Composite Images: Attention to Detail
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I’m a big fan of compositing images in Photoshop, and can spend hours sometimes on one image tweeking this and that. For this short tutorial I want to cover [More]
Blend modes
Tonal Adjusttments with Brushes in Photoshop CS5
In this video for TipSquirrel.com, digital artist Tim Shelbourne uses adjustment layers, masks and brushes to add some tones to his painting. [More]
Mastering Photoshop’s Blending Modes
Blending modes are both a mystery and a source of great design power. Each blending mode controls how one layer’s pixels are affected by those in another layer (or by a tool from the Tools [More]
Old Postage Stamp Effect in Photoshop
In this classic Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you just how easy it is to turn a modern digital image into a traditional postage stamp. We’ll even go as far as creating perforations around [More]
Wooden Letters with Photoshop’s Layer Styles and Blend Modes
Here is a nice easy way to create wooden looking letters, great for cards, web pages or wall papers. We are going to start this project by first creating our background. Start a new document, I chose [More]
Photoshop Compositing With Blend Modes
With the introduction of the new and improved Refine Edge in Photoshop CS5, making selections has never been easier…or has it? In this tutorial I show you a technique using Blend Modes to make [More]
Blurry II: Combining Techniques
Last week I went over a few ways to lessen motion blur in a photo. There are also, of course, many other ways you can approach this problem – these were just the tip of the Photoshop iceberg. Any [More]
“Fixing” Blurry
Do you have any photos, I know you do, that look like the person taking it was a bit on the shaky side (everything in the photo is a bit blurry)? Or maybe the subject of the photo moved, maybe the [More]
"Fixing" Blurry
Do you have any photos, I know you do, that look like the person taking it was a bit on the shaky side (everything in the photo is a bit blurry)? Or maybe the subject of the photo moved, maybe the [More]
Dark II; Photoshop's Layer Blend Modes
Ok, here’s the deal: There’s more than one way to do 99.9% of anything you do in Photoshop. I think there may be only one way of turning it on and off, I could be wrong. It’s my belief, [More]
Dark II; Photoshop’s Layer Blend Modes
Ok, here’s the deal: There’s more than one way to do 99.9% of anything you do in Photoshop. I think there may be only one way of turning it on and off, I could be wrong. It’s my belief, [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]
Creative Luminosity Techniques
Last week, we saw several ways in which we could introduce the Luminosity blend mode into our Photoshop sharpening workflow. Today, it’s all about creative application of this technique. Since the [More]
Luminosity Sharpening 3 Ways
Last time on TipSquirrel, on our ever-expanding journey into blend modes in Photoshop, we looked at the Luminosity blend mode. This mode allowed us to use the brightness values from one layer to make [More]
Introducing the Luminosity Blend Mode
Whether you produce your images for web or for print, at some point you’ll want to sharpen the images for output. Sharpening, as we’ve discussed in earlier tips, is a process in which the [More]
