Deke's Techniques 377: Two Ways to Create Center Guides in Photoshop
How to create center guides using the View > New Guide command.
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Deke's Techniques 185: Creating a Custom, Entirely Accurate New Year's 2013 Calendar in Illustrator
This week I show you how to create a one-page, full-year calendar for the year 2013. All inside Adobe Illustrator.
Deke's Techniques 132: Adding Photographic Texture to Vector Type in Illustrator
This week, I show you how to take a couple of cloud photographs and cram them into some vector-based text objects, inside Adobe Illustrator.
Deke's Techniques 125: Making a Person Emerge from Water in Photoshop
Have you ever wanted to take a photograph of a client, friend, or loved one, and make that person appear to emerge from water, in Photoshop? Here's how.
Deke's Techniques 123: Joining Type to a Circle in Illustrator
Today marks Deke's first-ever video recorded in Illustrator CS6. And it's all about a topic as old as the hills: how to create type along both the top and bottom of a circle.
Deke's Techniques 121: Reflecting Type in Water
In this week's free Deke's Techniques, Deke reflects on how to make it appear as though text is mirrored in rippled water.
Deke's Techniques 119: Rendering Type in Brushed Metal in (Good Old But Also Recently New) Photoshop
Today I show you how to render type in brushed metal using a couple of smart filters and some layer effects.
Deke's Techniques 118: Rendering Type in Smoke in Photoshop
This week, I show you how to render type in smoke (as featured in my Photoshop CS6 movies). It's easy to do and you can edit your text any time you like.
Deke's Techniques 117: Creating Turfy Type in Photoshop
Today, I offer you another text effect. Specifically, I'll show you how to render text in grass, down to the finest blade, against a dirt background. Complete with a golf ball.
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 114: Creating a Star Wars Hologram Effect in Photoshop CS6
Deke uses a variety of Photoshop effects to turn a couple of unsuspecting rental car agents from this world into rental car agents from a galaxy far, far away.
