Brushes

Create a Power Line Background Using Photoshop

01/07/2011

A few days ago Gavin Hoey posted a great tutorial on his YouTube Channel showing how to create a Fractured Image Effect. A lot of people asked how Gavin created his background for the tutorial so he’s very kindly recorded a new tutorial for TipSquirrel.com showing just that. [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]

Photoshop CS5 Scrubby Zoom and Brush Softness

19/04/2010

AJ Wood looks at a few handy little tweaks in Photoshop CS5 [More]

Photoshop CS5 – New Painting Brushes

16/04/2010

We wanted to get a proper perspective of the new brushes in CS5 so we asked traditional and digital artist Tim Shelbourne to give us his thoughts. Tim on Twitter Tim’s Blog [More]

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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