Deke’s Techniques 304: Create Your Own Chinese Seal (or Chop)
Deke creates a Chinese-style personal seal in Adobe Illustrator
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Deke’s Techniques 303: A Totally Serious Photoshop Workflow
Deke shares a totally serious best practices workflow for Photoshop
Deke’s Techniques 302: Cleaning Up a Camera Phone Photo in Camera Raw
Deke shows you how to improve your camera phone photos in Camera Raw.
Deke’s Techniques 300: Blending an Object’s Shadow into Any Background
Deke shows you how to blend the cast shadow of an object into any new background.
Deke’s Techniques 299: Enhancing a Photo with Nondestructive Dodge and Burn
Deke uses black and white brushstrokes, opacity settings, and blend modes to create a dramatic but completely editable dodge and burn effect.
Deke’s Techniques 297: Correct a Distorted Panorama
Deke shares advice for fixing distortions and cleaning up a stitched panorama in Photoshop.
Deke’s Techniques 296: Removing a Photobomber with Classic Photoshop Tools
Deke attempts to remove an inadvertent photobomber from a group shot and discovers that sometimes the best tool for the job has been around since Photoshop 3.0.
Deke’s Techniques 294: Mastering Exposure in Camera Raw
Deke explains the inner mysteries of the Exposure setting in Adobe Camera Raw, and shows you how to bring a dark photo into the light.
Deke’s Techniques 292: Enlarging a Low-Res Photograph in Photoshop
Deke shows you how to enlarge a low resolution photograph in Photoshop with optimal results.
Deke’s Techniques 290: Drawing Happy Trees in Photoshop CC
Deke demonstrates one of the more obscure features in the newest Photoshop CC update: the ability to generate fake trees with the Pattern fill dialog box.
Deke’s Techniques 288: Upsampling a Layered Composition in Photoshop
Deke explains the fine art of upsampling a layered composition in Photoshop, taking photos, graphics, text, and patterns into account.
Deke’s Techniques 287: Exporting Your Avatar as a PNG from Photoshop
Deke exports an avatar---born in Photoshop, refined in Illustrator---back to Photoshop for export as a .png file.