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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Receding Background

November 16, 2011
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Here’s a super simple way to add a little depth to an old image just by making certain elements stand out from the rest.

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Quicker Collections in Lightroom

November 15, 2011
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You may have used Quick Collections in Lightroom to create temporary sets of photos to organize your work. Here’s a tip to show you how to extend the Quick Collection feature to apply to any collection in Lightroom, making ALL your collections “quick.” Bookmark It Hide Sites

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Our Master Suite CS5.5 Winner

November 14, 2011
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A little while ago Adobe UK gave us a copy of Adobe Master Suite CS5.5 and we invited readers to enter through our Twitter, Facebook and  Google+ accounts. The response was awesome, so thank you to all that entered. We represented the three ways to enter as a percentage and the method of entry...

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Vintage Effect in Adobe Camera RAW

November 11, 2011
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Vintage photo effects are all the rage in photography at the moment. Often they created in mobile apps or in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I’m going to show you a simple vintage effect that can be applied to images inside Adobe Camera RAW. Aged and vintage effects tend to have a few things...

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Creating coloured backdrops in Lightroom

November 10, 2011
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One of the things about Lightroom that I love is that even though it is the little brother to the mighty Photoshop, it is still has a few tricks up its sleeve. I am always looking for ways to do ‘Photoshop’ things in Lightroom, there are 2 reasons for this.. 1) if I can...

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Photoshop’s Image Size Resampling Options

November 8, 2011
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When you resize images in Photoshop, you are adding or deleting pixels to your image. As the pixels are created or destroyed, how do you control the way Photoshop decides how to color the new pixels, or what to throw away? Photoshop has several methods (techies call them “algorithms”) that allow us to affect...

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Create a Horror Skin Effect With Photoshop

November 2, 2011
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Making horror art I often get asked how I get texture to show through flesh, its actually very simple and uses my favourite Photoshop tool, Layer Masks.

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Make a Mesh with Liquify to Speed Your Photoshop Workflow

November 1, 2011
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If you’re like me, you’ve been working on larger and larger files, and sometimes the Liquify command in Photoshop just can’t keep up with all those pixels. Fear not! Here’s a tip that allows you to Liquify smaller files, and transfer the changes you’ve made to a much larger resolution original.

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Fixing Blown-out Skies With Photoshop

October 29, 2011
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I must admit, when it comes to skies… I’m not above cheating. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a technique from my book Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS5. Be sure to also click here to download the hands on-practice files. The book contains hundreds of hands on files and hours of training videos. Here’s a...

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Halloween Photoshop Brushes and Tutorials

October 27, 2011
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Its that time of year again, so here’s a little rundown of some of the goodies we’ve posted here on TipSquirrel in previous years; Halloween Brushes from Janine Smith In this post Janine provided us with (29)  Photoshop brushes she made from (mostly) vintage & public domain images.     Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer...

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