Tracing a Specific Letterform with a Shape Tool in Adobe Illustrator 2021

Deke uses the new Snap to Glyph option in Adobe Illustrator 2021 to fill in the counters of a few O's with a relative ease that was previously hard to come by.

Aligning to Point Type in Adobe Illustrator

Deke demonstrates the immense usefulness of Adobe Illustrator's new Align to Glyph features, which give you better control when aligning to point or area type.

New Ways to Scale Type in Adobe Illustrator 2021

Deke explores the new feature in Illustrator 2021 that allows you to set the height of your fonts based on things like x-height or Cap height.

Introducing...Introducing Illustrator 2020

Deke's newest course, Introducing Illustrator, is designed for those of you who open Illustrator with an eye to making a "simple" graphic, and get horribly lost before the first curve is drawn.

Introducing Trajan Color Concept

Deke introduces you to Adobe's concept font, Trajan Color, with some tips on how to use it in both Photoshop and Illustrator.

Deke's Techniques 394: Adding Strokes and Fills to Type in Illustrator

Deke teaches you how to add strokes and fills to your type in Adobe Illustrator, providing a workaround for the limited power of individual character attributes.

Magically Inverting Text in Photoshop

Deke's Techniques 183: Creating a Hobbit Movie Logo Effect in Adobe AI and Photoshop

In this week's installment, I show you how to create text that looks just like the logo for The Hobbit movie poster. Which is great, even if the movie is kinda lame.

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 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.

Photoshop reflection gone wrong

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.