Deke’s Techniques

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

Infusing an Image with Vivid Nightclub Colors

In this week's free Deke's Techniques video, Deke adds some vivid nightclub-esque colors to last week's homage to the MDNA album cover.

Deke’s Techniques 396: Put Your Photo Behind Ribbed Glass

Deke puts a photograph behind a Photoshop-created wall of ribbed glass.

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.

Deke’s Techniques 393: Assembling DICOM Slices into a 3D Image in Photoshop

Deke takes an MRI of his own knee and uses the DICOM files to create a 3D image in Photoshop CC.

Deke’s Techniques 391: Chiseling Letters into Stone

Deke chisels letters into a stone background in Photoshop, thus indulging his pechant for Roman antiquities.

Deke’s Techniques 389: Create Your Own Romantic Island Getaway

Deke enhances an island landscape with the Adaptive Wide Angle filter, some Camera Raw adjustments, and some Smart Sharpening.

Deke’s Techniques 388: Smooth Away Noise with the Mean Stack Mode

Deke uses the Mean Stack mode in Photoshop to blend fifteen frames into one noise-reduced photo.

Deke’s Techniques 386: Selectively Adjusting Colors for Print

Deke makes some selective adustments to the color of an illustration in Photoshop in order to get the best print.

Deke’s Techniques 384: Creating an Origami Flower in Illustrator

Deke uses dynamic effects in Illustrator to fold up the petals of a flower into a virtual origami chrysanthemum.

Deke’s Techniques 382: Drawing a Vector Flower in Illustrator

Deke starts with a simple circle shape and uses Illustrator's transformative powers of dynamic effect to create a mesmorizing, multicolored flower.

Deke’s Techniques 380: Clearing the Recently Used Fonts List from InDesign

Deke shows you how to rid yourself of that annoying Recently Used Fonts list in InDesign.

Deke’s Techniques 377: Two Ways to Create Center Guides in Photoshop

How to create center guides using the View > New Guide command.