Photoshop Selection Power Tips
Over the past two weeks, we’ve looked at Selection Basics and Selection Techniques using Photoshop CS5, and we’ve developed a fundamental framework of understanding about selections, masks and [More]
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Selective Edits with Photoshop Adjustment Layer Masks
Here we take a look at a simple way to limit our Photoshop Image Adjustment Layers, to affect only certain regions of the photograph. We’ll do this using the built-in layer mask and the [More]
Blurring the Background with Adobe Camera Raw
For this tutorial we’ll take a look at how we can add a soft glow to the background of our raw images, using ACR’s local adjustment and masking tools, without softening the subject area. [More]
Creative Effects with Photoshop’s Liquify Filter – Pt 2
In the second instalment of the “fun with Liquify” series, Dan focuses on brush parameters and useful masking options to help ‘carve’ a Halloween Jack-o-Lantern.There’s also a few [More]
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]
Toning Down Hot Spots
Sometimes even I, your humble (*cough*) restorationist, am called upon for a bit of photo retouching. While it’s indeed wonderful to sometimes work with this new-fangled thing called “color”, [More]
Ten Things
I’ve been digitally restoring photographs for a long time, using Photoshop even longer, and I’ve picked up a few things over the years; simple tips on tools or workflow which have made my life a [More]
Layer Masks – In Elements Too!
Its a pleasure to welcome a new contributor to the Nut House! Stuart Little a well respected photographer and photoshop educator with over 18 years experience in social & commercial photography, [More]
Replacing Sky Part 2
This post was previously seen yesterday at Wetzel and Company. Find out why at the end of this post. Something happens to old photos of a certain age: The sky disappears. Just completely up and [More]
Replacing a Sky with Photoshop
Sometimes it’s necessary to replace elements in a photograph. Sometimes it’s just fun! Whether for fun or necessity, here’s a fairly easy way to go about replacing a piece of a photo, in this [More]
Refining Masks with Overlay Blending
After a weeks break TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman Creating a good mask is an essential part of retouching and compositing images, but the process of developing that mask doesn’t have to [More]
Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 3
By Mike Hoffman Thank you all for welcoming me back to TipSquirrel.com! This week, we’re going to continue our exploration of blend modes in Photoshop. In the past two installments, we reviewed [More]
Repairing Ink Blots
Bad things happen. Bad things even happen to our photos. Bad things like…ink. So when the bad thing happens, how do you go about fixing it? The first thing to remember is to not try to wipe it [More]
Holiday Card: Part 1
Today begins a (hopefully!) fun, four-part tutorial on making a family photo into a holiday card. For the past few years I’ve used old family photos to create holiday cards for both my family [More]
Restoring A Partial Fade
Last week we went over noise reduction, sans plug-in. This week, using the same photo provided, with thanks, by Kelly (Herstoryan), we’ll bring back an extremely faded element. In the example [More]
