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.

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Create a ‘Splinter’ or “Shattered’ Portrait Effect in Photoshop

11/08/2015

Using selections and the arrow keys you can create this Splinter or Shattered effect in Photoshop in no time at all... and it's quite good fun too! [More]

Using Photoshop Selections to Add a Paint Splash Effect

08/08/2015

In this video I step a little out of my comfort zone and create something 'arty'. Using selection techniques I add a splash effect obtained from two water splash images. [More]

Photoshop Blur Gallery – Path Blur

26/07/2015

Blur, the nemesis of all photographers, but there’s times when adding it can really make a difference, in this tutorial I take a look at Path Blur, one of the latest additions to Photoshop's Filter menu; [More]

Photoshop Blur Gallery and Selections

21/07/2015

While recently writing an upcoming post for Fotolia about the Photoshop Blur Gallery and Iris Blur I made a selection and found the difference between selection, non selection and Smart Objects is [More]

Running Photoshop Levels, Curves and other Adjustments as a Smart Filter

17/07/2015

For as long as I can remember the advise to all Photoshop users is 'Never use the Levels and Curves from the menu, always use an Adjustment Layer.' This is good advise, working non destructively is the best plan, but with the update to Photoshop CC 2015 things have changed. [More]

Photoshop Displacement Maps

09/07/2015

When you want to add two or more images together quite often you’ll want to contort one to the shape of the other. This can be done with ease in Photoshop using the Displacement Map filter. Its been around for a long time and not a lots changed, but then, does it need to? [More]

Using Upright In Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw

24/06/2015

Often when we take images of structures we get this effect that makes it look like it’s falling backwards. In Lightroom 5 and later and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 8 and later there’s some settings that can really help. For this explanation I’ll take a look at the settings in Lightroom CC, its exactly the same in ACR however. [More]

Dude, Where’s My Save For Web?

17/06/2015

With the update from Photoshop CC 2014 to Photoshop CC 2015 Adobe make a lot of great changes, as always there were the headline grabbers but there were a few little tweaks that didn’t hit the [More]

What Is Photoshop’s Overscroll? And Why You Might Need It

08/06/2015

If you’ve been digging through Photoshop’s preferences you might have spotted a checkbox for Overscroll and wondered what it does, lets take a look; [More]

Synchronize Color Settings in Photoshop and Creative Cloud Apps

12/05/2015

If you've ever delved into the Photoshop menus you might have come across Color Settings in the Edit menu. There's a lot to alter here, but what's that down the bottom right corner telling me that my Colours are not synchronised? There doesn't seem to be any way to synchronise them either.... [More]