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Deke's Techniques 249: Creating Golden Motion Trails in Photoshop 27 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
First, let me get my bearings, because I just spelt silhouette correctly. This is important because this week's free Deke's Techniques episode takes these ordinary jumping silhouettes, who've managed ...
The DJI Phantom (Menace): Deke's Awesome Adventure in Aerial Photography 24 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
"One man's quest to master aerial photography armed with nothing more than a DJI Phantom quadcopter, a GoPro Hero 3, and an irrepressible optimism in the face of potential (and ultimate) destruction."...
A Sense of Intermediacy: New Intermediate Courses for Photoshop and Illustrator CC 23 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
It was a windfall week in video training if you're ready to move past Deke's beginner-level courses and you're using Creative Cloud. This week, online training company lynda.com released CC-friendly v...
Deke's Techniques 247: RGB to CMYK Directly 20 Aug 2013 | 10:50 am
Converting to CMYK is one of the most destructive things you can do to your RGB file. In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, Deke reveals a method that maintains the original luminance data of...
Photoshop Content Awareness: the Move, the Patch, the Cheating at Golf 20 Aug 2013 | 09:36 am
In honor of the first chapter of Deke's latest course update, Photoshop CC One-on-One: Intermediate, I got to thinking about interesting uses of the Content-Aware family of Photoshop tools (the subjec...
Repeat Performance: InDesign's Useful if Imperfect Transform Again Individually Command 17 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
Full disclaimer, I stole, borrowed, actually learnt the following knowledge thanks to a tweet from Friend of dekeOnline and former InDesign PM Michael Ninness. Every once in a while---probably when he...
Deke's Techniques 246: Creating a (More Finely Rendered) Dot Drawing in Photoshop 13 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
Never let it be said that Deke's not a man who continues to think about, possibly even (occasionally) obsess over, his past projects. If you tuned in a few weeks ago, you saw his Photoshop filter-base...
Friday Fundamentals: Making Great Selections with Color Range in Photoshop 10 Aug 2013 | 10:43 am
This week's Friday Fundamentals covers an amazingly useful tool that was designed to take the place of a less amazing tool with a much sexier name. Yes, I speak of the clumsily named but ever so effic...
Deke's Techniques 244: Creating Psychedelic Fabric in Photoshop 6 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
This week's Deke's Techniques episode falls into my favorite category of "Deke makes something from nothing, except Photoshop." I love these projects for three reasons (or at least I had three reasons...
Deke's Techniques 243: Recreating the Creative Cloud Logo in Illustrator 30 Jul 2013 | 12:44 pm
Whatever you're feeling about Adobe's Creative Cloud, you gotta admit it's got one handsome logo. In fact, it's got a logo that happens to be the perfect Adobe Illustrator Exercise of Awesomeness---re...
