Deke’s Techniques

Your weekly quick-fix of Deke, with ideas you may inspire or inform your own projects.

Creating Crinkled Paper with Clouds in Photoshop

Deke uses Photoshop's Clouds filter to make a crinkled-paper background for an old-time brochure.

Auto-Stitching Scanned Artwork in Photoshop

Deke uses Photoshop to meticulously stitch together two scans of a family heirloom document.

Drawing a Half-Circle Highlight in Keynote

Deke figures out how to draw a semi-circle to highlight a key element of a keynote slide.

Creating Offset Path Inline Strokes in Illustrator Type

Deke finishes his exploration of inline stroke type effects by putting Illustrator's offset path feature to work.

Masking Inline Text Strokes in Illustrator

Deke takes his inline text effect and masks it so that the strokes end within the letterforms.

Center-Stroking Letters in Illustrator

Deke takes a viewer's suggestion to recreate an inline type effect in Adobe Illustrator.

Fixing Jagged Illustrator Artwork in Photoshop

Deke explains anti-aliasing in Illustrator and how you get to maintain the anti-aliased effecst when you move artwork to Photoshop.

Mastering Adobe Illustrator 88

Deke takes a look back at an old version of Adobe Illustrator in honor of AI's 30th anniversary.

Creating an LCD Screen Effect in Photoshop

Deke adds a pattern to his LCD screen recreation that gives it the authentic look of an actual screen.

Capturing a Screen that Can’t Be Captured

Deke uses Photoshop to recreate the LCD screen on the back of a Nikon DSLR.

Twirling a Portrait in Photoshop

Deke uses last week's twirling technique to make a one-of-a-kind portrait.

Creating Twirl Art in Photoshop

Deke uses some old school Photoshop filters to make old school but on-trend twirly art.