Creative Differences
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 [More]
Painting With Photo Filters
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 [More]
Image alignment and analysis with Difference Blending
Way back when we started our journey through the dark and forbidding lands of Photoshop Blend Modes, I showed this chart, grouping the blend modes into some distinct categories: If you look closely, [More]
Local Adjustments in Lightroom
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 [More]
Striking Silver
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 [More]
Lightroom vs Adobe Bridge
It may come as a shock, but with the pending releases of Lightroom 3 and CS5 currently on the brain, folks still have time to debate whether to use Lightroom or Adobe Bridge.
Really? This is still a question? *grin* [More]
Refining Masks with Overlay Blending
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 [More]
A Duo Of Duotones
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 [More]
'Painting' A Better Black & White
Last week we looked at one way of improving a grayscale image by bring back, and tweaking, color channels. This week, we’ll enliven a flat black and white image by “painting” in tones. This [More]
Photoshop Blend Modes – Part 6
The Overlay blend mode in Photoshop is typically used to enhance contrast, making the shadows darker and the highlights brighter. Last week, we looked at a method for using the High Pass Filter in [More]
Upscaling Grayscale
Although it’s eminently preferable to scan all your old photos in color, sometimes we don’t have the luxury of that choice. Sometimes we only have access to grayscale scans of photos, for [More]
Photoshop Blend Modes Part 5
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 [More]
Custom Black & White in Lightroom
Welcome back photographer Andie Smith I LOVE LOVE LOVE black and white images. When I was in school, we shot with black and white film (Ilford for me please!) and processed our images in the darkroom [More]
No Flipping Photoshop
Without a doubt, the hardest damage to restore in a photo is damage to people, especially faces. It’s also, without a doubt this area that is also the most important. No matter how devastating [More]
Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 4
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 [More]
