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Deke's Techniques 179: Creating a Shiny Button with Inset Text in Photoshop

This week, I take the shimmering, glowing jewel that I created last week and turn it into a shimmering, glowing Panic button. Just in time for the crazy, kooky holidays.

Deke's Techniques 177: Creating a Shimmering Round Jewel in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to create something lovely and precious---specifically, a shimmering round jewel---entirely from scratch, inside Photoshop.

Deke's Techniques 128: Creating Silky Smooth Skin in Photoshop

Today I offer a classic retouching technique. I take a photograph of a lovely woman and make her skin look wonderfully, reasonably, and altogether realistically smooth.