Photoshop Updates June 2016
Adobe announced today, Tuesday 21st June 2016, a few major updates to Photoshop CC 2015. Its not the major all bells and whistles we’re waiting for but there’s still some goodies for us [More]
Crop
The Art of the Crop and Photoshop Power Tips
In this tutorial I’m not going to tell you HOW to do something, but offer you brief insight into WHY you should do it (and give you 5 power tips to inspire.) Adobe software allows you to crop [More]
Photoshop Crop Tool – Its Not Just For Cropping
CoverPhotoshop Crop Tool has, you may thing one simple basic function, but it has a whole host of other great features beside just resizing your image. It'll straighten, add canvas and even has different overlays to help with composition. [More]
Photoshop’s Perspective Crop Tool
Sometimes it is the simplest tools that get the job done most quickly and efficiently. Photoshop's Perspective Crop Tool isn't the most glamorous tool in the toolbox, but it does its job well and with a minimum of fuss. Fix perspective distortion quickly and easily with this simple tool. [More]
Cropping For a Facebook Cover in Photoshop
So here we are, as I write this it’s Boxing Day and it occurs to me that readers might want to crop a new Christmas photo for their Facebook cover. So, here’s a quick overview; [More]
Cropping in Photoshop CS6 and CC
The crop tool is a fundamental tool in Photoshop. I use it on almost all my photos and not just for cropping closer. Used correctly the crop tool can straighten horizons, add a dramatic angle and even make a border. So when Adobe redesigned the Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6 they radically changes how the tool works. Any change to the Crop Tool was going to be tricky for die hard Photoshop users and some features are more welcome then others.
In this video I’ll run through the major features that I use day to day as well as some of the further changes made to Photoshop CC’s Crop Tool.
I know a few Photoshop users wish that Adobe had left the Crop Tool alone so at the end of the video I’ll tell you how to turn back the clock and get as close to the classic cropping experience as possible. [More]
Using and Checking Perspective Crop in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial I take a look at the ‘New’ Perspective Crop Tool. Ok, it’s not new as such but it does have a new home.
Getting the crop right is tricky so I’ve included a couple of things I do to check I’ve got it right. [More]
Introducing Photoshop Touch for iPad
It was only a matter of time. When a device like the Apple iPad is developed for mobile computing and creative uses, working with photos is a given. That means making selections and layers, applying [More]
Fixing White Balance in ACR
I confess, I’ve never changed the white balance settings on my camera, in fact, after I recorded this video I thought I’d look and see where to change them and it took me a lot longer than it [More]
Speed your scanning workflow in Photoshop
If you’re like me, you probably have stacks of old photographs sitting around in the “to be scanned” queue. In fact, you may, like me, have additional piles from family and friends in the same [More]
Photoshop Crop Tool Tips
In a previous TipSquirrel article I explained how to size images for print & web. As a matter of practice, I use the Crop Tool when I want to quickly make adjustments to image or canvas size. Here are some of my favorite tips: Resample an Image to Size [More]
Power Cropping
TipSquirrel is proud to welcome back Rich Harrington to our humble little site. Rich is an internationally published author. His book, Photoshop for Video, was the first of its kind to focus on [More]
To Crop or Not to Crop
Hello and welcome back to another Tuesday Top Tip, those little things in Photoshop that are sometimes over looked, yet can be so very handy. This week a quick look at the crop tool. There’s a [More]
