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.

When you review the holidays in your photo album, you’ll look back on it as the first of many years that you actually lost weight. In this episode, Deke teaches you how to transform fat into fit using the Liquify command.

If you’ve seen an episode of the original Star Trek, you know that whenever Captain Kirk came in sight of a love interest, she appeared to him in diffused focus. Deke shows you how to achieve "Kirk Vision".

In this episode, we unmask the Masks palette in Photoshop CS4. Will it be a bag of treats? Or a bundle of tricks? You'll find out, in dekePod.

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. These are the depths of scariness we go to.

Deke makes the startling claim that Illustrator is better than a Spirograph. Using nothing but half an ellipse and a few live, editable effects, Deke shows you how to construct something truly amazing.

Have you ever wanted to stretch a photo's background but leave the foreground unchanged? Deke shows you how in a way that'll make you so happy, you'll think you're on drugs.

Color models like RGB and CMYK are frightening enough on their own. But Deke says not to worry. RGB and CMYK are for machines. The Lab mode is for you.

In this episode, I pass along a technique of such magnitude, it will blow your mind. Because inasmuch as I every so often allude to another anatomical detail, the brain is what this video is all about.

We all know digital photos can be modified. But at least one facet of a digital photo, a variety of metadata called EXIF, is supposed to be secure. Learn how to cook your own EXIF in this episode of dekePod.

When was the last time one lone guy tried to capture 101 Photoshop tips in video? In just 5 minutes? Set to music?