Deke’s Techniques 106: Drawing a Highly Graphic Explosion

In just two days, Adobe Illustrator turns 25 years old. Today, I celebrate Illustrator and the wider world of vector art with a technique that'll blow you away.

Deke’s Techniques 104: Creating a Vanity Frame

In this week's free movie, Deke shows you how to create a perfectly spaced frame around a graphic (whatever it may be) inside a Photoshop file.

Deke’s Techniques 102: Drawing with the Reshape Tool

Happy Valentine's Day. In honor of the occasion, I've come up with a tasty red candy of a technique, based on a misunderstood feature called the Reshape tool.

Deke’s Techniques 100: Creating an Dual-Focus Hybrid Image

Learn how to create a specific and famous flavor of optical illusion. When viewed from far away, the image appears as one thing; when viewed close up, it appears as another.

Deke’s Techniques 099: Creating Great Movie Poster Credits in Illustrator

Have you heard about Warichu inside Adobe Illustrator? Unless you live in Japan, I'm guessing not. And yet it's just the ticket for formatting American movie poster credits.

Deke’s Techniques 097: Creating Type that Inverts Anything Behind It

Create text, in Photoshop, that provides absolute and unambiguous contrast with everything in the composite image behind it. Automatically.

Deke’s Techniques 095: Turning a Photo Into Line Art

This week, Deke shows how to turn an ordinary portrait into a line drawing. If nature didn't endow you with the ability to draw, Photoshop is the way to go.

Deke’s Techniques 094: Capturing a Real-Life Cast Shadow

It's one thing to impeccably mask an image into a new scene. It's another to get the masked image to interact with its new environment. What it needs is a shadow.

Deke’s Techniques 091: Removing Unwanted People from a Photo with Photoshop

In this first-anniversary episode of Deke's Techniques, I show you how to remove unwanted people from a photo and leave a pristine background in their place.

Deke’s Techniques 089: Creating a Stained-Glass Ornament

This week, I yield forth A Special Holiday Gift: specifically, a precious stained-glass ornament. What it lacks in stature in makes up for in pure training mass.

Deke’s Techniques 088: Masking with Photoshop’s Blunt Instruments

Today I show you how to muscle your way through a mask, and a complex one at that. All it takes is a few blunt tools, lots of brute force, and perseverance.

Deke’s Techniques 086: Designing an Indiana Jones Logo

If you're craving real Photoshop adventure, this week's video is just what you seek. Deke creates a classic Indiana Jones-style logo, complete with a bending gradient.