Lights in High Dynamic Range

Beverage: Hendrick’s and Diet Tonic. Deke and Colleen Finally Get Themselves Back to Discussing the New HDR Pro in Photoshop CS5.

Martini Hour 082, In Which We Get Hungry and Abandon Computer Graphics (Almost) Altogether

Beverage: Cosmopolitans. Our Resident Chef Rebecca Peizer Talks about How Cooking and Computer Graphics Are Alike.

Martini Hour 083, In Which We Contemplate Our Murky if Interesting Future

Beverage: Soothing Gin and Tonics as We Contemplate the Future of Books with Safari’s Curator and Our Good Friend Mark Brokering.

Martini Hour 084, In Which We Kick Back While Buddy Does All the Work

Beverages: A Delicious Mix of Various Cocktails Imbibed As We Celebrate Our First Mix of Delicious Episodes from Our Delicious Past.

Martini Hour 085, In Which We Celebrate Adobe Illustrator with a Mordy-Palooza

Beverages: Vodka and Cranberry, Fine Scotch and Sno-Cones. A Melange of Discussions with Mordy Golding about Adobe Illustrator.

Martini Hour 086, In Which We Vectorize Our Rasters

Beverage: Hendricks Madras with Cucumber Garnish. Deke and Colleen Consider the Fun and Useful Live Trace Function in Illustrator.

Martini Hour 087, In Which You Wonder Where the Heck We’ve Been

Beverage: Pirate’s Grog. Deke Explains How He Created a Pirate Flag in Illustrator. Avast ye, Mateys!

Martini Hour 088, In Which We Magically Change Colors

Beverages: Madras with Cucumber Garnish. Deke and Colleen Discuss the Magical Transformative Power of Live Color in Adobe Illustrator.

Martini Hour 089, in Which Deke Gets to Legitimately Use the Word Palette Again

Beverage: Black, Black Coffee as Deke and Colleen Consider the Powers of Using Illustrator’s Live Trace with Color Options.

Martini Hour 090, In Which We Vent Freely Against Our Beloved Creative Suite

Beverage: Clearly We Are Enjoying Coffee as We Discuss our Gripes and Pet Peeves Because Talking About We Love Would Take Too Long.

Martini Hour 091, In Which We Self-Select for Awesomeness

Beverage: Woodford Reserve. All the selection tools in Photoshop, which ones don’t work, which one’s do, and which one you want for your selection needs.

Martini Hour 092, In Which We Refine the Edges from Last Week’s Show

Beverage: Whatever Helps You Untether from Technology So You Can Discuss Technology. Then Discuss Refine Edge in Photoshop.

Martini Hour 093, In Which We Release You From Your Bad Photoshop Habits

Beverage: Martinis (As Far As You Know) as Colleen and Deke Discuss the Things You No Longer Need to Do in Photoshop.

Martini Hour 094, In Which We Hypocritically Mock Some of Adobe’s Odd Feature Names

Beverage: Manhattans (yum!) as We Ponder Some of the Odd, Confusing, or Downright Silly Names of Adobe Features.

Martini Hour 095, In Which Chris Brings the List (and Deke Drools over the Items on It)

Beverage: Cragganmore. Chris Breen Brings Us His List of Favorite Holiday Techophile Gift Ideas.

Martini Hour 096, In Which We Refuse to Jump the Shark

Beverage: Jenever in Martini Glasses. We Consider Which CS5 Features Lived Up to the Hype, Which Didn’t, and Which We Don’t Want to Remember Life Like without.

Martini Hour 097, In Which In Which We Hype That Thing That Just Happened Two Days Ago

Beverage: Leftover Scotch. We Discuss Deke’s New Podcast and How He Goes About Creating Ten Minute Magic.

Martini Hour 098, In Which Colleen Eats Great Photoshop Brain

Beverage: Let’s Assume Katrin Is Drinking White Wine as She Regales Us with the Key Moments for Teaching Photoshop.

Martini Hour 099, In Which Colleen Hosts the Illustrator Summit Countdown Smackdown Lovefest

Beverage: Scotch or Vodka? Deke and Mordy Golding Compare Their Top 10 Favorite Features In Adobe Illustrator.

Martini Hour 100, in Which We Fulfill Our Three Digit Destiny with Nack and Hughes

Beverage: Champagne. Our 100th (and Penultimate) Episode with Our Faithful Friends (and Drinking Buddies) John Nack and Bryan O’Neil Hughes.

Martini Hour 101, In Which Deke and Colleen Have One More for the Road

Beverage: One Last Classic Martini as Deke and Colleen Reflect on What They’ve Learned in 101 Episodes of Martini Hour. Cheers, ‘Loungers!