Deke’s Techniques 152: Drawing a Perfect Linear Spiral in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to draw an Archimedean spiral (which is the kinda of spiral you want to create) using Illustrator's obscure but handy Polar Grid tool.

Deke’s Techniques 151: Creating a Screen Print Effect in Photoshop

Learn how to create a screen printing effect, complete with meticulously misregistered colors. The black lines go one way, the colors go the other, the blue sky stays fast.

Deke’s Techniques 149: Hand-Coloring Line Art in Photoshop

In this week's happy, idyllic technique, I show you a range of tips and tricks for coloring a line drawing in Photoshop. Using layers. It's a thing of beauty, it really is..

Deke’s Techniques 148: The Octagonal Rings of the Underworld

This week, I dropped everything I was doing and recorded a movie in which I show you how to create the interlocking Olympic rings (in honor of London, 2012!) in Illustrator.

Deke’s Techniques 141: Pimping Your Ride in Photoshop

Today I kick off Deke's Techniques: The Challenge with a new technique based on five from the past. Along the way, I'll transform a crap car into an awesome one!

Deke’s Techniques 139: Turning Illustrator Path Outlines into Photoshop Shape Layers

This week, you'll increase your graphic super powers by turning the Illustrator path outlines from last week's project into independent shape layers in Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 138: Creating a Superhero Shield in Adobe Illustrator

Just in time for the 4th of July, I show you how to create a shiny, reflective superhero shield in Illustrator. It's a long, intense technique, but it's super cool as well.

Deke’s Techniques 136: Building a Sci-Fi Temple from Scratch in Photoshop CS6 Extended 3D

Today, I pay appropriate 3D homage to my alien overlords by building them a temple out of plain old earthly linear gradients and a little thing called a depth map.

Deke’s Techniques 134: Adding a Border to an Image in Illustrator

This is the day that Deke's Techniques amps up from casual to serious. Because this very day, I begin in earnest to kick some seriously vector-based ass.

Deke’s Techniques 132: Adding Photographic Texture to Vector Type in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to take a couple of cloud photographs and cram them into some vector-based text objects, inside Adobe Illustrator.

Deke’s Techniques 130: Head Shrinking in Photoshop

The title speaks for itself. This week, I give guy a little head, quite literally (pull your mind out of the gutter!), in Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 128: Creating Silky Smooth Skin in Photoshop

Today I offer a classic retouching technique. I take a photograph of a lovely woman and make her skin look wonderfully, reasonably, and altogether realistically smooth.