Imagine my delight when I got these puppies in the mail. The ostentatious one on the right is a Hermes Creative Award, the streamlined one on the left (coldly rejecting Hermes) is a Telly. They’re both for my video series Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images, which has picked up a total of four industry awards for my publisher, lynda.com. Look, even Bugs is excited.
Best of all, they’re really heavy so I can bludgeon intruders with them.
Anyway, sorry to brag, but I’m happy. That’s all.
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Have you ever used an app like Lensa? Feed it a bunch of selfies and it generates a handful of AI portraits. Which are flattering, to be sure, but they're hardly impeccable. In fact, they can be riddled with flaws. All of which you can fix using the copious retouching tools in Photoshop.
Here is where you can download the asset for Deke's Impressions of Impressionism video from Patreon, even if you're not (yet) a patron.
Renown expert and deep diver Deke McClelland returns to the fray with dekeNow: a look at the current Photoshop and Illustrator state of the art of the art
Deke completes the One-on-One series for both Photoshop and Illustrator at LinkedIn Learning.
I’d like to thank the academy…
Congrats Deke!
Mordy Golding
http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com
Ditto
Yeah congrats Deke, they’re thoroughly deserved!
Sharpening Images is a fantastic series, very detailed and accurate!
Like I said before though, the crowning jewel is your Channels and Masks series for Photoshop CS3 (both parts), the info on display there literally blew me away. Hopefully you got rewarded for that one too!
Keep up the good work!
Congrats! You deserve them :)
Congrats! You deserve them :)
Don’t be sorry…
...its your blog, its your prize!!
And like the others said, you worked hard for it and you deserve it.
Congrats!!
Jan
Congratulations to You and Team Deke
Seems fitting that you received this during the Olympics :-)
Congratulations to you and Your Team.
Thomas
Thomas Benner
Austin, Texas
http://www.masteradobe.com
Ever heard?
“Outside Myself” by k.d. lang?
Tonight was smoking a cigar in my backyard (for real) and this tune popped up.
So much imaging goodness. From “raw” to “mask.”
And that classic photographer’s lament: “A fool to worship just light.”
Played it about 17 times as I killed my lungs.
Maudlin mood. Then read these. Lucky to have the support.
Means more than empty heavy pieces of very shiny composite.
Imagine that. Human at-a-boys over trophies.
Thx for the love.
PS: You’re going to like next week’s dekePod. No it’s not a set up. Ever-so-vaguely related, that’s all. When you watch it, you’ll be like, “How’s that related?” But it is.
World Class Act
Deke,
You’re world class act in the Photoshop and Training worlds.
On a slightly different note, what happened to the blog post that was here: http://www.deke.com/content/your-next-gen-conference
I was looking forward to your comments and thoughts.
Roger
Head Camp Counselor
Camp Photoshop
http://www.campphotoshop.com
How to contact Deke?
I know this is off topic, but I am new here and am looking for Deke’s email address. I don’t see it anywhere on the site. Anyone know how to cantact him?
More then 3 GB->->->Urban Myth
Hi Deke can you call that guy over at Adobe and have him unlock the three gig limit.
Tell him I will mow his lawn and cut some shapes into his hedge stuff.
I just got me a MacPro with many (mooey) gigs-0-ram and Photoshop doesn’t care. I tried holding down keys and parting my hair on the other side. Then it dawned on me to just ask you.
My hair looks really good parted on this side by the way.
dispatch@deke.com
Is the best, because I have it set up to evade my spam filters.
That said, I’m not super reliable in the returning email dept. Just too much on my plate and I’m fairly inundated by day-to-day BS. So just know if I don’t respond, it’s nothing personal, just me being insanely busy.
A thin ice
A thin ice
Covers my soul
My body’s frozen and my heart is cold
And still
So much about me is raw
I search for a place to unthaw
Something in me
Broods love into fear
It veils my vision leaves my thoughts
unclear
My eyes
From blue turn to grey
Hoping to mask what they say
I’ve been outside myself for so long
Every feeling I had is close to gone
I’ve been outside myself for so long
I have been
In a storm of the sun
Basking, senseless to what I’ve become
A fool to worship just light
When after all, it follows night
I’ve been outside myself for so long
Every feeling I had is close to gone
I’ve been outside myself for so long
I’ve been outside myself for so long
Every feeling I had is close to gone
I’ve been outside myself for so long
Self-imposed censorship
In retrospect, it seemed bad form to follow a posting on Photoshop World with one on what we could do to change the industry.
Just one of those, hmm, “I wonder what?” posts.
Figured we’d hold it until after the Vegas event. Which I urge everyone to attend—if only to say hi.
OK, glad to hear it was
OK, glad to hear it was self-imposed. You do like to shake things up. I feared you’d found a horse head in your bed.
Roger
Head Camp Counselor
Camp Photoshop
http://www.campphotoshop.com
Congratulations From Uruguay
Hey congratulations on your awards
I´m one of the people from the “world” who´s putting some green in your map, as you mentioned in the dekeStuff page,
Anytime you´d like to reach the spanish audience with your fine training, let me know.
It would be my honour to work with you
Alvaro Calandra
Recommendation Needed on Photoshop Elements Book/Training
I need a recommendation for a training book for the new Mac Photoshop Elements. I’ve got Deke’s older Elements 1-on-1 book but need a book on the current version (too many changes to the app) to use working with students who are retirees just getting into the whole digital photo Photoshop Elements stuff… hobbyists and not too computer savvy.
I am so jazzed about the new Illustrator 1-on-1 book coming out, I feel a bit guilty bugging overworked Deke about an update to his older Elements book and am asking for your recommendation instead. Of course, an update to his older book or training videos on the way would be just great (if such critters exist).
Thanks much,
Thomas
Thomas Benner
http://www.masteradobe.com