http://gurusunleashed.com Scouring the Web 24/7 for the best creative pro news and how-to so you don't have to. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:13:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://gurusunleashed.com/241827/illustrator-cs5-one-on-one-fundamentals-goes-live.php http://gurusunleashed.com/241827/illustrator-cs5-one-on-one-fundamentals-goes-live.php#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:15:22 +0000 deke 469 at http://www.deke.com
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:…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/241827/illustrator-cs5-one-on-one-fundamentals-goes-live.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/241475/indesign-cs4-trades-cs5-for-sex.php http://gurusunleashed.com/241475/indesign-cs4-trades-cs5-for-sex.php#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 02:15:12 +0000 deke 464 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/241475/indesign-cs4-trades-cs5-for-sex.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/240883/just-wrapped-up-photoshop-cs5-and-illustrator-cs5-one-on-one-fundamentals.php http://gurusunleashed.com/240883/just-wrapped-up-photoshop-cs5-and-illustrator-cs5-one-on-one-fundamentals.php#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 20:15:09 +0000 deke 455 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/240883/just-wrapped-up-photoshop-cs5-and-illustrator-cs5-one-on-one-fundamentals.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/146275/photoshop-cs4-smart-objects-is-complete.php http://gurusunleashed.com/146275/photoshop-cs4-smart-objects-is-complete.php#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:38:55 +0000 deke 354 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/146275/photoshop-cs4-smart-objects-is-complete.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/105153/illustrator-cs4-one-on-one-mastery-is-complete-and-advanced-is-out.php http://gurusunleashed.com/105153/illustrator-cs4-one-on-one-mastery-is-complete-and-advanced-is-out.php#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:12 +0000 deke 320 at http://www.deke.com
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.…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/105153/illustrator-cs4-one-on-one-mastery-is-complete-and-advanced-is-out.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/92717/gridiron-flow-finally-ships.php http://gurusunleashed.com/92717/gridiron-flow-finally-ships.php#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:58:19 +0000 deke 306 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/92717/gridiron-flow-finally-ships.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54721/the-mating-habits-of-the-pen-tool-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54721/the-mating-habits-of-the-pen-tool-2.php#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:53:35 +0000 deke 257 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54721/the-mating-habits-of-the-pen-tool-2.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54722/okay-you-illustrator-enthusiastz-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54722/okay-you-illustrator-enthusiastz-2.php#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:29:02 +0000 deke 200 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54722/okay-you-illustrator-enthusiastz-2.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54723/ho-ho-ho-free-training-for-the-holidays-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54723/ho-ho-ho-free-training-for-the-holidays-2.php#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000 deke 196 at http://www.deke.com
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?"…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54723/ho-ho-ho-free-training-for-the-holidays-2.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54748/bernhard-free-documents-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54748/bernhard-free-documents-2.php#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:00:00 +0000 deke 198 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54748/bernhard-free-documents-2.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54724/cs4-videos-lyndacom-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54724/cs4-videos-lyndacom-2.php#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:26:43 +0000 deke 160 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54724/cs4-videos-lyndacom-2.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54726/two-cs4-features-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54726/two-cs4-features-2.php#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:37:13 +0000 deke 149 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54726/two-cs4-features-2.php/feed 0 http://gurusunleashed.com/54729/vegas-dekepod-magic-baby-2.php http://gurusunleashed.com/54729/vegas-dekepod-magic-baby-2.php#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:32:49 +0000 deke 128 at http://www.deke.com
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…]]> http://gurusunleashed.com/54729/vegas-dekepod-magic-baby-2.php/feed 0