Next Photoshop Evangelist
I’d like to thank everyone that gave their support to me during the recent Photoshop Evangelist Competition. Sadly we didn’t quite make it coming second by 110 votes to Nicole Dalesio. [More]
Diary
Creating Dashed and Dotted Lines in Photoshop
The more I play around with Photoshop CS6, the more I like all the great new capabilities that have been added to this amazing program. Did you know, that in Photoshop CS6, shape layers are a thing of the past, replaced in their entirety by vector layers? This is a tremendously powerful feature, which we will explore in detail over many tutorials in the future. For today, we’ll focus on a small new feature, but one which solves a big problem that has existed forever in Photoshop – how to create a dashed or dotted line. [More]
Type Tips for Photoshop CS6
Photoshop CS6 comes with a few type tricks up its sleeve, and if you find yourself working with type a lot in Photoshop, especially if you are mocking up print layouts or web pages, you're going to get a lot of mileage with these new features. Let's take a look. [More]
Gadget Show Live
Today's post (Tuesday 10th April 2011) come's 'live' from The Gadget Show Live where I'll be looking for some of the more interesting and unusual gadgets. I'll do my very best to limit my excitement to Photography and Graphic arts stuff, but no promises! [More]
Tip Ups – Come Join The Fun!
OK, so I made the phrase up by why just have a Tweet Up? What about our Facebook friends and those that read Tipsquirrel.com on RSS? Besides which, I like to think we’ll swap tips so the name has a kind of ring to it….. doesn’t it?
To register your interest send a quick email with the subject name of the TipUp you’re interested in and we’ll forward information to you as it arises. You can also find each event on Facebook. [More]
Photoshop’s Enhanced Filters in CS6 Beta
With Photoshop CS6, Adobe really integrated GPU acceleration into many of the filters, adding some great new ones along the way. The GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, is a powerhouse that lives on our graphics cards and allows Photoshop to perform amazing feats of pixel manipulation. [More]
Color Lookup Adjustments with Photoshop CS6 Beta
In Photoshop CS6 Beta, Adobe has given us an entirely new type of adjustment, complete with its own new adjustment layer category. Watch this video to learn about Color Lookup adjustments and how they can transform your image colors quickly, easily, and non-destructively. [More]
The Eyes Have It.. LR4 Brush presets
One of the things I have noticed since using the Lightroom 4 is that my adjustment brushes that I created for LR3 just don't give the same results as they used to. The reason for this is that the adjustment sliders have changed since Lightroom 3. The clarity brush is a perfect example for this, as the clarity slider is now twice as strong as it was in Lightroom 3. [More]
Photoshop Compositing with 3D (Part 2)
In this two part video tutorial, we look at creating a surreal scene with 3D and traditional 2D elements. In this second part, we add the 3D elements and explore ways of integrating the 2D and 3D parts into a unified whole. [More]
Photoshop Compositing with 3D (Part 1)
In this two part video tutorial, we look at creating a surreal scene with 3D and traditional 2D elements. In this first part, we set the scene by compositing various landscape elements together to provide the backdrop for our 3D model. [More]
Solids of Revolution with Photoshop CS5 Extended
Photoshop CS5 Extended can create solids of revolution, but the technique is a little bit obscure, and requires wrestling with the Repousse interface. Watch this video to see how to create a revolved 3D solid, to render it with reflections, and to integrate it into a 2D background. [More]
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]
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]
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]
