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Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos – Book Review

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Full Title: Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos. 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3 and Camera Raw 6 The blurb on the back of this book reads “… is a concise, current and affordable full color guide…” and in that short phrase lies the beauty of this book. In this book, individual tips and...

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Lightroom 3 Series

Lightroom 3 Series

What is Lightroom? “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom delivers a complete workflow solution for the digital photographer – from importing, reviewing, organizing, and enhancing digital images to publishing photos, producing client presentations, creating web galleries, and outputting digital prints.  The user interface is highly intuitive and easy to learn, yet Lightroom has all the power and versatility you...

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Photoshop Nuts, Lightroom and Thanks

Hello, and thanks for joining us again here on TipSquirrel.com. It’s been awhile since I last did a “What’s happening at TipSquirrel” type post and with subtle changes due to start in September I thought this would be a good a time as any. The biggest change comes with the introduction of regular contributors,...

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The Navigation Panel

The Navigation Panel

I have seen a few tutorials about setting up work spaces in Photoshop, and they are split on whether to have the Navigation Palette open or not. There’s no doubt it should be there, but should you have it displayed as default, or maybe you prefer the Info palette or the Histogram? For me,...

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Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual : A Review

Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual : A Review

Lets get a few things straight from the outset so we know where we all stand. I’m a male, I like to take things apart and leave the bits scattered about the place, I put flat-pack wardrobes together with just a cursory glance at the assembly instructions and only touch a manual when I...

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July on TipSquirrel.com

July was a great month for TipSquirrel.com. Modesty prevents me from shouting too loudly, but suffice it to say that recognition for our hard word is very much appreciated. July was perhaps our most diverse month, but this is the way the site is moving as we strive to bring interesting and new content...

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Ten Things

I’ve been digitally restoring photographs for a long time, using Photoshop even longer, and I’ve picked up a few things over the years; simple tips on tools or workflow which have made my life a bit easier. I thought I’d share a few of them with you. I’m not putting them out there as...

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Looking At: SiteGrinder 3

Looking At: SiteGrinder 3

I had a few minutes free on Thursday, so I made a website. Ok, maybe not, but pretty close! Before I go any further, just allow me to say that I am not a web developer! In fact, it could be said, quite correctly, that I know just enough HTML to be dangerous. Anyway,...

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Photoshop or Lightroom, Which to Choose?

Photoshop or Lightroom, Which to Choose?

If you’re a photographer looking at upgrading your existing image editing software then you’ve never had so much choice, but which do you choose? The chances are you already have a favourite program so the obvious answer is to go for more of the same. But hang on, maybe now’s a great time to...

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Book Review: A Village Lost & Found

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In a bit of a break from the Photoshop related content usually found on TipSquirrel.com, but still in the realm of vintage photographs in which I’m known to dwell, I offer to you, today, a peek at a book which I am totally in love with! Are you always on the lookout for that...

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Book Review: A Village Lost & Found

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In a bit of a break from the Photoshop related content usually found on TipSquirrel.com, but still in the realm of vintage photographs in which I’m known to dwell, I offer to you, today, a peek at a book which I am totally in love with! Are you always on the lookout for that...

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Portrait Magic Pro Action Pack (Portrait Magic) – A Review

Portrait Magic Pro Action Pack (Portrait Magic) – A Review

Today we welcome back Rich Hales. After an excellent review of Lightroom 3 last week we thought we’d throw a copy of Portrait Magic Pro Action Pack from PhotographyBB and see what he makes of it PhotographyBB Portrait Magic Pro Action Pack (Portrait Magic) is an affordable skin softening product for Photoshop. Skin softening...

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Lightroom 3 – A Review

Lightroom 3 – A Review

After two public beta versions and months of waiting Lightroom 3 was officially released today. This release of Lightroom is somewhat unusual because the public beta version is pretty much the final product apart from one feature, which has already made an appearance in Photoshop CS5 (more of that later). Before Lightroom 2 was...

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Q & A With The Restorationist Janine Smith

This week, with the indulgence of the Honorable Mr. Squirrel and you, the reader, I’m going to attempt to answer a few questions. You see, I get asked these particular questions a lot, on a fairly regular basis, so maybe by answering them here I can save someone the time of writing the email....

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Q & A With The Restorationist Janine Smith

This week, with the indulgence of the Honorable Mr. Squirrel and you, the reader, I’m going to attempt to answer a few questions. You see, I get asked these particular questions a lot, on a fairly regular basis, so maybe by answering them here I can save someone the time of writing the email....

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