Sampling Any Color Outside Photoshop

Deke shows you how to get outside Photoshop to bring back a chosen color for your project.

Imbuing Your Chuck Close Effect with Color

Deke takes his patterned portrait homage to Chuck Close and imbues it with color using radial gradients.

Smooth Color Adjustments in Lab Mode

In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke dispels the myth that using the Lab mode to adjust color is inherently destructive.

Infusing an Image with Vivid Nightclub Colors

In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke adds some vivid nightclub-esque colors to last week's homage to the MDNA album cover.

Deke's Techniques 349: A Low Color Photo with the Camera Raw Filter

Deke shows you how to use Photoshop CC's ability to apply Camera Raw as an editable filter to change the colors in a photograph.

Deke's Technique 260: Hand-Painting an Image in Photoshop (with a Wacom Cintiq)

Deke adds paint strokes and blended colors to a photograph to give it a hand-painted effect, using Photoshop and a Wacom Cintiq

Cool Colors: Kuler for iOS, free dekeDiagraming, and Other Stuff

Illustrator One-on-One CS6: Advanced Is Now Out at lynda.com

Deke's Techniques 175: Creating a Hand Turkey in Photoshop

Here in America, we have a long-standing tradition of giving thanks every November by tracing around our hands and decorating them like turkeys. This movie explains how.

I Woke to the Most Hilarious Experience

Deke's Techniques 056: Coloring the Stripes on a Zebra

You may have heard that a leopard can't change it's spots. But a zebra can most assuredly change its stripes, with a little help from Deke and Photoshop.

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.