Vector Masks in Photoshop
In last week’s post on TipSquirrel, we started looking at drawing with shapes and paths in Photoshop. In the interest of getting our toes wet, so to speak, we looked at the shape tools, and saw [More]
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Enhancing Black and White Images with Photoshop and Lightroom
Welcome to my third tutorial on black and white photography. In this tutorial we will be looking at ways to further enhance your images once they have been converted into black & white. Contrast [More]
Ten Things Beginners Should Know in Photoshop
There's a few things that often trip up the new Photoshop user. In this post AJ wood points out the top 10 to bear in mind. [More]
Creating a Faux Lomo/Plastic Camera Effect with Photoshop Elements
There has recently been an explosion of smartphone apps that create all kinds of faux vintage camera effects; particularly those of the somewhat unpredictable Lomo and other poorly constructed [More]
Lightroom Organization with Smart Collections
If you’ve been following my past couple of tips on Tagging your Lightroom Images with Keywords, and Organizing and Searching in Lightroom with Keywords, you are well-prepared for this week’s tip. [More]
Creating a Soft Focus Vignette in Photoshop CS5
For a prior tutorial, I demonstrated how to create a vignette effect around the subject of a photograph, using Lightroom 3. Today we’ll take a look at a subtly different technique, which [More]
Simple Stain Remover in Photoshop
You’re stumped, you’ve met your match, you don’t know what to do – have you ever felt like that when you see a photo, or a particular area on a photo? I’m sure you have! I know I have, and [More]
Tag Your Images–Keywords in Lightroom
Today’s tip is one that grew in the telling. When I sat down to create today’s tutorial, I had originally intended to discuss Collections in Lightroom, as a great way to organize your images. [More]
Creating a Lensbaby Effect with Photoshop Elements
If you’re not familiar with the Lensbaby range, they are a set of lenses you can buy to attach to your SLR or DSLR camera. They are manual focus and designed especially to produce random and [More]
Mastering the Photomerge Command (Part 2)
The following tutorial is adapted from the book Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques from Adobe Press. This is the second part of the tutorial. Be sure to check out part 1 [More]
Exporting multiple files with Image Processor
Sometimes tried-and-true methods are very efficient at getting the job done, and the Image Processor script (which has been around for quite some time) is one of those old standby tools. When you [More]
Tightening Photoshop’s Layer Masks : Revisited
A couple of weeks ago, fellow Photoshop Nut A.J. Wood presented an “old school” technique for tightening layer masks, a great solution for when you can’t use the newer Refine Mask feature in [More]
Mastering the Photomerge Command (Part 1)
This is the first part of the tutorial. We’ll be back in 2 weeks with part 2 on how to clean up the panoramic file. If there’s enough comments and interest, I’ll add part 3 on how to bring the file into After Effects as a virtual set.
Photomerge is a specialized “mini- application” within Photoshop that assists in combining multiple images into a single photo. You can access it from either Photoshop or Bridge. Depending on the resolution of your sources and the speed of your machine, it can take a while to complete. [More]
Scattered Photo Portraits in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
I was browsing through Flickr the other day when I came across this image by DanleyC. I thought it would make an interesting and fun Elements (or Photoshop) project; so here it is. The image concept [More]
Designing with Layer Masks
Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at selections and masking, and today we will take masking to yet another level, as we create an entire design using nothing but layer masks. If you’ve been [More]
