deke.com posts about letters

Making One Object Blend Effect Cut through Another

Deke shows you how to take letters extruded with Illustrator's object blend effect and make one blend "pass through"another

Deke's Techniques 346: Creating Uniform Hand Drawn Letters in Illustrator

Deke shows you how to create custom hand-drawn letters in Illustrator, with tips for how to repeat shapes so that they look like a cohesive font.

Deke's Techniques 172: Creating 3D Punched Letters in Illustrator

Today I show you how to create punched-out 3D letters in Adobe Illustrator, turning the plain old word 'good' into something even better.

Deke's Techniques 160: Hand-Carving Letters into Wood in Photoshop

Today I show you how to hand-carve letters into a wooden sign. If that's not enough, there's a text description, too!

Deke's Techniques 115: Creating Leafy Letters in Photoshop

This week, Deke combines a text layer and a leafy photo to create letters that appear to be made from foliage. And it's all a simple function of Refine Mask.

Deke's Techniques 069: Creating an Ambigram in Illustrator

This week, I turn your world upside-down, only to find that it's the same as it was when right-side up. Created from start-to-finish as hand-drawn type in Adobe Illustrator.