Watch a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects from graphics guru Deke McClelland.
Overview
Syllabus
1000 Years of Deke’s Techniques
- 1000 Years of Deke’s Techniques
- 669 Customizing a QR code in Photoshop
- 670 Adding more color to your QR code
- 671 Coffer illusion and the hidden circles
- 672 Filling out the hidden circles illusion
- 673 Shading the panels in a Coffer illusion
- 674 Drawing a classic “café wall” illusion
- 675 Skewing your crazy café walls in Illustrator
- 676 Creating a “magical checkers” illusion
- 677 Swapping magical checkers for dots
- 678 Reversing the direction of your illusion
- 679 Decorating your illusion
- 680 Adding more and more gizmos
- 681 Connecting the gizmos wirelessly
- 682 Drawing a Wi-Fi symbol in Illustrator
- 683 Drawing the official Bluetooth logo
- 684 Introducing Trajan Color Concept
- 685 Trajan Color Concept in Illustrator CC
- 686 Using stylistic sets in Photoshop CC
- 687 Using stylistic sets in Illustrator CC
- 688 Creating gradient molecules in Photoshop
- 689 Sharpening your very soft molecules
- 690 Editing your smart-filtered molecules
- 691 Exploring regular molecule patterns
- 692 Blending opposing rows of colorful molecules
- 693 Sharpening molecules with High Pass
- 694 Creating shimmering cells in Illustrator
- 695 Turning regular hexagons into organic cells
- 696 Enhancing your organic cells in Photoshop
- 697 Making dead cells spring to life
- 698 Creating letters with accordion extrusions
- 699 Combining object blends with skews
- 700 Making one object blend cut through another
- 701 Making one object blend slice across another
- 702 Object blends and dynamic distortions in Illustrator
- 703 Another random distortion: Roughen
- 704 Dynamic warp distortions: Fish and Twist
- 705 Adding a dynamic background, part 1
- 706 Adding a dynamic background, part 2
- 707 “Quieting down” an overly elaborate design
- 708 The Marvel disintegration effect
- 709 Building up more flakes and ashes
- 710 Enhancing and masking your disintegration
- 711 Turning your flakes into dull, dead ash
- 712 Jogging your memory with the Note tool
- 713 Contour mapping with Distort > Displace
- 714 Contour map + gradient map
- 715 Contour map + arbitrary map
- 716 Riffing on a contour map in Photoshop
- 717 Smoothing out jagged contour lines
- 718 Contour mapping for cash in Photoshop
- 719 Infusing an image with the color of money
- 720 Simulating an adjustment layer in Illustrator
- 721 Drawing a stylish computer key
- 722 Spelling a word in computer keys
- 723 Creating a faux hedcut in Photoshop
- 724 Tracing outlines around your hedcut
- 725 Creating a full-color hedcut effect
- 726 Creating an E.T. moon in Photoshop
- 727 Adding a forest of trees for your E.T. moon
- 728 Combining the best of E.T. and Jurassic Park
- 729 Tracing vectors with a universal glow
- 730 Creative uses for Content-Aware Fill
- 731 Creating a porthole to a far-away galaxy
- 732 Enhancing your crazy space porthole
- 733 Creating a galaxy of rushing stars
- 734 Using the Puppet Warp tool in Illustrator CC
- 735 Illustrator Puppet Warp tips and tricks
- 736 Puppet-Warping very complicated selections
- 737 Shift-P for Puppet Warp!
- 738 Introducing the Pentagon Patterns
- 739 Types 1–5: The Reinhardt pentagons
- 740 Types 6–8: The Kershner pentagons
- 741 Type 10: The James pentagon
- 742 Types 9, 11, 12, and 13: The Rice pentagons
- 743 Type 14: The Stein pentagon
- 744 Creating a type 15 pentagon in Illustrator
- 745 Tessellating your type 15 pentagon
- 746 Expressing pentagons as proper tile patterns
- 747 Applying and modifying a tile pattern
- 748 Combining complementary patterns
- 749 Combining a tile pattern with a photograph
- 750 Adjusting a tile pattern to fit its photo
- 751 Creating a creepy Candy Keeper in Photoshop
- 752 Enhancing the Candy Keeper text
- 753 Creating an old monster movie poster
- 754 Adding a monochrome halftone effect
- 755 Enhancing a special word, such as “Haunted”
- 756 Cheating letters into an ancient border
- 757 Naming an adjustment layer as you create it
- 758 Under the sea in strict monochrome
- 759 Backscatter and split toning
- 760 Sampling any color outside Photoshop
- 761 Designing a vector-based logo in Photoshop
- 762 Free-transforming shape layers
- 763 Adding a photo element to your vector logo
- 764 High-resolution snowflakes in Photoshop
- 765 Enhancing your big, juicy snowflakes
- 766 Adding a snowflake bokeh “on the lens”
- 767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 2019
- 768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern
- 769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns
- 770 Coloring your mandala pattern
- 771 The final full-color mandala
- 772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode
- 773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode
- 774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 2019
- 775 Applying a global edit from the control panel
- 776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 2019
- 777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines
- 778 Freeform gradient limitations
- 779 Crop and develop a great white shark
- 780 Sharpening your great white shark
- 781 Low vibrance and high saturation
- 782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness
- 783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop
- 784 Recording an action to play all actions
- 785 Draw something, color the outlines
- 786 Combining multiple works of line art
- 787 Group your line art, clip to the group
- 788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop
- 789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 2019
- 790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop
- 791 The White Walker begins
- 792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop
- 793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin
- 794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows
- 795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop
- 796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes
- 797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils
- 798 Adding a cold and gloomy background
- 799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes
- 800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option
- 801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask
- 802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw
- 803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop
- 804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream
- 805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters
- 806 Combining distortions with blend modes
- 807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space
- 808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern
- 809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator
- 810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator
- 811 Making one pattern fade into another
- 812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer
- 813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator
- 814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers
- 815 Aligning your many gobstoppers
- 816 Blending line textures in Illustrator
- 817 Combining object blends with a pattern
- 818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects
- 819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern
- 820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator
- 821 Positioning the tips of your arrows
- 822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern
- 823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair
- 824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye
- 825 Adding windows to the houses pattern
- 826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern
- 827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels
- 828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern
- 829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels
- 830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels
- 831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends
- 832 The downside of using blends in patterns
- 833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator
- 834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients
- 835 Painting paths with opposing gradients
- 836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator
- 837 Drawing an impossible hex object
- 838 Creating impossible latticework
- 839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch
- 840 Painting a watercolor wash background
- 841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró
- 842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop
- 843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size
- 844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?
- 845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene
- 846 Painting a Rorschach background
- 848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?
- 847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop
- 849 Hand turkey 2019
- 850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad
- 851 Drawing a highly articulated hand
- 852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand
- 853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails
- 854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey
- 855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers
- 856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?
- 857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad
- 858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 2
- 859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 3
- 860 Using an iPad as a Sidecar drawing tablet
- 861 Introducing Adobe Fresco for the iPad
- 862 Adobe Fresco paints halftone patterns
- 863 Live brushes in Adobe Fresco
- 864 Using oil brushes in Adobe Fresco
- 865 Masking layers in Adobe Fresco
- 866 Repurposing and inverting masks
- 867 Vector brushes in Adobe Fresco
- 868 Opening Fresco art in Photoshop
- 869 Customizing the Auto Color command
- 870 Camera Raw 12: Panoramas with fill edges
- 871 Developing your panorama in Camera Raw
- 872 Healing with Clone Source plus Diffusion
- 873 The improved Simplify command in Illustrator 2020
- 874 Filling in any post-Simplify gaps
- 875 Posterizing colors, in the style of "Hair"
- 876 Recoloring art with the Paint Bucket tool
- 878 Adjusting your poster art dynamically
- 877 Posterizing colors nondestructively
- 879 Hiding the Filmstrip in Camera Raw
- 880 Making an awful photograph awesome
- 881 What if Rembrandt had painted sea lions?
- 882 Recolor a freeform gradient in Illustrator
- 883 Recoloring a gradient using a color group
- 884 Faking a GoPro over-under shot
- 885 Developing your over-under in Camera Raw
- 886 Drawing a 3D metal star in Illustrator
- 887 Rendering the 3D star in heavy metal
- 888 Creating a Wonder Woman 1984 poster effect
- 889 Creating the Wonder Woman displacement map
- 890 Masking your Wonder Woman
- 891 Creating a metadata template in Bridge
- 892 Streamlining a multi-use metadata template
- 893 The Photoshop 2020 freeform Warp enhancements
- 894 Applying a freeform Warp to a Smart Object
- 895 Rescuing a frame from a GoPro movie
- 896 Filling gaps with Content-Aware Fill
- 897 Two images are better than one
- 898 Blending images with a hand-drawn vignette
- 899 Creating a photographic painting
- 900 Drawing a gradient sphere as a 2D shape
- 901 Turning a sphere into a colorful pool ball
- 902 Changing a pool ball from solid to stripes
- 903 Rotate versus Transform Each in Illustrator
- 904 Recoloring your pool balls
- 905 Drawing a pool cue in Illustrator
- 906 Rotating with precision accuracy
- 907 Repeating a face so it shares a common eye
- 908 Continuous rainbow faces in Photoshop
- 909 Masking in the natural colors of the lips
- 910 Flipping a face to create new identities
- 911 Hand painting a symmetrical layer mask
- 912 Two ways to colorize with gradients
- 913 Two ways to mask gradient effects
- 914 Lantern tile: Type 1, onion
- 915 Lantern tile: Type 2, traditional
- 916 Lantern tile: Type 3, scallop
- 917 Quickly change the number of steps in Illustrator
- 918 Creating a blend inside a blend
- 919 Reversing the stacking order in Illustrator
- 920 Turning a blend into a repeating pattern
- 921 Recoloring a blended pattern
- 922 Precisely sizing any polygon in Illustrator
- 923 Creating a beveled, equilateral triangle
- 924 Turning a triangle into a Mercedes star
- 925 Adding a ring around the Mercedes star
- 926 Precisely sizing stars in Illustrator
- 927 Let's review that star technique
- 928 Creating real artwork with basic shapes
- 929 Making a face of triangles in Illustrator
- 930 Painting with gradients and translucency
- 931 More advanced gradients in Illustrator
- 932 Combining translucent vectors with a photo
- 933 Using the dynamic Free Distort filter
- 934 Combining dynamic effects in Illustrator
- 935 Creating a Halloween cat’s eye in Illustrator
- 936 Combining multiple gradient fills and effects
- 937 Tracing a photo with primitives in Illustrator
- 938 Halftone pattern and Zig Zag in Illustrator
- 939 Adding dynamic highlights to your cat’s eye
- 940 Blending reptile-like scales in Illustrator
- 941 Shading to your cat’s eye in Illustrator
- 942 Shading with variable-width strokes
- 943 Turning your cat’s eye into a dragon’s eye
- 944 Clearing the Photoshop Home screen
- 945 Hiding a single Home screen thumbnail
- 946 Clearing the Illustrator Home screen
- 947 A new way to unlock stuff in Illustrator
- 948 Another way to unlock stuff in Illustrator
- 949 The new Line tool in Photoshop 2021
- 950 Fixing a broken candy cane pattern
- 951 Creating a candy cane rhinoceros in Photoshop
- 952 Warping a pattern around an object
- 953 Adding some rippling, reflective ice shadows
- 954 Introducing Illustrator on the iPad
- 955 Illustrator on the iPad: The drawing tools
- 956 Ilustrator on the iPad: The Blob Brush
- 957 Illustrator on the iPad: The Pen
- 958 Illustrator on the iPad: Gradients and repeats
- 959 Color grading in Camera Raw
- 960 Color grading tips and tricks
- 961 Color grading: Blending and balance
- 962 New ways to scale type in Illustrator
- 963 Camera Matching profiles in Camera Raw/Lightroom
- 964 Combining the best of JPEG and raw
- 965 Smoothing out raw detail to match JPEG
- 966 Drawing arrows in Photoshop 2021
- 967 Troubleshooting Photoshop’s Line tool
- 968 Blending vectors with a pixel-based photograph
- 969 Curving a vector-based line segment in Photoshop
- 970 Aligning to point type in Illustrator
- 971 Aligning to area type in Illustrator
- 972 Snapping to letterforms in Illustrator
- 973 Snapping to a specific letterform in Illustrator
- 974 Tracing a specific letterform with a shape tool
- 975 Snapping to a glyph with the Pen tool
- 976 Rendering your name in playing cards
- 977 Precisely sizing a vector-based shape layer
- 978 Tracing an object with the Photoshop Pen tool
- 979 Enhancing a Photoshop path in Illustrator
- 980 Drawing a universal power symbol in Illustrator
- 981 Very large artboards in Adobe Illustrator
- 982 Creating a new very large artboard
- 983 Designing an animal logo in Illustrator
- 984 Illustrator Pen tool tricks
- 985 Dynamic round corners in Illustrator
- 986 Drawing organic curves with round corners
- 987 Reshaping paths that include round corners
- 988 Creating brushed metal in Illustrator
- 989 Creating rivets in Illustrator
- 990 Rotating a gradient inside an object blend
- 991 Peering thru binoculars in Photoshop
- 992 Adding colorful halos “inside” your binoculars
- 993 More extreme binocular aberrations
- 994 Hiding paths and shape handles in Photoshop
- 995 Drawing a subwoofer in Illustrator
- 996 Deep inside the subwoofer with Illustrator
- 997 Compound shapes vs. compound paths in Illustrator
- 998 Drawing a whole bunch of hex screws in Illustrator
- 999 "That’s all Folks!" in Photoshop
Taught by
Deke McClelland
