Adding Lens Blur in Photoshop
Most people spend a lot of time trying to keep their digital photos tack sharp. This quest for sharpness however overlooks that blurring can be an excellent tool for guiding the viewer’s focus when [More]
Adding a Vignette Layer with Photoshop
Vignettes are a bit of a Marmite addition to an image, you either love them or hate them. However, if used carefully they can be a useful tool to help lead the viewer’s eye to an area of a [More]
Wooden Letters with Photoshop’s Layer Styles and Blend Modes
Here is a nice easy way to create wooden looking letters, great for cards, web pages or wall papers. We are going to start this project by first creating our background. Start a new document, I chose [More]
Working with 3D Materials in Photoshop CS5
Over the past couple of weeks, my tips have focused on new and interesting ways to create 3D objects with Photoshop CS5. However, the objects we’ve created have all been a bit cartoonish, with [More]
Lightroom 3 Picture Packages
In this Lightroom 3 video tutorial John Arnold takes a look at Picture Packages – an extremely useful feature for event photographers wanting to print and sell their images at the event. We see [More]
Photoshop Auto Blend Layers
For this tutorial I want to start off by first of all giving you a little bit of a background story… A couple of months back I was asked to take a promotional photograph advertising an event [More]
Applying ‘Aftersun’ in Lightroom
If you shoot or edit any kind of portraiture you will eventually end up with images of a lovely model that has been working on his or her tan a little too vigorously and as a result has pretty bad [More]
An Introduction To : Changing Keyboard Short Cuts
There comes a time when you inevitably want to change or alter a keyboard short cut. In this 2 minute video TipSquirrel outlines how to go about [More]
Photoshop 3D – What’s an Extrusion?
As I was experimenting with Photoshop CS5’s new Repousse feature for 3D last week, I had the sudden realization that I hadn’t had this much fun since I was a kid. And that led me to the [More]
An Introduction to Masks
Masks a re a hugely powerful feature inside Photoshop and now they’ve been added to Photoshop Elements. In this 2 minute video TipSquirrel gives us an introduction to Masks to set us on our [More]
Making Spotty Lettering With Photoshop’s Layer Styles
For the last couple of months I’ve been pretty busy what with school holidays and writing things from Photoshop Creative Magazine. So I’ve decided to make a nice easy fun tutorial that is [More]
A Seasoned Photoshop User Gets PS Elements
So, what happens when you give award winning photo-restorationist Janine Smith a copy of Photoshop Elements? She’s already an expert with Photoshop so just what will she make of its little [More]
A Look At Photoshop Elements 9
Adobe announced the release of Photoshop Element 9 today so I took a look around. I’m new to elements and I have to say, I quite like it. In this short video I look at a few of the major [More]
Photoshop in the 3rd Dimension
For artists and designers who have been working with Photoshop, Illustrator and other traditional 2-dimensional graphics programs, the thought of moving into 3D can be intimidating. And, in earlier [More]
Lightroom Series Round-Up
So there we are, two weeks of nothing but Lightroom. In case you missed any posts, here’s a list of what we’ve covered; We started with an introduction, asking What is Lightroom? Mike [More]
