October at TipSquirrel
It was another great month for TipSquirrel.com and I am, as always,grateful to everyone that contributed to the site. Keep visiting in November for all the regulars, plus we’ll be welcoming [More]
Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer Styles
Written By Mike Hoffman – Mike On Twitter – On The Web Click To Enlarge With Halloween imminent, here’s a quick way to create spooky, scary or silly Jack O’Lanterns starting with a [More]
Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer Styles
With Halloween imminent, here’s a quick way to create spooky, scary or silly Jack O’Lanterns starting with a simple image of a pumpkin, and a cutout shape of the face you want to use. We’ll [More]
Halloweenie Brushes!
Happy Halloween, Tipsters! This week, in honor of the upcoming howl-iday, I’m not doing restoration, but I’m still doing vintage! I’m sharing a few (29) Photoshop brushes [More]
Top Tip Tuesday – Masking Layer Effects
The first video version of Top Tip Tuesday, comments, criticisms and suggestions are very [More]
3D Glass Ball using Layer Styles
By: Rebecca Fryer In this tutorial it’s my aim to take you through the process of creating a convincing 3D Glass Ball using basic layer styles and gradients. Step One: Basic Shape & Fill [More]
Color (Wheel) Correction (Pt. 2/2)
You’ve done your color correction, via whatever method you prefer or the one that worked best for the photo at hand, but it still doesn’t look quite right. Here’s a way to [More]
Combo Color Correction (Pt. 1/2)
Today I bring you the first part of a two-part tutorial. The first will go over a combination method of color cast correction, and the second half will deal with correcting tints. This photo, [More]
Tuesday Top Tip – Make A Layer From Layer Effects
This week I am going to revisit one of my all time favourite tips in Photoshop. I first posted about this a while back before the website became the daily post thing it is now, so this time [More]
Shading vectors in Photoshop
Over the last couple of tutorials we have been gently introducing ourselves to vectors, firstly adding the lines then some colour. Today we are going to work on details. Step 1. Firstly download the [More]
Ask A.J. About Photoshop #1
Today's guest post is a little different. To kick off the new "Ask A.J." series I thought it best to respond with a video answer to the questions posted. Little did I know the adventure awaiting me as I tried to render out the screencast file, then upload to YouTube, then to Vimeo. Needless to say, I'm a bit tired from the early AM recording, but it's all for you dear readers. Watch the video, leave some comments, and spread the word if you think this is a good thing. Oh, and forgive me if I drift off a bit towards the end, I made it through the night without so much as a drop of caffeine. [More]
Smoothing Texture (Redux)
This weeks post is a re-post of a tutorial I had on my blog, Janinealogy, way back in…well, way back. I beg everyones forgiveness for this bit of laziness on my part, but with my home network [More]
Simple Border Effects
A question was raised this week for the easiest way to add a single pixel border inside an image, so that’s what I’m playing with for today’s post. First thing I’m going to do [More]
It’s a Knockout: the Magnifying Glass Effect
To begin with it’s wise to collect a good source image of a magnifying glass which I did via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnifying_glass.jpg, this is Wikimedia Commons which is a [More]
Color Grading with Gradient Maps
by Richard Harrington – RHED Pixel – @rhedpixel Like many folks, I like to experiment with color. Duotones, like ‘em. Romantic color effects, check. Crunchy color, I’m game. There are times [More]
