I Begin Work on the First of My Four Courses on the Wealth of 3D Features in Photoshop CS5 Extended

I Completed the Last of my CS5 Video Courses, "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery"

Comprehensive Video Course "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced" Goes Live

Bert Monroy's Soon-to-Be-Released Times Square

Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery Is Finally Under Way

Chuck Joiner Once Again Captures Me on MacVoices

Scaling and Editing Traced Artwork

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. In this final installment, Deke scales, recolors, and edits a group of paths to create a finished piece of art.

Expanding and Separating Artwork

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Illustrator to expand, separate, and prepare a piece of artwork for output to any medium.

Live Trace and Resolution

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke prepares the base artwork for tracing in Photoshop and auto-traces it in Illustrator.

All Pirate Flag Files and Art

Adding Contrast and Color

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to distill the base art into three colors: rich black, blood red, and page white.

Editing Scanned Line Art

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to adjust, distort, and otherwise refine an ink drawing into a work of perfection.