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]
Curves
Using The Histogram and Curves in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at one of my favourite tricks for improving photographic contrast more quickly and more accurately, using the Histogram sliders in Curves. This technique [More]
Toning Down Hot Spots
Sometimes even I, your humble (*cough*) restorationist, am called upon for a bit of photo retouching. While it’s indeed wonderful to sometimes work with this new-fangled thing called “color”, [More]
Photo Enhancement in LAB
Its a big TipSquirrel welcome to Erik Bernskiold. Here Erik shows how to work in the Lab color mode to enhance our photos both in contrast and color balance using just a simple curves [More]
Seeing Red
I had a friend call me in a panic the other day. She was scanning some 35mm film and she was freaking out because they kept scanning bright red. I’ve seen it before I told her, and it’s not as [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]
Levels and Curves
I’ve been asked recently about Levels and Curves. Now I could record a TipTorial but regular readers will know, you’d be better off with some professional tutorials. It’s unusual [More]
Lightening A Dark Photo
Do you have any photos in your collection that are very dark? That doesn’t mean they’re a lost cause! Here’s just one way to lighten them up! For this method, we’ll employ one of my favorite [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]
The Tilt-Shift Effect in Photoshop
TipSquirrel welcomes back photographer Andie Smith – Twitter I have a confession…. I love the look of miniature models, but hate using a tilt-shift lens. Thankfully I’m good [More]
