deke.com posts about CS5

Deke's Techniques 377: Two Ways to Create Center Guides in Photoshop

How to create center guides using the View > New Guide command.

Deke's Technique 221: Creating a Distinctive 2D Video Game Character in Illustrator

Deke shows how he drew his mesmerizing 2D game character, the Necrowalrus, in Adobe Illustrator. Walrus lovers and fans of Dan Paladin unite.

Deke's Techniques 201: Op Art Experiment 2a: An Undulating Pattern in Illustrator

Deke continues his quest to create the best digital Op Art possible. This week, he creates an undulating pattern that will make your eyes hurt and your Illustrator skills soar.

Deke's Techniques 199: Creating a Pattern of Size-Changing Circles in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to create a free-form pattern of size- and color-changing circles in Illustrator. Which I do by blending between groups and blended groups.

Deke's Techniques 198: Aligning Variations to Make a Perfect Composite in Photoshop

Deke takes last week's Warhol Variations and aligns them perfectly in Photoshop to create an enormous but meticulous composite poster.

Deke's Techniques 195: Creating a Series of Warhol-Style Variations in Photoshop

This week, you'll see how to create Andy Warhol-style, serigraph-like riffs and even transform them into images that Andy never got a chance to dream of.

Deke's Techniques 194: Creating an Andy Warhol-Style Silkscreen Effect in Photoshop

Make a Warhol-style silkscreen effect the right way. For mass reproduction. Just as Andy would've wanted.

Deke's Techniques 193: Drawing an ISOTYPE Couple in Love in Illustrator

This week, our universal bathroom symbols fall in love. Again, using nothing but strokes. And I write an inapproriate blog post. See, everyone wins.

Deke's Techniques 191: Building a Universal ISOTYPE Man with Strokes in Illustrator

Today, I create the universal ISOTYPE symbol for Man using Illustrator. Rather than draw the dude with shapes, I create him using dynamic stroke effects.

Deke's Techniques 190: Op Art Experiment 1a: Inflated Checkers in Photoshop

This week, Deke takes a Photoshop journey in to the eye-bending world of op art, creating a Bridget Riley-inspired twist and bulge of checkerboard contortion.

Deke's Techniques 185: Creating a Custom, Entirely Accurate New Year's 2013 Calendar in Illustrator

This week I show you how to create a one-page, full-year calendar for the year 2013. All inside Adobe Illustrator.

Deke's Techniques 183: Creating a Hobbit Movie Logo Effect in Adobe AI and Photoshop

In this week's installment, I show you how to create text that looks just like the logo for The Hobbit movie poster. Which is great, even if the movie is kinda lame.