Simplify Your Lightroom Interface
One of my favorite features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the user interface. More specifically, the ability of the user interface to mold itself to the activities at hand, and its ability to get [More]
February 2012
Simulating Infrared Photos with Exposure 4 – Pt 1
Introduction Plugin makers Alien Skin Software recently released Exposure 4, a new upgrade to their flagship photo-styling product for Photoshop and Lightroom. Exposure 4 can apply a wide range of [More]
Lightening Up A Dark Image with Photoshop
In a perfect world your old photographs will always be out of a frame, or can be easily removed, in great shape and you’ll always have the most perfect equipment. Unfortunately, for most of us [More]
Mixer Brush Tips
With Photoshop CS5, Adobe brought us the Mixer Brush, which, along with the new Bristle Brushes, are perhaps the biggest makeover in the brush engine since version 7.0. In today’s video tip, you’ll learn a few basic techniques for setting up and using Mixer Brushes – including the often overlooked capability of loading your brush with multiple colors at one time. Happy painting! [More]
Our New Podcast: The Next Step
Those that follow TipSquirrel on Facebook or Twitter might know that for the last little while I’ve been saying how excited I am about a new TipSquirrel.com project. This week we take a huge step so I thought I’d let you in on what its all about, who the first guest will be and who’ll be the host; [More]
Filtering a Video Clip with Photoshop Extended
Photoshop's filters are pretty powerful (and certainly diverse). Knowing this, you may find yourself wanting to apply a filter to a video clip. This is very possible, but there's a specific workflow you must follow. [More]
Take Control of your Photoshop Brushes!
Are you tired of the hunt and peck method of finding your favorite Photoshop brushes? Learn to organize and save your favorite brushes with Preset Manager. With you could save an entire palette of brushes with color and opacity preset? You can, and today we'll see how using Tool Presets. [More]
Easy Moon or Planet with Photoshop
When making fantasy pictures its often useful to have a moon in a night sky, we can easily fake a nice convincing moon using a couple of Photoshop Filters. [More]
Solarisation in Photoshop or Lightroom
With all the whizz bang thrills that software such as Photoshop has given us, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s Photoshop that’s driven photographers to be creative. But that’s not [More]
Shooting Tethered in Lightroom
One of the fantastic things about Lightroom is the way it can streamline a photographer’s workflow. Lightroom allows the creating of presets and applying them over a complete shoot, even [More]
Camera Raw Workflow Tips
In today’s video tip, you won’t learn how to create or apply cool develop settings to make your images look amazing. What you will learn is how to set or change your Camera Raw workflow, how to understand when and why unusual things are happening in Camera Raw, and ways to gain speed and efficiency with your Camera Raw workflow [More]
WIN : Adobe Photoshop CS5 Crash Course DVD
Courtesy of our friends at NAPP UK we’ve got a great DVD to give away this month . Adobe Photoshop CS5 Crash Course by Matt Kloskowski This DVD isn’t just about what you’ll learn in [More]
