Deke's Techniques 051: Making a Fictional Creature in Photoshop

There is nothing so frightening as an entirely fictional creature that will tear your arms off and beat you with them. Which is what I show you how to create today.

Getting Started with InDesign and Illustrator

Deke's Techniques 046: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

This week, I show you how to take a stereoscopic photograph (fit for viewing with 3D glasses) and add text and shapes at different planes of depth.

Deke's Techniques 044: Making a Stereoscopic Photo

Learn how to pull of one of the most arcane but ultimately practical techniques in Photoshop, the creation of a 3D stereoscopic photograph. (Glasses required.)

Add the Definitive Edge with Sharpening

Deke's Techniques 042: Creating a Classic Heart in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to draw a classic heart in Illustrator. Like the one above, but minus the nipples. Those big round lobes, they inspire so many ideas. :-)

Deke's Techniques 041: Putting Wings on a Horse

It's a horse. It's a goose. It's a hoose! This week, I show you how to take two legitimate animals and merge them together to create a mythological creature.

Deke's Techniques 039: Hand Kerning Inside a Single Character of Type

In this week's episode, I show you how to kern the space inside of a composite typographic character like the percent symbol, pictured above.

Deke's Techniques 037: Creating Synthetic Wood Grain

In this week's technique, I show you how to create 100% synthetic wood grain using Smart Filters in Photoshop. All without harming so much as a single tree!

Deke's Techniques 035: Removing People with Image Stacks

This week, I show you how to merge multiple exposures of a single scene and wipe out all of the moving stuff (namely, the people) using the little-known image stacks.

Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Scenes Goes Live @ lynda.com

Deke's Techniques 034: Assembling a Flawless Panorama

Photoshop lets you assemble a handful of 12-megapixel photos into an utterly flawless 3 foot-wide panorama. Provided that you know what you're doing.