XOR Text Effect with Photoshop
XOR is a technical term that comes to us from computer science, but in Photoshop we see it all the time. It is the computer graphics effect that causes our cursor to always be a different color from [More]
Top Tip Tuesday
Adding Copyright Data in Photoshop – Automatically
Last week, we looked at a process for adding copyright metadata to your images using Adobe Bridge CS5, applying the data during the Bridge “Import Photos” process. Before that, we looked at [More]
Adding Copyright Data in Bridge
Last week on TipSquirrel, we looked at a process for adding copyright metadata to your images using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Today, we’ll cover a similar process for those of you who are using [More]
Adding Copyright Data in Lightroom
Over the next few Tuesdays, we’re going to undertake a project, one in which we take steps to protect our art. If you’re not adding copyright information to your images, you are leaving yourself [More]
Exporting from Bridge CS5 to Social Media sites
Back when Adobe engineers were developing CS4, the social network phenomenon was just hitting the mainstream, and there was no way to predict the popularity of these types of sites. However, in the [More]
Automatic Tourist Remover
Here’s a little tip that works with Photoshop Extended, versions CS3 or later, and Smart Objects. We’ve all been in public places trying to take a photograph, and people just keep walking by. [More]
Web Contact Sheets in Photoshop CS5
As I’ve noted, Photoshop version CS4 semi-retired the Contact Sheet, Picture Package and Web Contact Sheet plug-ins. Last week we looked at the modern method of creating contact sheets with [More]
Contact Sheets in Photoshop CS5
Back when Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 was launched, many people bemoaned the fact that an old favorite plug-in, Picture Package (Contact Sheet II) and its associated Web Gallery counterpart, had been [More]
Creative Stacking Diversions
Last week, I mentioned that I’d be covering my use of Stack Modes as an “automatic tourist remover.” However, this week, I endeavored to get out in the field and take some new photos [More]
Max Stacks with Photoshop
Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored the world of Smart Objects, and we’ll continue that exploration here today. However, one special note for today’s lesson – the Smart Object features [More]
Nested Smart Objects Part 2
In last week’s post on creating nested Smart Objects, we had created the image below, which was to serve as a celestial orb in our twilight desert scene. We built up this object from a basic [More]
Smart Objects, Smarter Filters
Smart Objects have given us a tremendous amount of power in Photoshop since version CS3, and it just keeps getting better. Today, we’re going to look at a non-destructive workflow that begins with [More]
Exposure Blending with Smart Objects
Last week, we looked at creating copies of Smart Objects in Photoshop, and we saw that regular copies are linked together in a special way such that when you update one Smart Object, you update ALL [More]
Picture Package with Smart Objects
When is a copy not a copy? When it is a copy of a Smart Object! In Photoshop, there are two very different ways to create copies of Smart Objects, and each of these has unique and special qualities [More]
Smart Objects, Raw Flexibility
Last week, we saw that Smart Object Layers are a special kind of layer within Photoshop, that actually encapsulate data so that you have a “document within a document,” and allow you access to [More]
