Deke’s Techniques 285: Making a Scalable Avatar in Illustrator
Deke uses paths lifted from a photograph in Photoshop to create a scalable, vector-based avatar in Illustrator.
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Deke’s Techniques 284: Tracing a Photo in Photoshop to Create an Avatar
Deke traces a photo with the pen tool as the first step in creating an avatar in Illustrator.
Deke’s Techniques 282: New Year Graphic with Dynamic Effects in Illustrator
Deke uses dynamic effects, repeating patterns, and an opacity mask to create a festive graphic for the new year.
Deke’s Techniques 280: Developing HDR Images in Camera Raw
Deke demonstrates how to take a set of bracketed shots and develop them into a powerful HDR landscape with Camera Raw inside Photoshop CC
Deke’s Techniques 277: Painting an Eye in Photoshop
Deke paints an eye in Photoshop, using a custom brush to create the iris.
Deke’s Techniques 275: Creating a Roy Lichtenstein-esque Effect
Deke uses Photoshop and Illustrator to turn a photograph into a Lichtenstein homage.
Deke’s Techniques 273: The Very Pigture of a Happy Thanksgiving to You
Deke turns a childhood trick of turning letters into a pig and makes a heart-warming, ham-filled story for Thanksgiving.
Deke’s Techniques 271: Tracing Hand-Drawn Art with Uniform Strokes in Illustrator
Deke takes a sketch drawn with pencil, enhances it in Photoshop, then traces it in Illustrator with resulting uniform lines.
Deke’s Techniques 269: Cleaning Up a Crummy Product Shot
Deke cleans up a low-quality, highly flawed product shot in Photoshop.
Deke’s Techniques 268: Creating Heavy Metal Type (in Photoshop CS6 and Later)
Deke updates his heavy metal type effect from an early episode with the necessary changes for Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop Creative Cloud.
Deeeeeke’s Techniques 266: Creating Dripping Gooey Letters for Halloween (or Any Other Suitably Ghas
Deke creates oozing, dripping letters for Halloween in Photoshop with a pinch of Illustrator.
Deke’s Techniques 264: Turning Yourself into a Zombie in Photoshop
Deke turns two unsuspecting zombie posers into real life zombies using powers available in Photoshop CC.