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Deke McClelland

Photoshop expert, trainer, author.

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Electronic publishing pioneer Deke McClelland is a popular lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics and design. He has hosted the interactive "Video Workshop" CD that shipped with Photoshop Versions 7, CS, and CS2, as well as hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for industry leaders lynda.com and Total Training. In addition to his video work, Deke has written 84 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print.

One of the most award-winning writers in the technology market, Deke received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book in 1989. Since then, he has garnered more than 20 honors, including seven independent citations from the Computer Press Association. In 2002, he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

In 2004 Deke created the One-on-One™ book series, which uses video, step-by-step exercises, and hundreds of full-color illustrations to provide readers with the closest thing possible to private instruction from a recognized expert. These ambitious, self-paced guides include the bestselling Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One and Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One. Late in 2006 Deke teamed up with vanguard online training company lynda.com to bring the One-on-One training strategy to a line of video products, beginning with Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview, the first series available for the public beta of Photoshop CS3. In addition to the full 20-plus hour Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, his plans include Illustrator One-on-One and InDesign One-on-One. Among Deke's current lynda.com videos are Photoshop Elements 5 Essentials and the #1 ranked Photoshop CS2 Channels and Masks (available for immediate viewing at www.lynda.com/deke).

Deke is an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, and a regular speaker for the Photoshop Fling cruise seminars. Deke lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two super-powered boys.

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dekeBytes: Yes, I Dare to Make a Photoshop CS4 Wish List

In 2002, I wrote a preview of Adobe Photoshop 7 for a popular computer magazine. Although I praised the program for its file browser, expanded Brushes palette, and healing tools, I lamented its lack of ambition in the parametric department.... read more

dekeBytes: Suddenly, Photoshop's Brightness/Contrast Does Not Suck

One of the more surprising new features of Photoshop CS3 is the Brightness/Contrast command, which has gone from being one of the worst features to one that is actually quite useful. I'll show you what I mean with this example.... read more

dekeBytes: Introduction to a Bridge 2 (Far)

Bridge CS3 (already in dot-release, 2.1, as I write this) is the new version of the Adobe Bridge that ships with Photoshop CS3, the other individual CS3 applications, and the six, count them six, skews of Creative Suite 3. While... read more

Martini Hour 080, In Which Deke and Colleen Each Claim Kindred Connection with Our Guest Terri Stone

August 25 2010

There is nothing better than sitting back under the flattering lights of the dekeLounge with a charming guest who can keep up with me and Deke. This week the intrepid and hilarious Terri Stone, Editor-in-Chief of CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine stops by the lounge to entertain and inspire us. Inspire… read more

Five Minutes to the Doodle Revolution

August 25 2010

If you missed our Martini Hour Doodle Revolution episode with Sunni Brown (or more likely, you haven't found 37-odd free minutes to listen to it) check out this five-minute take on Sunni's attempts to overthrow the anti-doodle establishment. Read more »  read more

Martini Hour 79, In Which We Realize Our Unbridled Optimism Can Only Be Captured in Panorama

August 19 2010

Or something like that. You see this episode begins with a peek into the author/editor process. How, in Amsterdam, under the influence of a small amount of Jenver, the glowing light of Deke's iPhone, and a hefty dose of denial, we hatched a plan about how it would be great… read more

Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced Goes Live

August 16 2010

Some of you have been asking when my Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced series is coming out. And I was all prepared to tell you this Friday. But lynda.com, being the incredible juggernaut of a video publisher that they are, began releasing it today. Chapters 13 thru 18 are up this… read more

Martini Hour 078, In Which We Consider Dropping the "i" In Honor Of Our Guest

August 12 2010

When the awesome fashion photographer, Photoshop expert, and bestselling author Martin Evening honored us by stopping by the dekeLounge, we seriously considered dropping the i from Martini in his honor. Instead, we decided to take advantage of having his considerable expertise and quiz him on what he thought was significant for… read more

The Most Recent Martini Hour Inspired Me to Doodle, Only in a Bad Way (If You're a Robot)

August 06 2010

Did you ever do that thing where you blew off two weeks of college/university, and then you struggled to figure out a super-nonchalant/casual pathway back into the classroom? All the while thinking the professor was going to grind your butt to beanmeal? And then once you had the balls to… read more

The Most Recent Martini Hour Inspired Me to Doodle, Only in a Bad Way (If You're a Robot)

August 06 2010

Did you ever do that thing where you blew off two weeks of college/university, and then you struggled to figure out a super-nonchalant/casual pathway back into the classroom? All the while thinking the professor was going to grind your butt to beanmeal? And then once you had the balls to… read more

Martini Hour 077, In Which Deke Is Surrounded by Charming, If Foul-Mouthed, Women Who Defend Your Right to Doodle

August 05 2010

My dear dekeArtistas, did you get in trouble for doodling when you were supposed to be paying attention in school? (I didn't, because I was all about the words, baby. But I might know a creature or two who did.) Good friend of the dekeLounge, and recently published authoress Sunni… read more

Martini Hour 077, In Which Deke Is Surrounded by Charming, If Foul-Mouthed, Women Who Defend Your Right to Doodle

August 05 2010

My dear dekeArtistas, did you get in trouble for doodling when you were supposed to be paying attention in school? (I didn't, because I was all about the words, baby. But I might know a creature or two who did.) Good friend of the dekeLounge, and recently published authoress Sunni… read more

Uh, Will There Be Any Deke at deke.com?

August 03 2010

Holy yoiks, I've been remiss in my blogging duties. In fact (and it gives me no pleasure to confess this), I've been absent for more than two weeks. And from my own site! I mean, why even have a blog site if you're not going to blog? Fortunately, I've been… read more

Uh, Will There Be Any Deke at deke.com?

August 03 2010

Holy yoiks, I've been remiss in my blogging duties. In fact (and it gives me no pleasure to confess this), I've been absent for more than two weeks. And from my own site! I mean, why even have a blog site if you're not going to blog? Fortunately, I've been… read more

Martini Hour 076, In Which the Luminance Contrast Controls the Luminance Contrast

July 29 2010

Yes, of course, we've covered Adobe Camera Raw in the dekeLounge before, but this episode was inspired by the particular passage in the Adobe Help file gave its name to the title of this Martini Hour. Sure, it's succinct and...logical...I guess. But those of you who are fans of the… read more

Martini Hour 076, In Which the Luminance Contrast Controls the Luminance Contrast

July 29 2010

Yes, of course, we've covered Adobe Camera Raw in the dekeLounge before, but this episode was inspired by the particular passage in the Adobe Help file gave its name to the title of this Martini Hour. Sure, it's succinct and...logical...I guess. But those of you who are fans of the… read more

Martini Hour 075, In Which the Storm and the Sun Collide with Graphic Results

July 23 2010

That is the gamestorm and the Sunni Brown. (See what I did there with the visual communication.) This week, Deke and I welcome one of my newly fledged authors whose book,  Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, hit the shelves this with a big splash very week  (As… read more

Martini Hour 075, In Which the Storm and the Sun Collide with Graphic Results

July 23 2010

That is the gamestorm and the Sunni Brown. (See what I did there with the visual communication.) This week, Deke and I welcome one of my newly fledged authors whose book,  Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, hit the shelves this with a big splash very week  (As… read more

Watching an Artist at Work, with Photoshop Auto-Align

July 22 2010

In this week's Martini Hour, you'll meet Graphic Recording Artist Extraordinaire, Sunni Brown, who also happens to have joined the ranks of book authors this week. More on that in a minute, but in the meantime, during our conversation, I was reminded that I took this "video" of Sunni graphically… read more

Watching an Artist at Work, with Photoshop Auto-Align

July 22 2010

In this week's Martini Hour, you'll meet Graphic Recording Artist Extraordinaire, Sunni Brown, who also happens to have joined the ranks of book authors this week. More on that in a minute, but in the meantime, during our conversation, I was reminded that I took this "video" of Sunni graphically… read more

Martini Hour 074, In Which Deke Gets Rid of the Shnivels

July 15 2010

Yes, there comes a day where you have to stop obsessing about electrons and start obsessing about ink. If you're like us, printing is just one of those things that can make you very crazy very quickly. During the course of revamping the "Print and Output" chapter from Deke's new… read more

Martini Hour 074, In Which Deke Gets Rid of the Shnivels

July 15 2010

Yes, there comes a day where you have to stop obsessing about electrons and start obsessing about ink. If you're like us, printing is just one of those things that can make you very crazy very quickly. During the course of revamping the "Print and Output" chapter from Deke's new… read more

Martini Hour 073, In Which Colleen Experiences the Many Layer Effects of Deke

July 08 2010

It's a languid look at the mysteries of Layer Effects this week, dekeGuys and 'Dolls. This week's Martini Hour features simply me and my good buddy Deke taking an intreguing Dashell Hammit-flavored look at this unsung feature of Photoshop. Sure, at first, the Filters get all the flashy attention; they… read more

Martini Hour 073, In Which Colleen Experiences the Many Layer Effects of Deke

July 08 2010

It's a languid look at the mysteries of Layer Effects this week, dekeGuys and 'Dolls. This week's Martini Hour features simply me and my good buddy Deke taking an intreguing Dashell Hammit-flavored look at this unsung feature of Photoshop. Sure, at first, the Filters get all the flashy attention; they… read more

I Just Finished Recording All My Video Series "Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced"

July 07 2010

Tonight I finished recording the 228th screen-capture for my comprehensive course, "Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," the second installment in my cradle-to-grave Photoshop CS5 video series for the vast and unparalleled lynda.com Online Training Library. I'm told I submitted more than 34 hours, unedited. For the record, that brings the total… read more

I Just Finished Recording All My Video Series "Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced"

July 07 2010

Tonight I finished recording the 228th screen-capture for my comprehensive course, "Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," the second installment in my cradle-to-grave Photoshop CS5 video series for the vast and unparalleled lynda.com Online Training Library. I'm told I submitted more than 34 hours, unedited. For the record, that brings the total… read more

Gosh, This Is an Awesome Country

July 05 2010

Let me begin with an obligatory quote stolen from Wikipedia: Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to… read more

Gosh, This Is an Awesome Country

July 05 2010

Let me begin with an obligatory quote stolen from Wikipedia: Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to… read more

Martini Hour 072, In Which Deke Gets to Geek Out with a Kindred Spirit

July 01 2010

This week we meet with a guy who can speak Deke. Stu Maschwitz of Red Giant Software joins us to talk about his new product, Magic Bullet PhotoLooks. Despite the cumbersome name, this software---which you can run either as a standalone product or as a Photoshop plug-in---takes technology originally designed… read more

Remember the Sun?

June 29 2010

After a long day of recording Martini Hours, my sidekick Colleen and I were sitting on the balcony of my hotel room in Pacifica, California, watching the sunset. In fact, here's that very sunset, as captured with my Olympus E-30. And we noticed a few things: Read more »  read more

Martini Hour 071, In Which We Celebrate Summer with Illustrator-based Sno-cones and More More Mordy

June 24 2010

Mordy's visit last week to discuss Illustrator CS5 was so refreshing, that we decided to keep the Summer vibe going and invite him back again this week. And what does he bring? Vector-based sno-cones. Yes, it's another great Illustrator show with Mordy and Deke diving deep into the summer and… read more

Photoshop CS5 One-on-One Goes Off to the Printer

June 22 2010

Back in Amsterdam, last December, Deke and I hatched an ambitious plan: to revamp the Adobe Photoshop One-on-One book for CS5, no holds barred. We've had moments since then where we wondered if we'd gotten ourselves in a little more deeply than we'd intended. (That Jenever, it'll getcha!) But tonight… read more

Photoshop CS5 One-on-One Off to the Printer

June 22 2010

Back in Amsterdam, last December, Deke and I hatched a very ambitious plan--to altogether revamp the Photoshop One-on-One book for CS5. We've had moments since then where we wondered if we'd gotten ourselves in a little more deeply than we'd intended (that Jenever, it'll getcha). But tonight that book went… read more

Photoshop CS5 One-on-One Off to the Printer

June 22 2010

Back in Amsterdam, last December, Deke and I hatched a very ambitious plan--to altogether revamp the Photoshop One-on-One book for CS5. We've had moments since then where we wondered if we'd gotten ourselves in a little more deeply than we'd intended (that Jenever, it'll getcha). But tonight that book went… read more

Why I've Been So Absent (A Father's Day Post)

June 20 2010

A few of you may have noticed that I've been inexplicably missing the last few days. In part, that's because my sensational team and I have been working late into the night getting Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One (the book) to press. It boasts a revamped outline, gobs of new sample… read more

Martini Hour 070, In Which Colleen Gets Schooled in Illustrator CS5 by the Benevolent Masters

June 17 2010

Ah...feels so good to be in the dekeLounge, knowing book the first book in Deke's CS5  One-on-One series is going off to the printer Monday. (It will feel even better Monday.) But now that Photoshop is done, it's time to turn our attention to Illustrator. And what better way to… read more

Martini Hour 069, In Which Deke Recognizes the iPhone 4 and Before (b4)

June 10 2010

Call it the iMartini Hour. You know we like to sit around, shoes off, sipping cocktails with our our good friends Chris Breen and Ben Long, talking about things that start with with a lowercase i. In case you hadn't heard, there's this device called the iPhone. Some guy (Steve...… read more

The Much Ballyhooed All-Adobe Workflow

December 18 2007

For most of the 1990s, the design market was shared by three programs: page-layout software QuarkXPress, image editor Adobe Photoshop, and drawing application Macromedia FreeHand. (Some shops preferred Illustrator, but FreeHand tended to be the more popular choice of page... read more

Black and White Options in Photoshop CS3

July 25 2007

In a world that is saturated with color, there is something about the elegant simplicity of black-and-white imagery that gets right to the heart of things. The removal of color allows our eyes and minds to focus on subtleties of... read more

My new slot on NAPP TV

July 04 2007

A few weeks ago, Scott Kelby, editor of Photoshop User magazine, invited me to submit a 5-minute technique for his weekly NAPP TV podcast (formerly Photoshop TV). It was a tough decision: Say "yes" and become a regular adjunct on... read more

dekeBytes: Palettes Aren't Panels (Vampires Aren't Zombies)

June 15 2007

With the release of its CS3 products, Adobe has once again ever so slightly shifted its official marketing and documentation language. The newest casualty? Palettes. Palettes no longer exist. The word "palettes" has been struck from the Adobe lexicon. Those... read more

dekeBytes: Photomerge Also No Longer Sucks

May 31 2007

Sorry I couldn't stop by last week, but I was busy fearlessly leading my crackerjack team in the final throes of getting the latest edition of my book, Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, off to the printer. (An excuse or a... read more

dekeBytes: Photomerge Also No Longer Sucks

May 31 2007

Sorry I couldn't stop by last week, but I was busy fearlessly leading my crackerjack team in the final throes of getting the latest edition of my book, Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, off to the printer. (An excuse or a... read more

dekeBytes: Go See My Video Blog

May 17 2007

Just wanted y'all to know: In addition to this here HTML version of dekeBytes, there's a new video version of dekeBytes as well. One's up now, and another goes up tomorrow. The movies are short, between 3 and 5 minutes,... read more

Fusing Two Images, Automatically!

May 10 2007

This new feature in Photoshop CS3 allows you to automatically align multiple images captured from a single vantage point, even if you shot them without a tripod. For instance, let's say we have these pictures of me and my wife,... read more

dekeBytes: Your Basic Smart Filter Mask

May 03 2007

Last week, I showed you how to use Smart Filters, a new feature in Photoshop CS3, to apply non-destructive filter effects to an image. Well, just as you can use layer masks with adjustment layers, you can apply masks... read more

dekeBytes: Welcome to Smart Filters

April 25 2007

Last week, I talked about how long I'd been waiting the arrival of Smart Filters. In this installment of dekeBytes, I'll give you a sense for how this new feature in Photoshop CS3 works by applying some detail sharpening... read more

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Podcast dekePod 018: Photoshop and the Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect
Publish Date: Jun. 11, 2009

Have you ever wanted to create an authentic looking Andy Warhol silkscreen? One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Warhol was known for his avant-garde paintings and screenprintings. Remember Warhol’s garishly colored celebrity images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, or Mao Zedong? In the studio he called The Factory, Warhol took an assembly-line approach to his high-contrast, silkscreens and produced art as a mass consumable, like a t-shirt or a pack of gum. It’s not surprising that his art is still popular today, and there are lots of one-click Warhol solutions. But if you want the real thing, join Deke McClelland in the final episode of this dekePod series, as he dissects Warhol’s process, and shows you how to use Photoshop to render your favorite portrait in bona-fide Warhol magnificence.

Podcast dekePod 017: Photoshop and the Visual Communications Makeover
Publish Date: May. 28, 2009

Signs are our friends. They help us observe the rules when we actually need to know the rules. We don’t all speak English, and tourism is a huge industry, so signs need to be language-independent. Which is why a vocabulary of immediately identifiable symbols is essential to every working artist and designer. So if symbols are so important, why are most such an indecipherable mess? Computer icons! Laundry instructions! Or Deke’s favorite: What you shouldn’t throw into an airplane toilet! Learn what works and what doesn’t in this laugh-out-loud episode of dekePod.

Podcast dekePod 016: Photoshopping the Great Masters
Publish Date: May. 14, 2009

They say you can’t be too rich or too thin. So how about getting rich by making others thin? Plenty of experienced retouchers make small but enviable fortunes shaving body fat off already lithe models. But rather than showing you a present-day example--honestly, how many underfed waifs do we need to see made skinnier?--Deke takes us back to a time when ideas of beauty were very different: the High Renaissance. In those times of mean circumstances and manual labor, body fat was a thing to be envied. How best to take a well-fed model rendered by the likes of Raphael and make her look like a modern work of art?

Podcast dekePod 015: Photoshop and the Lost Undersea Channel
Publish Date: Apr. 30, 2009

The ocean is a different world. Where else can you cavort with colorful animals a thousand feet or more above the Earth’s surface? But the romance of the sea comes at a price. Just as the watery depths rob our lungs of air, they rob our eyes of color. It’s not uncommon for an underwater photo to lack any information in the Red channel. Which is where coral, clown fish, and our very own skin tones live. Fortunately, Deke knows how to summon a Red channel back from the dead. Watch this dekePod and learn how to create underwater images that will satisfy your inner Jacques Cousteau.

Podcast dekePod 014: Photoshop vs. Adobe Bridge—Beware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!
Publish Date: Apr. 16, 2009

If you use Photoshop, then you probably browse your images with Adobe’s Bridge, which shows you thumbnails of your files. Good news: The Bridge lets you preview images without going to the trouble of opening them. Bad news: Those previews result in large cache files that eat up your hard drive. Worse yet, they permit others to track what you’ve been looking at. Even if you’ve long since destroyed the original file, the thumbnail persists! Learn how to protect yourself—and maybe even save your job.

Podcast dekePod Episode 013: The Mating Habits of the Pen Tool
Publish Date: Apr. 2, 2009

Adobe's landmark pen tool defined an industry. But to the uninitiated, its reliance on anchor points and control handles makes it as approachable as first-year algebra. Until you see it's nothing more than a mating ritual: The points are boys and the handles are girls. Once you get that, it all falls into place.

Podcast dekePod Episode 012: The Droplet Song (A Love Song to a Lost Feature in Photoshop)
Publish Date: Mar. 19, 2009

How best to encourage people to use an obscure but super-useful Photoshop feature? Rhyme, rhythm, and romance. Hence a music video that will make all your automation dreams come true. Give Deke five minutes of your time and he’ll set your world on fire.

Podcast dekePod Episode 011: Giving It Up For the Family
Publish Date: Dec. 9, 2008

Creative professionals are routinely roped into frivolous art projects for their families. You don't want to spend much time on them because who wants to do more of what you already do all day? But you don't want to do a lousy job because your cred's at stake. Oh and because, sure, you care about your family. In this episode of dekePod, Deke shows you how to create a spectacular birthday party invitation, with little effort, using a combination of found art and Photoshop.

Podcast dekePod Episode 010: The Instant Liquid Diet
Publish Date: Nov. 19, 2008

Ah, the holiday season, a time of expansion. Great physical expansion. Fatty, high-calories food is everywhere you turn. And so we grow. But not this year. In some distant future, when you review Thanksgiving 2008 in your photo album, you’ll look back on it as the first of many years that you actually lost weight. "Thank you dekePod," you'll say. Because in this episode, Deke teaches you how to transform fat into fit using the Liquify command—and with smooth, stretch mark-free results.

Podcast dekePod Episode 009: Sixties Space Siren
Publish Date: Nov. 5, 2008

If you’ve seen an episode of the original Star Trek, you’re no doubt familiar with the show’s main character, Captain Kirk, and his eternal blurry-eyed fascination with women. Every time he came in sight of a love interest, she appeared to him in diffused focus. In this episode of dekePod, Deke shows how you can achieve a nearly identical effect in Photoshop with such flattering results that you yourself could win the captain’s affections.

Podcast dekePod Episode 008: The Masks Palette
Publish Date: Oct. 22, 2008

Photoshop CS4 has been out one week. Hardly enough time for any of us to embrace it, let alone place our faith in it. And yet faith is precisely what one of the program's most highly touted features, The Masks palette, requires of you. Everything about it is promising; little about it makes sense. The palette that makes masks also wears one. In this special Halloween episode, we unmask the Masks palette. Will it be a bag of treats? Or a bundle of tricks? You'll find out, in dekePod.

Podcast dekePod Episode 007: Faking an HDR Portrait
Publish Date: Oct. 8, 2008

Think nothing can scare you? Enter dekePod, that thing that is not even slightly scary and yet, be honest, gives you the heebie jeebies. In this episode, Deke investigates how to simulate an extreme-detail HDR portrait -- which would otherwise require you to shoot multiple exposures of a person locked down in a body brace -- using flimflam and forgery. And a shrunken skull. These are the depths of scariness we go to. Here at dekePod.

Podcast dekePod Episode 006: Photoshop CS4, Buy or Die
Publish Date: Sep. 23, 2008

September 23 marks the announcement of Adobe's Creative Suite 4. And that means a new version of the company's flagship image editor, Photoshop. Coming just 18 months after its predecessor, is Photoshop CS4 any good? Enter dekePod, Deke McClelland's irreverent and uncensored video series. Day and date with Adobe's announcement, Deke provides a third-party, impartial, and highly opinionated review of the new software. Titled "Photoshop CS4: Buy or Die," this episode promises to show you all facets of the program—complete with commentary—without interrupting your busy day. In just five minutes, you'll know whether you want to upgrade or not. Either you buy or it dies, it's as simple as that.

Podcast dekePod Episode 005: Spirographs on Steroids
Publish Date: Sep. 3, 2008

In this episode, Deke makes the startling claim that Illustrator, a complex piece of software that costs hundreds of dollars, is better than an $8 Spirograph. Using nothing but half an ellipse and a few live, editable effects, Deke shows you how to construct something truly extraordinary. "Trust me on this one. Artist, non-artist, proficient with Illustrator, never even heard of the program -- I don't care if you live in Antarctica, you have no access to electricity, you haven't seen sunlight in 45 days -- oh my God, what are you, a penguin? -- you're gonna wanna watch this!"

Podcast dekePod Episode 004: Stretching a Photo in Illustrator
Publish Date: Aug. 20, 2008

Have you ever wanted to stretch a photo's background but leave the foreground unchanged? Or turn a horizontal photo into a vertical one without making a mess of it? You can't do it in Photoshop CS3, but you can in its companion program, Adobe Illustrator. Deke shows you how in a way that'll make you so happy, you'll think you're on drugs. And wait till you see the new look! Deke is dreamy.

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"If there's a better way to learn the power of Photoshop CS3 I surely don't know what it is...The way this author breaks the steps down and then leads us into the future is brilliant."
--Artie Alinikoff, myMac.com