Getting Behind It: Deke and the Photoshop Curves Command

Deke's Techniques 180: Creating a Jaunty Star of David in Illustrator

This week, Deke gets in the Hanukkah spirit and creates this festive, jaunty Star of David in Adobe Illustrator. All from a single circle. How awesome is that?

My 11-Hour "Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Advanced" Video Course Is Now Live at lynda.com

Deke's Techniques 136: Building a Sci-Fi Temple from Scratch in Photoshop CS6 Extended 3D

Today, I pay appropriate 3D homage to my alien overlords by building them a temple out of plain old earthly linear gradients and a little thing called a depth map.

Levels and Curves: Photoshop's Left and Right Ventricles Pump Luminance

Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced Goes Live

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #24: Curves

Where luminance is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. It lets you reign in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

Tripping on Arbitrary Maps

The Fake HDR Portrait Technique, Revealed