Using Photoshop to Make Concentric Circles
OK, I’m no graphic designer or digital artist, but I needed a ‘cartoon style closing credit’ for a piece I was working on with a student. Creating the circles was easy, and I kept them [More]
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Deke’s Techniques: The Challenge
Deke McClelland has a great competition running over at his website with some amazing prizes. I’m sorry to say that I’ve left it a little late to write about the first competition, as this [More]
Pro Workflow Techniques Start To Finish
In this video tutorial Rich takes us through the processing of an HDR image from start to finish. To get his desired effect, Rich utilises Blending Modes, Blur and the new to CS6, LUTs. Once the [More]
Creating Fake Highlights with Photoshop
Now of course there's nothing better than getting things right 'in camera' but when it comes to the lighting, what are you supposed to do after the fact when you maybe want to add some highlights or even tweak those that are already there?
Well here's a technique for doing just that…for adding in or tweaking highlights, and it's one I tend to use on a fairly regular basis when putting together composites; however it's also a technique that can be used in any image and what's more it's quick and easy to apply. [More]
Keeping the details, Skin smoothing the smart way
How many times have you seen beauty retouching that has gone too far? you know the kind where the model is left with skin like Barbie? Well this technique allows you to retouch and soften the skin [More]
Simulating Double Exposure with Photoshop
A few days ago I was looking through some stunning triple exposure photos and thought I would show you a basic way of creating a similar effect using Photoshop. [More]
How to Create a Simple Lightburst in Photoshop
In this video I make a really easy light burst using Photoshop. During the video I look at transforming an image using independent handles, Gradient Maps, Blend Modes and Opacity [More]
Round-trip ACR Edits with Photoshop CS6
One of the best ways to maintain a non-destructive workflow in Photoshop CS6, is to use the power of Smart Object layers with your Adobe Camera Raw (or ACR) output. For this quick tutorial, [More]
Resize Software – A Retrospective
First off, let me be candid. The thing that prompted this review…well, I got miffed. It started with my not being able to use my Perfect Resize 7 in CS6. I had to close CS6, open CS5, open the [More]
Mixed Masking in Photoshop
In our last installment, we looked at masking with the pen tool in Photoshop. The pen tool is a powerful way to create nice smooth paths – which can be used to create nice, smooth selections and [More]
Camera and Photoshop Club Searchable Database
Hi there! We’re compiling a database of camera and Photoshop clubs all around the world. The idea is simple, we’d like our readers to be able to find a club, or clubs in their area and get [More]
Masking with The Photoshop Pen Tool
Creating a good mask is one of the essential skills in compositing images within Photoshop. Recognizing the right tool for the masking job is an art in itself. Today, we’ll look at an often overlooked, but highly effective way of creating a very good mask – using the Pen Tool in Photoshop. [More]
Photoshop CS6 The Missing Manual – A Review
Photoshop has a pretty extensive help file, and I don’t need to tell you dear TipSquirrel.com reader that there are some brilliant tutorial websites out there, but nothing quite takes the place of a well laid out, indexed manual that can sit quietly on the desk until that day when you just need to know something in a hurry.
O’Reilly publish a whole range of Missing Manual books and for Photoshop CS6 they have once again turned to Lesa Snider. Lesa has penned two previous incarnations of the Photoshop Missing manual, authoring the CS5 and CS4 books as well as the iPhoto ‘11 Missing Manual. [More]
Start to Finish Workflow with Gavin Hoey
There’s photographic potential all around us, that’s one of the amazing things about photography. Usually there’s a direct connection between the distance travelled and the amount of inspiring [More]
Coloring With Photoshop – Hair
We left our heroine a bit on the pink side, but we’ll get back to that in a little while. The color of the hair can affect the way we see the skin tone, so I’d like to work on that, right now. When colorizing hair, like skin, I like to take my colors from the historical era I’m trying to duplicate [More]
