Deke’s Techniques 084: Drawing Rays of Light in Photoshop

This week, I build further on my completely fabricated but no less green energy project, adding an unnatural but sustainable starburst glow around a lightbulb.

Deke’s Techniques 082: Tracing an Image with Path Outlines

Forget the Pen tool. Selecting a complex object without relying on the Byzantine manipulation of anchor points and control handles is a handy way to trace stuff in Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 079: Rendering a Portrait in Type

Is a portrait worth a thousand words? This week, I show you how to superimpose layers of text over a face to create an image that's literal and visceral at the same time.

Deke’s Techniques 077: Creating a Synthetic Rainbow

This week, I bring on the screen magic, creating not just a synthetic rainbow, but also a floating and highly aggressive skyshark. It's the stuff of legend.

Deke’s Techniques 076: Miniaturizing the World in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to make the world small, as if you---quite by contrast---have become inexplicably and fantastically HUGE. (Use your newfound powers wisely.)

Deke’s Techniques 074: Preparing an HDR Zombie in “The Lab”

This week, I show you how to begin turning the near-dead living into the absolute living dead. It starts with a faux-HDR technique that favors Photoshop's Lab Mode.

Deke’s Techniques 071: Drawing a Halloween Scareflake

Today I show you how to create the ultimate Halloween project, a "scareflake," in Adobe Illustrator. This thing's so amazing, we have to bring it into Photoshop, too.

Deke’s Techniques 069: Creating an Ambigram in Illustrator

This week, I turn your world upside-down, only to find that it's the same as it was when right-side up. Created from start-to-finish as hand-drawn type in Adobe Illustrator.

Deke’s Techniques 067: Filtering Images with Camera Raw

This week, learn how to use Camera Raw as a filtering engine, with better results than you'd expect from most of the commands available from Photoshop's Filter menu.

Deke’s Techniques 064: Creating the Perfect Command Key

In this week's free video, I show you how to create the perfect infinitely looping Command key symbol in Adobe Illustrator, and even project it into 3D space.

Deke’s Techniques 063: Healing One Eye onto Another

This week, I show you how to flip and rotate a good eye so you can heal it onto a bad one. All from one of Photoshop's least known panels, Clone Source.

Deke’s Techniques 061: Auto-Collapsing a Selection Outline

In today's video, I show you how to marquee a portion of a flat image file and automatically contract the marquee to fit the selected element. Just like in the old days.