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Heads Up! Getting Information in Lightroom

09/04/2013

Lightroom is wonderful in the way it can stay out of the way and keep you immersed in your images. But, if you need some information while your images fill the screen, there's no need to open up panels or access menus. Lightroom's View Options open the door to a wealth of information, presented heads up style in both the Grid and Loupe views. [More]

Image alignment and analysis with Difference Blending

01/03/2010

Way back when we started our journey through the dark and forbidding lands of Photoshop Blend Modes, I showed this chart, grouping the blend modes into some distinct categories: If you look closely, [More]

Refining Masks with Overlay Blending

22/02/2010

After a weeks break TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman Creating a good mask is an essential part of retouching and compositing images, but the process of developing that mask doesn’t have to [More]

A Duo Of Duotones

17/02/2010

A subtle overlay of color can really perk up a flat black & white image. A two color overlay, composed of (usually) black and another color, called Duotone, and three color, black and two other [More]

Photoshop Blend Modes – Part 6

08/02/2010

The Overlay blend mode in Photoshop is typically used to enhance contrast, making the shadows darker and the highlights brighter. Last week, we looked at a method for using the High Pass Filter in [More]

Photoshop Blend Modes Part 5

01/02/2010

Monday means Mike Hoffman. Here he continues his tour of Photoshop’s Blend Mode This week, we’ll continue our exploration of practical uses of the Overlay blending mode in Photoshop. Recall [More]

Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 4

25/01/2010

Welcome back to Mike Hoffman for the latest in his Blend Mode series. Links to previous parts can be found at the bottom of this post. In earlier parts of this series, we’ve seen that Screen [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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