The Restorationist Janine Smith continues her foray into the world of video tutorials with this brilliantly effective, yet simple to achieve, restoration using the color channels. This easy to follow tutorial shows Janine removing a large patch of damage to an older photograph as she starts her restoration. Bookmark It Hide Sites
The Restorationist Janine Smith continues her foray into the world of video tutorials with this brilliantly effective, yet simple to achieve, restoration using the color channels. This easy to follow tutorial shows Janine removing a large patch of damage to an older photograph as she starts her restoration. Bookmark It Hide Sites
AJ Wood looks at a few handy little tweaks in Photoshop CS5
Vintage is the new thing..wait…vintage and new…oxymoron. Lets say Vintage is all the rage right now. I am seeing it from fashion to photography. It is really easy to achive a cool vintage tine to you images. Open an image, copy layer…and then burn the outside part of the image so the eye focuses...
Last time on TipSquirrel, on our ever-expanding journey into blend modes in Photoshop, we looked at the Luminosity blend mode. This mode allowed us to use the brightness values from one layer to make adjustments to the brightness of underlying layers, without creating unwanted shifts in the hue of the underlying layers. Today, we’ll...
Whether you produce your images for web or for print, at some point you’ll want to sharpen the images for output. Sharpening, as we’ve discussed in earlier tips, is a process in which the edges of detail are enhanced by making the dark side of the edge slightly darker, and the bright side slightly...
Last week we looked at some practical and very utilitarian ways to take advantage of Difference blend modes in Adobe Photoshop. Today, we’re going to take a 180 degree turn and look at some ways of using the Difference blend mode in some creative and artistic techniques. So let’s get in to the artistic...
Do you have some of those 70′s era color photo’s that just look tired? Here’s an easy way to paint a little life back into them using photo filters! For the purposes of this demonstration, I’ll use a photo of a bouquet of flowers my Nana got for her birthday in the 70′s. They...
No I’m not talking about going to your local chiropractor…..We are talking Lightroom, Silly! I will admit until a couple months ago a few weeks ago I knew there was Local Adjustments in Lightroom, but that was it. I had never clicked on that brush on the right hand side. When I did….I heard...
Up until the 1960′s, when resin coating became the norm and gave photo paper a smooth, shiny look and feel, photos were commonly developed using the silver gelatin dry plate process, caused by coating glass with an emulsion of silver salts, then letting it dry. One thing that identifies a vintage gelatin silver print...
After a weeks break TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman Creating a good mask is an essential part of retouching and compositing images, but the process of developing that mask doesn’t have to be painstaking or overly time consuming. You can get a very workable mask by starting with one of the color channels from...
A subtle overlay of color can really perk up a flat black & white image. A two color overlay, composed of (usually) black and another color, called Duotone, and three color, black and two other colors, or Tritone, add depth and tonality to an otherwise uninteresting composition. Photoshop gives us an easy way to...
Monday means Mike Hoffman. Here he continues his tour of Photoshop’s Blend Mode This week, we’ll continue our exploration of practical uses of the Overlay blending mode in Photoshop. Recall from our discussion last week that Overlay is a “contrast” blend mode, and we will be using it in today’s examples to sharpen images....
Welcome back to Mike Hoffman for the latest in his Blend Mode series. Links to previous parts can be found at the bottom of this post. In earlier parts of this series, we’ve seen that Screen is the blending mode of glows and lightening, and Multiply is the blending mode of shadows and...
By Mike Hoffman Thank you all for welcoming me back to TipSquirrel.com! This week, we’re going to continue our exploration of blend modes in Photoshop. In the past two installments, we reviewed layer blend modes, and looked at some examples of what the “Screen” and the “Multiply” blend modes can do for us. This...
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