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TipSquirrel.com Action Set

04/07/2011

This action set includes some techniques you’ll want to use again and again on your images, including; High Contrast, Color Separation in LAB, Duo Tone, Fixing Faded Photos, Grunge Border, LensBaby Effect, Soft Glow, Soft Vignette, Stars, Star Wars Text effect. The techniques are all based on tutorials from The Photoshop Nuts at TipSquirrel.com. [More]

Simulating Long Exposure on Water Using Photoshop

16/05/2011

A little while ago David Asch wrote Mimicking Long Exposure Cloudscapes with Photoshop Elements. This led to a question asking if there was a way to simulate long exposure on water, so here we are; [More]

Lightning and Break-Up Effects in Photoshop

27/04/2011

Let’s take the classic lightning effect and add a little scatter effect too; Step 1. Make a new 1024×768 sized documents, set the background colour to black. Next using the Text tool Type [More]

Creating a Soft Focus Vignette in Photoshop CS5

25/03/2011

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]

Creating a Lensbaby Effect with Photoshop Elements

02/03/2011

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]

Blurring the Background with Adobe Camera Raw

15/11/2010

For this tutorial we’ll take a look at how we can add a soft glow to the background of our raw images, using ACR’s local adjustment and masking tools, without softening the subject area. [More]

Adding Lens Blur in Photoshop

08/10/2010

Most people spend a lot of time trying to keep their digital photos tack sharp. This quest for sharpness however overlooks that blurring can be an excellent tool for guiding the viewer’s focus when [More]

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2009 A collection of links to handy Photoshop resources.

2009 Eric started making his own content.

2010 Photoshop experts started to contribute and 'The Photoshop Nuts' were assembled

2012 Eric is a finalist in Adobe's 'Next Photoshop Evangelist' competition.

2014 The Nuts see personal success or change career, TipSquirrel limps on.

2015 Eric presents for Adobe for the first time at The Photography Show

2016 Eric leaves freelance and becomes employed. TipSquirrel looses steam.

2020 Eric resumes freelance and vows to get TipSquirrel back on it's feet

2021 Eric begins making content. No Nuts this time, but plans to have guests from time to time.

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