Deke’s Techniques 039: Hand Kerning Inside a Single Character of Type

In this week's episode, I show you how to kern the space inside of a composite typographic character like the percent symbol, pictured above.

Deke’s Techniques 037: Creating Synthetic Wood Grain

In this week's technique, I show you how to create 100% synthetic wood grain using Smart Filters in Photoshop. All without harming so much as a single tree!

Deke’s Techniques 035: Removing People with Image Stacks

This week, I show you how to merge multiple exposures of a single scene and wipe out all of the moving stuff (namely, the people) using the little-known image stacks.

Deke’s Techniques 034: Assembling a Flawless Panorama

Photoshop lets you assemble a handful of 12-megapixel photos into an utterly flawless 3 foot-wide panorama. Provided that you know what you're doing.

Deke’s Techniques 033: Creating a Talk Show-Style Curtain

This week, I show you how to create a "talk show-style" curtain. Like the kind Johnny Carson used to walked through. Back when people watched TV.

Deke’s Techniques 031: Splitting and Modifying 3D Meshes

This week, I show you how to take a basic 3D pie chart, split its meshes, color its slices, and otherwise make it a tangible slice of business-graphics reality.

Deke’s Techniques 030: Creating a 3D Pie Chart

This week, I show you how to take some basic spreadsheet data, graph it in Illustrator, and extrude that graph in lustrous 3D detail in Photoshop CS5 Extended.

Deke’s Techniques 028: Creating a Seamlessly Repeating Pattern in Photoshop

This week, I show you how to create a seamlessly repeating tile pattern in Photoshop, which involves as many applications of the Offset filter as it requires leaps of logic.

Deke’s Techniques 026: Turning a Photo Into an Ink Drawing

This week, I show you how use an everyday average collection of smart filters to turn a high-contrast photograph into a credible ink drawing.

Deke’s Techniques 025: Correcting Red-eye like a pro

This week, I show you how to make red pupils black, the right way. To which you might respond, really, red-eye?! But trust me, it's a great technique.

Deke’s Techniques 023: Fixing Chromatic Aberrations in Photoshop

This week's technique exposes that hidden plague of nearly every photograph, transverse chromatic aberrations. It's hideous to see but easy to correct.

Deke’s Techniques 022: Simulating Subpixel Rendering

In this movie, I tell you how subpixel rendering works and how to simulate it in Photoshop. If you make small type for screen images, it'll make all the tiny difference in the world.