Some of you have asked, so I thought I’d let you know: It looks as though “Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals,” my comprehensive 194-movie, 20-hour video series for lynda.com, will go live the week of May 3. That is to say, just one week from Monday. As I’ve mentioned before, it includes roughly 99% new content and a slew of new features. But mostly, it’s all about bringing you up to speed with how to use Photoshop, from cradle to grave—as I trust this macabre pencil sketch (which I use to explore the Image Size command) demonstrates in no uncertain terms. Hint: the sheep did it!
Meanwhile, I’m hard at work on “Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals.”
The Illustrator videos should be done any day now, which means that series will be available sometime in May as well. Like the Photoshop series, it’s comprehensive, exhaustive, chuck-full-o new features, and nearly entirely new. Here’s a sample file from the pen tool chapter, which I’ll complete today. I drew inspiration from a piece of ancient Aztec art. (My people hail from New Mexico, so you know, same diff.)
Both illustrations drawn by me. See my previous CS5 One-on-One progress report for more info.
And, yes(!), a trio of new CS5 One-on-One books are also on their way. I’m more than halfway done with the Photoshop title, which again contains an enormous amount of new content. Totally reorganized to boot.
Hey, I’m just one guy. But I’m enjoying and grateful for the work. Not to mention, your attention. I’ll keep you posted when I have more to share.
Much Faster
Sir ..... your recording speed…is much faster than my watching and training Speed!!!
I Have a lot commulated hours to watch!!!
Thank you for keeping attitude..
Black Seals ... White Reveals…!
I asked for that :)
infact I was dying for that
keep up rock on lynda deke
n I’m waiting for more… n yeah we never say it’s enough
Perfect Timing Deke
The pre-order receipt for the CS5 upgrade from Adobe says the estimated date of availability is April 29. I can hardly wait!
I have seen the new features videos by CO and JK but I am ready to hear the whole enchilada straight from the Master. Deke on….!!
That is the download upgrade
That is the download upgrade version I should add. Not the physical disc.
eye candy
Really like ya killer scarecrow sketch nice to see some illustration,
assuming you scanned the pencil sketch in.. Or did you do it all in photoshop?
Just looking at the artwork i get the feeling you enjoyed working on the tutorials in CS5, good to see some eye candy as alot time the demo artwork on alot tutorials is naff.. not the case with alot CS5 vids ive seen so far.
Deke could you and Colleen get to the bottom of
“Who designed the artwork for the backdrop of the CS5 launch / Cover artwork for CS5 master collection.”?
Really liked the dragon and pirateship on a map on the photoshop extended page..did the same guy design that too?
Assuming you seen the dragon etc?
Questions questions.. but it would be nice to know me thinks.
Cheers;)
big fan of all ya lynda.com tuts
NO WAY!!!! xD
Deke my dear teacher you have been sent from heaven to teach us!!
I don’t know how you do it, and I hope you know how much the community appreciates it.
I finished the CS4 ONE-ON-ONE a couple of months ago, and now I am watching the Illustrator one-on-one movies. I’m still at the advanced section.
Thanks again dude.
YOU ROCK
hullo bro….
nice post, I like it.
This is some good news!
FINALLY!
There’s no contact information on deke.com. I’ve been wondering when your 1-on-1 was going to be released for CS5.
I just had work get me a 1 year subscription for Lynda.com.
I can’t wait for Monday! I love your training style, Deke. Gonna learn me everything I can about PSX:CS5 and AI:CS5. Can’t wait!
I hope that, after the 1-on-1 series, you provide subsequent more advanced topics about the programs. You’re my favorite trainer for this software, Deke.
Question Deke.
First can’t wait till your video comes out, looking forward to it;)
I downloaded the trial version of CS5 Extended and will buy it but all of the sudden I get this when I press shift & delete for the content aware
http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x293/SpartanWarriors/?action=view¤t=contentaware.jpg
and I went to preferences and upped the RAM because my laptop has 4gb RAM. Next if you look at top left in bridge under folders I get these white Icons and my pictures isn’t in there and I have to go to favorites to get to them but I used to get this in CS4 also
http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x293/SpartanWarriors/?action=view¤t=Folders.jpg
is there a fix for this?
thank you
Chris;)
Batch Rename and Image processor in Bridge CS4
Hi,
I am curious why my pictures wont work on my website when i use bridge batch rename? As well how come i cant i cant use image processor in bridge? I am doing this on my mac.
Thanks
Hmm, that’s interesting
You got the Fill dialog box, right? And then the error? How long did it take for the message to appear?
Your content-aware fill example is intriguing, b/c you are asking a lot of the program. It could reference the sky, which would be easy, but it could just as easily go after that tree with the sun behind it, which might be computationally intensive.
Try this: dup the image, and then crop it to get rid of some of the tree below. Then content-aware fill again. If it works, drag the cropped image back into the original.
Basically, CAF is looking at everything outside the selection, and that could end up being the thing the frustrates people in the long run. Right now everyone’s viewing it as magic. I think that’ll wear off pretty quickly. (It’s awesome, don’t get me wrong . . .)
As for the Bridge problem, I really dunno. Looks like a Windows thing to me. I’ve been using Photoshop CS5 on Windows 7 nearly daily for months now, and Windows has an irritating habit of losing icons, mismapping directories, and otherwise requiring a restart to kick its ass.
Thanks for getting back Deke;)
Yes I used the Lasso tool then pressed shift & Backspace and then the Contant aware came up, pressed ok then right away I got the message, funny thing is when I select smaller areas it works, on some forums they say it might be because I am running 32 bit,
Windows 7 32 bit Intel (R) core(TM)2 DUO CPU T6400 @ 2.00 GHz with 4gb RAM.
Maybe CS5 needs 64 bit, Thanks;)