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Articles by Eric Renno

About Eric Renno (435 Articles)
Eric’s background in video editing with Adobe Premier led to his interest, and then obsession, with Photoshop. Starting TipSquirrel.com as a hobby he is proud to have gathered together and be a part of The Photoshop Nuts. Known as only “TipSquirrel” for two years, Eric ‘went public’ when he was a finalist in The Next Adobe Photoshop Evangelist competition. He’s also been a finalist in Deke’s Techniques Photoshop Challenge. While still taking on some freelance work, Eric has recently become a Lecturer at Peterborough’s Media and Journalism Centre where he enjoys sharing his knowledge as well as learning new skills. This realisation that he loves to teach has made Eric look at altering his career path.

Focus on Photoshop Lightroom – A Review

15/07/2013

Photoshop Lightroom is, as any of the Nuts will tell you is an amazing piece of software both as a stand alone application or a compliment to Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Like all powerful software it can be a bit daunting when you first open it, so maybe a good book would help? [More]

Easily Manage the Size of Your Panorama with Photoshop CC

08/07/2013

When you’re putting together a panorama you might find that the final image is way bigger than you’d have hoped for. Adobe Camera RAW has always allowed you to reduce the size of your images before importing but with the new Photoshop CC we’re given even more control. [More]

Liquify Editable Text in Photoshop

01/07/2013

In this video I take a look at how recent updates to Photoshop allow us to fun the Liquify Filter on text. Because this is a Smart Object it means the text remains completely editable, but there’s more! Let me explain…. [More]

Line Drawing in a Photograph using Photoshop Clipping Masks

24/06/2013

In this video I answer a reader question that was asked of me through our Facebook Page. ”How”, they wondered, “can you make it look like a drawing’s being held up in front of a photograph?” Its actually very straight forward, and would be easier if you took a couple of photos at the same time. Me, I head over to Fotolia and get some images to help me out! If you recognise the tip on making the line drawing part of this tutorial it may be that you saw it when it was my entry to The Next Photoshop Evangelist competition. [More]

Adding A Fold To An Image In Photoshop Touch

10/06/2013

In this video I take a photo into Photoshop Touch to add a fold. You can do this in the stand alone app on your tablet but working with Creative Cloud gives it even more power! The image can be saved and reopened in Photoshop with all the layers in tact! [More]

Format Text In Photoshop With Kerning and Tracking

03/06/2013

Photoshop does a great job of formatting text and can be quite intuitive. Sometimes however you have to get stuck in a finesse it yourself. In this Photoshop tutorial video, I take a look at kerning and tracking before finishing off the text effect with a few Layer Styles and Blend Mode combinations. [More]

Adobe Creative Days

30/05/2013

Adobe are hosting Creative Days across Europe again this year where we’ll be able to; “Discover what’s coming next from Adobe, explore and get inspired together with industry pros and visionaries and get connected and exchange ideas and inspiration” [More]

Create An Alphabet Soup Text Effect In Photoshop

20/05/2013

In this video I create an Alphabetti Spaghetti, or Alphabet Soup tpy text effect using just one Filter and a few instances of Bevel and Emboss. The Action created in this tutorial can be downloaded by sharing this post via the buttons below the video [More]

A Photoshop CC Web Round Up

13/05/2013

There’s been a lot of talk on the net about Adobe’s plans for Photoshop CC in June, but what does it actually mean? Lets take a wander around the net and see what’s being said by those in the know; [More]

Using Free Stock Images for Comp Images in Photoshop

06/05/2013

Not to be confused with Layer Comps, Comp images are handy for a few reasons. If you use a stock image site like Fotolia you don’t necessarily want to pay for, and download full res images only for you not to use them. You may also want to put together a rough composite prior to shooting your own images, for inspiration or composition ideas. Using a great plug in you can access thousands of images from within Photoshop at no cost, let me show you how; [More]

Auto Correct in Photoshop and ACR

28/04/2013

In this video I take a quick look at where you can find some pretty handy Auto Correct buttons to get your image started. They’re not meant to be a one click solution, although sometimes they are, [More]
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