Happy Birthday, Adobe Illustrator!

Deke's Techniques 102: Drawing with the Reshape Tool

Happy Valentine's Day. In honor of the occasion, I've come up with a tasty red candy of a technique, based on a misunderstood feature called the Reshape tool.

Deke's Techniques 082: Tracing an Image with Path Outlines

Forget the Pen tool. Selecting a complex object without relying on the Byzantine manipulation of anchor points and control handles is a handy way to trace stuff in Photoshop.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Newbies select images with the quick select and magic wand tools. Highly automated, but they rarely work. Experts use the pen tool. It's an art form unto itself, but it always works.