Deke’s Techniques 060: Designing a Magically Updating Pattern

Nothing says "magic" like a dynamically updating pattern in Illustrator. No, I'm not talking about Illustrator's standard tile patterns. I'm talking pure unadulterated magic.

Deke’s Techniques 057: Drawing Trendy Swirls in Illustrator

This week, I draw you into a swirling vortex of spirals and show you how to create a couple of good-looking custom curlicues in Adobe Illustrator.

Deke’s Techniques 056: Coloring the Stripes on a Zebra

You may have heard that a leopard can't change it's spots. But a zebra can most assuredly change its stripes, with a little help from Deke and Photoshop.

Deke’s Techniques 054: Changing the Color of a Car

This week I show you how to change the color of a car (or any other object for that matter). Better yet, I show you how to do it the right way, so the results look impeccable.

Deke’s Techniques 053: Capturing a Monster in Motion

This week, I show you how to take a primitive monster and turn it into that one extraordinary shot you pulled off before everything went all Blair Witch on you.

Deke’s Techniques 051: Making a Fictional Creature in Photoshop

There is nothing so frightening as an entirely fictional creature that will tear your arms off and beat you with them. Which is what I show you how to create today.

Deke’s Techniques 050: Inventing Custom Starbursts

In this week's movie, Deke shows you two ways to create custom flares, blasts, and explosions using nothing more than a star-shaped path and a few effects.

Deke’s Techniques 048: Creating a Shooting Star in Illustrator

This week, I explore one of the oldest and best features in Adobe Illustrator, blends. Which are precisely what you need to create the brilliant effect of shooting stars.

Deke’s Techniques 046: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

This week, I show you how to take a stereoscopic photograph (fit for viewing with 3D glasses) and add text and shapes at different planes of depth.

Deke’s Techniques 044: Making a Stereoscopic Photo

Learn how to pull of one of the most arcane but ultimately practical techniques in Photoshop, the creation of a 3D stereoscopic photograph. (Glasses required.)

Deke’s Techniques 042: Creating a Classic Heart in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to draw a classic heart in Illustrator. Like the one above, but minus the nipples. Those big round lobes, they inspire so many ideas. :-)

Deke’s Techniques 041: Putting Wings on a Horse

It's a horse. It's a goose. It's a hoose! This week, I show you how to take two legitimate animals and merge them together to create a mythological creature.