Folder Cruising in Adobe Bridge

December 6, 2011
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Back in Bridge CS4, Adobe introduced a cool navigation feature in Bridge called “Folder Cruising.” It’s very simple, but really effective, and in Bridge CS5 it received some slight tweaks that make it even easier to use. Here’s how it works. For this particular technique, you need to be able to see the Enhanced...

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November on TipSquirrel.com

December 5, 2011
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Stylized Black and White Photos with Topaz BW Effects  By Dan Moughamian This month I thought it would be fun to cover a Photoshop plugin that I discovered this summer, which has quickly become one of my favorites. Topaz BW Effects (from  Creating a Rubber Stamp Brush Preset in Photoshop Elements. By David...

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Stylized Black and White Photos with Topaz BW Effects

December 2, 2011
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This month I thought it would be fun to cover a Photoshop plugin that I discovered this summer, which has quickly become one of my favorites. Topaz BW Effects (from Topaz Labs) contains a wide range of creative presets that make it a snap to create some really interesting effects in a short amount...

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Creating a Rubber Stamp Brush Preset in Photoshop Elements.

December 1, 2011
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In this tutorial we’ll firstly be creating the effect of a slightly worn out rubber stamp. Once we’ve created our stamp, we’ll be converting it to a brush preset that can be used over and over again and at any size. We’ll also take a look at Elements’ Brush Dynamics panel, which allows us...

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Scaling 3D Materials in Photoshop CS5 Extended

November 29, 2011
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If you’ve created a 3D object with complex materials, you may have been disappointed with the appearance and shape of the features on your 3D object. In today’s video, learn how to tweak the scale and position of the 3D diffuse texture to correct any of these types of problems with you may encounter....

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Shadow and Highlights with Adobe Camera Raw

November 28, 2011
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In this follow-up to last week’s video, Rich Harrington teaches us how to fix clipped shadows, overblown highlights, and soft detail when working with photos shot under low lift conditions.

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Advanced Black and White in Photoshop

November 24, 2011
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This month’s tutorial is going to be an in-depth look at a black & white photograph that was used in one of my tutorials on black & white conversion earlier this year. I recently showed this image at Beacon Camera Club, where I was a guest speaker, and they were very interested in the process so...

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Photoshop 3D Materials Fun

November 22, 2011
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended has a wonderfully capable 3D environment. It isn’t high powered like some advanced 3D modeling software, but the capabilities are really good, and the learning curve is nowhere near as steep. In today’s tutorial, we’ll create some Christmas ornaments using some very simple Photoshop 3D capabilities. We’ll start with this...

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Mastering Adobe Camera Raw

November 18, 2011
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In this, made for TipSquirrel.com, video, Rich Harrington explores the power of Adobe Camera Raw. Here Rich has a real world example to work though with amazing outcomes.

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