Deke’s Techniques

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

Deke’s Techniques 352: Extracting a Masterpiece from Its Frame

Deke shows you how to create your own personal copy of a classic public-domain masterpiece, by removing the frame and distortion from a photograph.

Deke’s Techniques 349: A Low Color Photo with the Camera Raw Filter

Deke shows you how to use Photoshop CC's ability to apply Camera Raw as an editable filter to change the colors in a photograph.

Deke’s Techniques 346: Creating Uniform Hand Drawn Letters in Illustrator

Deke shows you how to create custom hand-drawn letters in Illustrator, with tips for how to repeat shapes so that they look like a cohesive font.

Deke’s Techniques 344: Creating the 3D Ring (to End All Rings, or Something Like That)

Deke recreates the most famous ring in literary history (at least as far as geeks are concerned) in Illustrator.

Deke’s Techniques 343: Baking a 3D Donut in Illustrator

Deke bakes delicious 3D donuts from people's heads in Illustrator

Deke’s Techniques 341: Integrating a 3D Object into a 2D Scene

Deke extends Shark Week by incorporating a completely synthetic shark into a formerly sharkless ocean.

Deke’s Techniques 340: Select Focus Area and Pseudo Engraving

Deke uses the Photoshop's new ability to select based on focus area to isolate a portrait and turn it into a currency style engraving.

Deke’s Techniques 338: The Four Interlocking Hands of Brotherhood and Teamwork

Deke shows you how to make a classic four-square intertwined handshake of peace, brotherhood, and teamwork inside Adobe Illustrator.

Deke’s Techniques 336: Drawing a Clenched Hand in Illustrator

Deke shows you how to draw a hand in Illustrator, traced from a photo of a sketch in Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 334: Straightening and “Uncropping” a Photograph

Deke straightens a once-in-a-lifetime family photo, then "uncrops" the photo by filling in background and restoring missing details.

Deke’s Techniques 333: Selectively Converting Parts of Your Image to Black & White

Deke reveals how to turn part of an image to black & white whilst leaving other elements highly saturated.

Deke’s Techniques 330: Create a Penrose Triangle of Cubes in Illustrator

Deke creates an Escher-esque Penrose triangle made of individual cubes in Adobe Illustrator.