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Top Tip Tuesday – Blend If

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Top Tip Tuesday – Graffiti

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Top Tip Tuesday – Making a Rainbow (and rain)

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October at TipSquirrel

It was another great month for TipSquirrel.com and I am, as always,grateful to everyone that contributed to the site. Keep visiting in November for all the regulars, plus we’ll be welcoming back Andie Smith, AJ Wood and Chad Perkins. We’ll also be welcoming photographer Richard Hales for his first post at TipSquirrel.com.   Richard...

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Top Tip Tuesday – Masking Layer Effects

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Tuesday Top Tip – Make A Layer From Layer Effects

Tuesday Top Tip – Make A Layer From Layer Effects

This week I am going to revisit one of my all time favourite tips in Photoshop. I first posted about this a while back before the website became the daily post thing it is now, so this time I’ll spend a little more time on it. Make A Layer From Layer Effects First off,...

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Simple Border Effects

Simple Border Effects

A question was raised this week for the easiest way to add a single pixel border inside an image, so that’s what I’m playing with for today’s post. First thing I’m going to do is grab the rectangle shape tool and choose to make a path Next I drag out a path where I...

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Magazine Wrap Around

Magazine Wrap Around

  When BBC Wildlife magazine came out I was intrigued by the cover. Everything was standard except that it looked like there was an added cover. I’m sure there is name for it. Anyhoo, on closer inspection, there wasn’t this extra bit, it was made to look like it.   I thought I’d give it a...

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TipSquirrel’s News

Next Week Guest Poster – Richard Harrington If you’re a tutorial addict like me then you’ll already know Richard, but for those not lucky enough to have come across him here’s a few links to get you started; Understanding Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop for Video Podcasts A whole host of Books Website Twitter  ...

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Top Tip Tuesday – Dotted Line

Top Tip Tuesday – Dotted Line

I’m never sure what to write about here, I’ve always maintained that I’m in no way a trainer but I do like to pass on the little snippets of goodness that I’ve picked up from the hours of tutorials and podcasts. Recently someone mentioned on twitter that Photoshop could do everything except dotted lines....

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Welcome To Photoshop

photoshop  (v.)”to edit an image using a computer program,” 1992, originally in ref. to Photoshop, a bitmap graphics editor trademarked and published by Adobe, released in 1990.” Dictionary.com  I don’t blame Adobe, far from it, their advertising and position in the market has led to their product becoming a verb, like Google, Hoover or Sellotape. Here’s...

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Tuesday Top Tip – Centre

Tuesday Top Tip – Centre

When you’re moving things around the screen there are going to be times, maybe lots of times, that you want various elements to be in the centre, or have centres lined up. Here’s a few ways to do it;  With the layer selected press Cmd (Ctrl)+T to enter free transform. In the centre of...

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To Crop or Not to Crop

To Crop or Not to Crop

Hello and welcome back to another Tuesday Top Tip, those little things in Photoshop that are sometimes over looked, yet can be so very handy. This week a quick look at the crop tool. There’s a option in there for a non destructive crop, here’s where; For those that are new to Photoshop, the...

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This Week on TipSquirrel

This Week on TipSquirrel

Hello and welcome to TipSquirrel.com. another great week. Thank you Simon, Janine and Ashu. Monday Simon Rudd moved to the new permanent Monday slot and bought us an incredible tutorial, creating bruises! To date it’s not anything I’d ever thought I needed but he shows us some realy neat techniques that can be used in...

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Its Easy to Change Colour in LAB.. No, Really.

Its Easy to Change Colour in LAB.. No, Really.

Here’s a nice and easy way to change a colour of an object, with no masking (Phew!), but before you get to excited I should warn you, I’ll be heading into the world of LAB. Don’t panic though, I’m not going to try and explain LAB nor how to use it to it’s full...

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