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]
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]
Putting Things Behind Glass with Photoshop Elements
In photomontage work there’s sometimes a need to have people or objects behind glass, or other transparent surfaces. This might be someone outside a window or, as we’ll be demonstrating in this [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]
Grunge in 8 Easy Steps
The images above show the ‘out of camera’ and ‘final edit’ versions of a photograph that I took of a ‘Rough Sleeper’ when out on a photo walk in the coastal town [More]
Photo Enhancement in LAB
Its a big TipSquirrel welcome to Erik Bernskiold. Here Erik shows how to work in the Lab color mode to enhance our photos both in contrast and color balance using just a simple curves [More]
Seeing Red
I had a friend call me in a panic the other day. She was scanning some 35mm film and she was freaking out because they kept scanning bright red. I’ve seen it before I told her, and it’s not as [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]
Fine Tune Lightroom 3
Here are some quick setting changes to fine tune your settings in Lightroom 3. [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]
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]
The 5 min Photoshop Retouch
There are few things i hate more than a snapshot of myself….my nose looks large, my eyes are non-existent, and my face is round. Snapshots don’t usually get the pro retouch…but I [More]
Looking At: SiteGrinder 3
I had a few minutes free on Thursday, so I made a website. Ok, maybe not, but pretty close! Before I go any further, just allow me to say that I am not a web developer! In fact, it could be said, [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]
