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Drawing With Photoshop Shape Tools – A lesson for beginners
Elizabeth Gast, or ‘Firgs’ as she’s better known, drops in for Top Tip Tuesday special – Thanks Firgy! There is an epidemic among beginner Photoshop users. It’s called [More]
Striking Silver
Up until the 1960’s, when resin coating became the norm and gave photo paper a smooth, shiny look and feel, photos were commonly developed using the silver gelatin dry plate process, caused by [More]
Refining Masks with Overlay Blending
After a weeks break TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman Creating a good mask is an essential part of retouching and compositing images, but the process of developing that mask doesn’t have to [More]
A Duo Of Duotones
A subtle overlay of color can really perk up a flat black & white image. A two color overlay, composed of (usually) black and another color, called Duotone, and three color, black and two other [More]
No Flipping Photoshop
Without a doubt, the hardest damage to restore in a photo is damage to people, especially faces. It’s also, without a doubt this area that is also the most important. No matter how devastating [More]
Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 3
By Mike Hoffman Thank you all for welcoming me back to TipSquirrel.com! This week, we’re going to continue our exploration of blend modes in Photoshop. In the past two installments, we reviewed [More]
Eye Retouching in Photoshop
One the most common problems I find myself fixing in Photoshop are over exaggerated lines under eyes. This problem is the result of strong light above the subject, something that is almost [More]
The Picture on the Wall (pt. 1)
(Authors Note: My New Years resolution is to try and keep my tutorials a bit shorter. I’ve started off quite well,if I say so myself, but I feel I must warn you: My New Year resolutions usually [More]
Holiday Card, Part 4
This week we’re finishing up our holiday card we’re making with an old family photo by adding a bit of sparkle and a frame. To begin, you’ll need to go back to the brush preset we [More]
Holiday Card, Part 2
We start the second part of our Holiday card tutorial by getting a bit analytical. In order to make some fairly realistic shadows within your photo, you need to first analyze it. The nexus of this [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]
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]
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]
