As of this moment, Adobe has released at least two sneak peeks on the topic of Photoshop CS6. The above is from Bryan O’Neil Hughes, who appeared on many of my audio podcasts, Martini Hours. Next, here’s a link to…

Today, I’m offline on a personal adventure. And yet, I still manage to offer you a kind of adventure as well. In the form of Adventure Type in Photoshop. Here’s the official description from lynda.com: Read?more???…

This week’s technique is going to seem boring a hell or wickedly wonderful as hell depending on your state of mind. Good old fanciful old Hell. It’s either hideously horrible or astoundingly attractive based on your momentary whims.But here’s the…

This week’s technique is going to seem boring a hell or wickedly wonderful as hell depending on your state of mind. Good old fanciful old Hell. It’s either hideously horrible or astoundingly attractive based on your momentary whims.But here’s the…

This week’s technique is going to seem boring a hell or wickedly wonderful as hell depending on your state of mind. Good old fanciful old Hell. It’s either hideously horrible or astoundingly attractive based on your momentary whims.But here’s the…

Just a note to let you know that I’ve begun work on my next video course for lynda.com, which will be called Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Fundamentals. The course is slated to be 9 chapters long, and it will set…

Things have been crazy around here lately. So forgive me for just now finally getting around to posting the fact that my beloved video publisher, lynda.com, has released the fourth and last in my series of crash courses on Adobe…

Last week, I changed a red car to solid gold and then, in the lynda.com Online Training Library, to jet black. This week, I do something very nearly resembling the opposite. That is to say, I take the “black” (cuz…

Have you ever noticed that an awful lot of Photoshop experts spend an awful lot of time doing an awful lot of stuff to pictures of cars? As an equal-opportunity image editor, I’ve never quite understood the car fixation. (I…

Just last Thursday, lynda.com released the third in my series of four video crash courses on Adobe programs, Up and Running with Photoshop for Design. I’m so proud, I decided to provide you with a blow-by-blow description. It is, if…

I’ve had a couple of questions about when I’ll be releasing the last of my four-part video series on 3D in Photoshop for lynda.com, Photoshop Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects. After all, I started the series nearly five months ago,…

Last week, I showed you how to combine three real-world animals into an entirely fictional creature. This week, I show you how to take last week’s image and turn it into a plausible likeness of the one extraordinary shot that…

You know how folks like to worry about how Photoshop is messing with our shared notion of reality? For example, how do we know for certain that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris? Maybe someone Photoshopped it in there and…

Over the last 12 months, I’ve recorded approximately 144 hours of video training on Adobe’s CS5 applications. That’s 12 courses in all, and enough video to consume 18 days of your life if you did nothing but watch me 8…

Hey gang. This week’s Deke’s Techniques videos are all about adding text and shapes to a 3D stereoscopic photograph, like the one created in last week’s technique. In today’s free movie, I show you how to add text and shapes…

As I write this, I’ve published 20 hours of video training on the topic of 3D imaging in Photoshop. (For those who may be curious, it begins with the 5-hour Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Fundamentals, about which you can…

Hello all. In this week’s Technique, I show you how to draw a classic heart shape in Adobe Illustrator. The introductory graphic is a bit misleading. I don’t actually add the stylized highlights and shadows. Nor do I add the…

It’s a horse. It’s a goose. It’s a hoose! Which is precisely what we’ll be doing this week. In today’s free weekly Deke’s Techniques, I’ll show you how to take two legitimate animals—from different sides of the taxonomic track—and merge…

Those of you who pay attention to this site may recall that, several months ago, I solicited your suggestions for future episodes of my weekly Deke’s Techniques. Well, today’s episode marks the first answer to such a suggestion, one posted…

Although Photoshop has the word “photo” in its title, a remarkably small percentage of Photoshop users identify themselves as photographers. In contrast, more than half call themselves designers. (In case you’re wondering who the heck else uses the program, think…