Deke's Techniques 097: Creating Type that Inverts Anything Behind It

Create text, in Photoshop, that provides absolute and unambiguous contrast with everything in the composite image behind it. Automatically.

Eat This, Not That: Photoshop Style

Deke's Techniques 095: Turning a Photo Into Line Art

This week, Deke shows how to turn an ordinary portrait into a line drawing. If nature didn't endow you with the ability to draw, Photoshop is the way to go.

Photoshop's Most Amazing Self-Party, Ever

Top Twelve Toolkit for 2012

Deke's Techniques 094: Capturing a Real-Life Cast Shadow

It's one thing to impeccably mask an image into a new scene. It's another to get the masked image to interact with its new environment. What it needs is a shadow.

Deke's Techniques 091: Removing Unwanted People from a Photo with Photoshop

In this first-anniversary episode of Deke's Techniques, I show you how to remove unwanted people from a photo and leave a pristine background in their place.

Learn How to Mask Hair, Down to the Final Fragile Follicle, in Photoshop

Deke's Techniques 089: Creating a Stained-Glass Ornament

This week, I yield forth A Special Holiday Gift: specifically, a precious stained-glass ornament. What it lacks in stature in makes up for in pure training mass.

Photoshop Masking & Compositing: The Free PDF Companion

A Car of Many Colors

Deke's Techniques 088: Masking with Photoshop's Blunt Instruments

Today I show you how to muscle your way through a mask, and a complex one at that. All it takes is a few blunt tools, lots of brute force, and perseverance.