Book Review: A Village Lost & Found
In a bit of a break from the Photoshop related content usually found on TipSquirrel.com, but still in the realm of vintage photographs in which I’m known to dwell, I offer to you, today, a peek [More]
Book Review: A Village Lost & Found
In a bit of a break from the Photoshop related content usually found on TipSquirrel.com, but still in the realm of vintage photographs in which I’m known to dwell, I offer to you, today, a peek [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]
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]
Adobe Quick Tip Thursday
Greetings all! Just some quick tips today as I'm getting myself together for this weekend's D2W conference. As always we're talking Photoshop so let's throw out the tips:
1. Did you know you can use your keyboard's Numeric Keypad to change a Layer's opacity? Dial 0-9 to get 100% through 90% opacity. Dial two digits (54) to get 54% opacity. USEFUL TIP - If you're using a brush-based tool you'll change the brush opacity INSTEAD of the Layer opacity. [More]
Lightening A Dark Photo
Do you have any photos in your collection that are very dark? That doesn’t mean they’re a lost cause! Here’s just one way to lighten them up! For this method, we’ll employ one of my favorite [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]
Portrait Magic Pro Action Pack (Portrait Magic) – A Review
Today we welcome back Rich Hales. After an excellent review of Lightroom 3 last week we thought we’d throw a copy of Portrait Magic Pro Action Pack from PhotographyBB and see what he makes of [More]
Photoshop's Easy 3D
It’s a delight to welcome back digital artist Tim Shelbourne. Like many Photoshop users, Tim hasn’t dived into 3D in the past. With the new features of CS5 however, he’s taken a [More]
Photoshop’s Easy 3D
It’s a delight to welcome back digital artist Tim Shelbourne. Like many Photoshop users, Tim hasn’t dived into 3D in the past. With the new features of CS5 however, he’s taken a [More]
3D from 2D with Photoshop and Apple Motion
TipSquirrel.com is proud to welcome Ariane Fisher. Ariane is the Creative Director at Storymix Media. She is Apple certified in Final Cut Pro and Motion Graphics, and also enjoys dabbling in 3D with [More]
Retouching Technique in Restoration
The Restorationist Janine Smith is never short of an idea or two when it comes to bringing life back into an old photograph. Here she takes inspiration from a technique that is most commonly used in [More]
Lightroom 3 – A Review
After two public beta versions and months of waiting Lightroom 3 was officially released today. This release of Lightroom is somewhat unusual because the public beta version is pretty much the final [More]
Nested Smart Objects – Part 1
We’ve been exploring the power of Smart Objects, and starting today we will test the limits of just how far you can go – by nesting Smart Objects, one inside the other. By building Smart Objects [More]
Lens Correction in Photoshop CS5
These two tips come from my new books from Peachpit Press: Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop for Video (Fourth Edition). One of the commands in Photoshop CS5 that received a major [More]
