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• Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals Goes Live

  • Monday, 31 May 2010, 22:15 PDT (31 May 2010)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  Hello, gang. I hope Memorial Day treated you well and you are now back in the saddle and riding high on this Tuesday, the 1st day of the 1st month of Summer.
  Just a quick note to let you know:…

• InDesign CS4 Trades CS5 for Sex

  • Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 19:15 PDT (19 May 2010)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - InDesign

  So there I was last night, working on my upcoming book Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One, when I happened to type "CS5" into InDesign CS4. Not surprisingly, this older model version of the software did not recognize "CS5" and tagged the…

• Just wrapped up Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals

  • Sunday, 2 May 2010, 13:15 PDT (2 May 2010)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  A couple of nights ago, too much traffic knocked the site down for 10 full hours. Which made me ecstatic. Thanks for the chaos!
  Meanwhile, the purpose for today’s post is to alert you of ongoing progress made on my…

• “Photoshop CS4 Smart Objects” Is Complete

  • Saturday, 19 Sep 2009, 14:38 PDT (19 September 2009)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  Update: As of November 6, "Photoshop CS4 Smart Objects" is now available at lynda.com. Members of the lynda.com Online Training Library can check out this link, Photoshop CS4: Smart Objects, for the entire course.
  Well friends, more than 1900 of…

• “Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Mastery” Is Complete (and “Advanced” Is Out)

  • Sunday, 19 Jul 2009, 21:00 PDT (19 July 2009)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  As many of you know, my beloved video publisher lynda.com has released the second part of my "Illustrator One-on-One" video series, Advanced. Together with Part 1, Fundamentals, this brings my Illustrator CS4 content to 330 movies lasting nearly 30 hours.…

• GridIron Flow (Finally!) Ships

  • Monday, 29 Jun 2009, 08:58 PDT (29 June 2009)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  Followers of this site may recall a recent Martini Hour in which Colleen and I interview Karen Gauthier, product manager of a promising new application called GridIron Flow. Karen and I go way back to her days with Adobe, and…

• The Mating Habits of the Pen Tool

  • Thursday, 2 Apr 2009, 03:53 PDT (2 April 2009)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  dekePod Episode 013: With this episode, we resume our regularly scheduled programming. Beginning with one of the most powerful but convoluted features in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign: the pen tool. Some artists take to it right away, others just don’t…

• Okay, You Illustrator Enthusiastz

  • Monday, 22 Dec 2008, 02:29 PST (22 December 2008)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  Your push back is duly acknowledged. My video series Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals is done, and it features the Queen of Murder rendered as both a skateboard and a surfboard. For the extreme sportz setz, don’t you know?

  And now…

• Ho Ho Ho, Free Training for the Holidays!

  • Thursday, 18 Dec 2008, 21:00 PST (18 December 2008)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - InDesign

  A few weeks ago, when I was up to my ears in a certain Photoshop CS4 Channels and Masks One-on-One book (that will otherwise remain nameless), I was thinking, "Gosh, I wonder what kind of documentation Adobe provides these days?"…

• Bernhard-Free Documents

  • Thursday, 18 Dec 2008, 20:00 PST (18 December 2008)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - InDesign

  Dear LPersonne (not to mention other persons),
  I am so excited to have published a book like InDesign CS4 One-on-One. I could not be more proud of David Futato and the rest of my team for having created such a beautiful…

• CS4 Videos @ lynda.com

  • Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008, 03:26 PDT (15 October 2008)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  My goodness. CS4 appears to have shipped. Here in the dekeCave–where we keep the dekeCopter and the darkly tinted dekeMobile–we have long heard rumblings that October 15 would be the day. But we also heard that October 23 might be…

• Two CS4 Features

  • Wednesday, 1 Oct 2008, 00:37 PDT (1 October 2008)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  I’m am slowly in pursuit of aggregating what videos I can from the various online sources, all in the name of getting you educated.
  The players in this video: Me, of course. That voice, right at the beginning of the…

• Vegas + dekePod = magic, baby!

  • Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008, 01:32 PDT (3 September 2008)
  • By: deke, dekeOnline - Illustrator

  Hello friends of dekeOnline. It’s 2am and I have to do a 4-hour presentation tomorrow. If that sounds like complaining, perish the thought. I can’t wait for my afternoon session. But I have to get a little sleep at some…