Photoshop Touch for iPad – Part 2
Picking up from Part 1 of our Photoshop Touch tutorial (where I covered the organization of the UI, basic layering and selection options, basic tool options, and a simple layered workflow for [More]
Dan Moughamian
The Photoshop CS6 Oil Paint Filter
Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and have a little fun with Photoshop. Try new filters, new blend modes… experiment a bit! CS6 offers plenty of opportunity for this with new [More]
Reviving Afternoon Skies with Photoshop Multiply Mode
Dealing with overly bright skies is a challenge photographers of all stripes must deal with on a regular basis. We've all been there: on vacation, in a great spot, just a few hours to photograph but sunrise and sunset are not an option. So we photograph our subjects when the sun is overhead, showering everything in blue light. Skies suffer the worst sometimes, with areas that are partially blue and others partially blown out or too bright. The shot below exemplifies this. [More]
Photoshop Color Range Selections
One of the best ways to make selections in Photoshop CS4, CS5 and CS6, is with the Color Range command. This is especially true for photos that have areas of contiguous color that are [More]
Halloween Photoshop Brushes and Tutorials
Its that time of year again, so here’s a little rundown of some of the goodies we’ve posted here on TipSquirrel in previous years; Halloween Brushes from Janine Smith In this post Janine [More]
Photoshop CS5 HUD Color Pickers
One of the more useful improvements to Photoshop CS5 is the addition of the HUD (or Heads Up Display) Color Pickers. A bit of random trivia: this name was borrowed from military aviation. The idea is [More]
Streamlining Your Lightroom Workflow with Stacks
It’s a problem most photographers face on a regular basis: you’ve got a subject or composition you’d like to focus on, but because weather conditions or other variables change [More]
Using Parametric Curves in ACR 6 to Improve Contrast
When you need to improve the contrast in your raw photos, Parametric Curves are a great way to simplify the thought process and task of making a Curves adjustment. Instead of guessing or arbitrarily [More]
Creating a Soft Focus Vignette in Photoshop CS5
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]
Working with Lightroom 3 Vignettes
For this tutorial we take a look at how the Post-Crop Vignette feature in Lightroom 3 helps us to add a bit of style to the image, but more importantly, it also helps to direct the viewer’s [More]
Adding Metadata to Images in Photoshop CS5
Happy Holidays everyone! For this final TipSquirrel installment of 2010, we’ll take a look at how you can help protect your photos by applying important copyright and contact information [More]
Selective Edits with Photoshop Adjustment Layer Masks
Here we take a look at a simple way to limit our Photoshop Image Adjustment Layers, to affect only certain regions of the photograph. We’ll do this using the built-in layer mask and the [More]
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]
Blurring the Background with Adobe Camera Raw
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]
Creative Effects with Photoshop’s Liquify Filter – Pt 2
In the second instalment of the “fun with Liquify” series, Dan focuses on brush parameters and useful masking options to help ‘carve’ a Halloween Jack-o-Lantern.There’s also a few [More]
