Eric’s background in video editing with Adobe Premier led to his interest, and then obsession, with Photoshop. Starting TipSquirrel.com as a hobby he is proud to have gathered together and be a part of The Photoshop Nuts.
Known as only “TipSquirrel” for two years, Eric ‘went public’ when he was a finalist in The Next Adobe Photoshop Evangelist competition. He’s also been a finalist in Deke’s Techniques Photoshop Challenge.
While still taking on some freelance work, Eric has recently become a Lecturer at Peterborough’s Media and Journalism Centre where he enjoys sharing his knowledge as well as learning new skills. This realisation that he loves to teach has made Eric look at altering his career path.
In this video I create an Alphabetti Spaghetti, or Alphabet Soup tpy text effect using just one Filter and a few instances of Bevel and Emboss. The Action created in this tutorial can be downloaded by sharing this post via the buttons below the video
There’s been a lot of talk on the net about Adobe’s plans for Photoshop CC in June, but what does it actually mean? Lets take a wander around the net and see what’s being said by those in the know;
In this video I answer a reader question. Dan wanted to know how he could make sky writing in Photoshop.
Here I use dive into the Brush Pallet and add a few Layer Styles.
Thanks to our friends at Focal Press and to everyone that entered and helped spread the word!
Not to be confused with Layer Comps, Comp images are handy for a few reasons. If you use a stock image site like Fotolia you don’t necessarily want to pay for, and download full res images only for you not to use them. You may also want to put together a rough composite prior to shooting your own images, for inspiration or composition ideas.
Using a great plug in you can access thousands of images from within Photoshop at no cost, let me show you how;
In this video I take a quick look at where you can find some pretty handy Auto Correct buttons to get your image started. They’re not meant to be a one click solution, although sometimes they are, but a starting…
Selecting hair is one of the more challenging Photoshop skills if you want to start doing compositing. Photoshop Touch makes it very easy to do, on the go, using a couple of tools and a filter.
In this video I take the photo of Paige and extract her, fly away hair included, and put her on a grungy background.
Earlier in the week we posted about the release of Lightroom 5 Beta, then Mike revealed his three favourite new features, but, I thought you might like different points of view. So, here’s some bits and bobs from around the web, thank you to everyone that’s helped us get to grips with the new launch;
Lightroom 5 Beta became free to download as from this morning (Tuesday 16th April 2013). This beta offers a free, public preview of new features and tools that will be offered in the final release, expected later this year.
In this video I take a look at the ease of workflow using Adobe Photoshop Touch, Adobe Creative Cloud and Photoshop CS6.
Here I make a quick edit on the go and continue to work on it once I’ve returned to my desk.
In this video I take a look at a the Paste Special menu options. Sure, you can use Photoshop never knowing about them but when you do, you’ll be pleased they can be part of your workflow.
I’ll be taking a look at;
Paste Into
Paste Outside and
Paste In Place
Using a free to download template and this tutorial, Eric Renno describes how you can use Emboss to Photoshop yourself on a coin.
Adobe today (2nd April 2013) announced that there’s a significant update to Lightroom and to Adobe Camera RAW.
To update ACR via Photoshop go to Help > Updates.
There’s a whole swathe of lens support as well as new cameras and bug fixes. For a full list of what’s included head over to the Lightroom blog for a complete rundown.
Using our Contact Us page The Photoshop Nuts were asked if we could explain how to put text on a circle. This was covered a while back by Michael Hoffman in his post Working With Type On a Path as a written tutorial but I thought I’d create a video for those that prefer to learn that way too.
In the video, I also explain a technique for creating concentric circles and explain why you’d want to have two windows displaying one image.
In this video I take a flat, 2D image and transform it into a 3D image that a camera can pass into. If you’ve not worked with Vanishing Point before then you may wish to take a quick look at Multiple Planes with Photoshop (No 3D Layers). There’s two techniques here, one uses only Photoshop while the second uses Photoshop and After Effects.
