Deke’s Techniques

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

Deke’s Techniques 262: Creating a Honeycomb Pattern from Scratch in Illustrator

Deke creates a professional honeycomb pattern in Adobe Illustrator by applying dynamic effects to a simple hexagon.

Deke’s Technique 260: Hand-Painting an Image in Photoshop (with a Wacom Cintiq)

Deke adds paint strokes and blended colors to a photograph to give it a hand-painted effect, using Photoshop and a Wacom Cintiq

Deke’s Techniques 258: Adding a Soundtrack to Your Photoshop Video

Deke shows you how to add music (and some key color adjustments) to your Photoshop video project.

Deke’s Techniques 256: Editing a GoPro Video in Photoshop

Deke creates the introduction to his epic movie, "The DJI Phantom Menace," by editing clips inside Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 254: Merging Video Frames to Create the Best Aerial Drone-Captured Still Photograp

Deke uses Adobe Camera Raw's Median Stack filter to combine video frames taken with his aerial drone into a the best possible still photograph.

Deke’s Techniques 253: Drawing the Pen Tool Icon in Illustrator Without Using the Pen Tool

In this week's free movie, Deke draws the pen tool icon in Adobe Illustrator without actually using the Pen tool

Deke’s Techniques 250: Precisely Align Objects to the Grid in Illustrator

Deke creates a useful chart with the help of precise alignment provided by Illustrator's grid feature.

Deke’s Techniques 249: Creating Golden Motion Trails in Photoshop

Deke invents a Photoshop filter recipe that lets you turn ordinary silhouettes into superheros with golden motion trails.

Deke’s Techniques 247: RGB to CMYK Directly

Deke takes a different approach to RGB to CMYK conversion, using direct correlation for better results.

Deke’s Techniques 246: Creating a (More Finely Rendered) Dot Drawing in Photoshop

Deke takes another approach to turning a portrait into a dot drawing in Photoshop. This time with more refined, higher resolution results.

Deke’s Techniques 244: Creating Psychedelic Fabric in Photoshop

Deke uses nothing but Photoshop (a couple of gradients and its Wave filter) to create a psychedelic fabric effect in Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 243: Recreating the Creative Cloud Logo in Illustrator

Deke uses Adobe Illustrator to recreate Adobe's own (very attractive) Creative Cloud logo from scratch.