Tag Your Images–Keywords in Lightroom
Today’s tip is one that grew in the telling. When I sat down to create today’s tutorial, I had originally intended to discuss Collections in Lightroom, as a great way to organize your images. [More]
Photoshop’s Selection Tool Options
In this article let’s look at some Marquee Tool Options. You‘ll notice it changes depending on which tool you have selected, even which marquee tool. So lets have a look at what’s what. [More]
Complex Selections Made Simple with Photoshop CS5
Every version of Photoshop seems to do something better and faster then it’s predecessors and Photoshop CS5 is no exception. At a recent photography trade show I spent many happy hours [More]
Adding High Contrast Using Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask Filter
For this tutorial I want to share a technique with you that I use on virtually all of my images when I’m looking to add some High Contrast. Now this technique it could be considered a little on [More]
A Look At Photoshop Plug-In – OnOne Perfect Resize 7
Newsflash! I love OnOne Software’s Perfect Resize 7! I’ve gone on for years about the resizing wonders of Genuine Fractals, and that hasn’t changed just because the name has; in fact, now [More]
Sending images by email from Lightroom
In the past few weeks we’ve looked at various ways to export image files from Bridge and Lightroom. In fact, in previous tips we’ve even looked at directly exporting to Social Media sites from [More]
Photoshop and The Alt / Option Key
There’s few occasions when I’m in Photoshop that I don’t have my thumb resting on the Alt key. What makes this humble little key so special? Well, let me show you just a few of the occasions where I really couldn’t do without it. [More]
Fixing Faded Historical Photos
A common problem with old black-and-white or sepia-toned photos is that they fade over time. You can use a Levels or Curves adjustment to improve contrast, but both commands often introduce color artefacts into the image. A few extra steps are needed to get the best results when you want to restore proper balance to an old photo. [More]
Engraving Text with Photoshop
I found out today (well about ½ hour ago) that it was my turn to write – eeep! I thought, “I’ve not prepared anything” So here I show you a very easy (and quick!) way of creating engraved [More]
Creating a Lensbaby Effect with Photoshop Elements
If you’re not familiar with the Lensbaby range, they are a set of lenses you can buy to attach to your SLR or DSLR camera. They are manual focus and designed especially to produce random and [More]
Exporting Multiple Images from Lightroom
Over the past two weeks, I’ve presented some tips on exporting multiple images from Adobe Bridge using Image Processor and the Bridge Export Panel. However, some photographers among you might be [More]
Black and White with Photoshop and Lightroom
Welcome to the second part of my series on black & white photography. In the first part of the series we discussed what black & white photography entails and some considerations you should [More]
Happy Birthday to Us
So, it’s TipSquirrel.com’s second birthday and I’ve been struggling to decide what to write about to mark this occasion. I could run through a list of all the people I’m grateful to [More]
Quick Tone Photoshop Technique
In this video tutorial,The Restorationist Janine Smith takes a restoration project and uses a combination of curves and Blend mode to bring out the detail of her image. [More]
Export multiple JPEG files with the Bridge CS5 Export Panel
Last week, we examined Bridge CS5’s capability to export multiple files with the Image Processor script. We found a powerful utility, but one that had a few shortcomings. In today’s tip, we’ll [More]
