A Photoshop Photo Pile-up
In this follow-up to the inlaid tabletop we made last time, we'll make a simple frame and duplicate it to make a heap of photos. We'll then add our family photos and lay them all on the table. [More]
Photoshop
Tightening Photoshop’s Layer Masks : Revisited
A couple of weeks ago, fellow Photoshop Nut A.J. Wood presented an “old school” technique for tightening layer masks, a great solution for when you can’t use the newer Refine Mask feature in [More]
Photoshop’s Pass Through Mode
When you open a New Group dialogue box, you might notice that there’s something a little different in there, ‘Pass Through’. What, you may ask is all that about? Well, let’s [More]
Mastering the Photomerge Command (Part 1)
This is the first part of the tutorial. We’ll be back in 2 weeks with part 2 on how to clean up the panoramic file. If there’s enough comments and interest, I’ll add part 3 on how to bring the file into After Effects as a virtual set.
Photomerge is a specialized “mini- application” within Photoshop that assists in combining multiple images into a single photo. You can access it from either Photoshop or Bridge. Depending on the resolution of your sources and the speed of your machine, it can take a while to complete. [More]
Scattered Photo Portraits in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
I was browsing through Flickr the other day when I came across this image by DanleyC. I thought it would make an interesting and fun Elements (or Photoshop) project; so here it is. The image concept [More]
Comic Book Text Style in Photoshop
I’m a huge fan of comics – not that I’ve been able to buy any in the last 5 years or so 🙁 but I do love rereading my old ones. This had me thinking about the old style Pow’s [More]
Designing with Layer Masks
Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at selections and masking, and today we will take masking to yet another level, as we create an entire design using nothing but layer masks. If you’ve been [More]
Easy Soft Glow with Photoshop And Photoshop Elements
On a recent trip to Lanhydrock I came across what can only be described as my dream tray. To me, this is how tea is supposed to be served! The lack of room and other visitors meant I just about had [More]
Wood Inlay in Photoshop
Recently my fellow Photoshop Nut, Gavin Hoey, posted a great tutorial on an Out of Bounds effect that I loved. Just for fun, I decided to use the technique on an old photo and change the [More]
An Introduction to Black and White
When I first started out on this series of tutorials on black & white conversion techniques I started to think about how black & white photography has changed since the advent of digital and [More]
Making a Moody Sky even Moodier with Photoshop
On my own blog recently I posted a photograph I’d taken of a guy riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle and went on to explain that on the day of the shoot there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky. In [More]
Capturing Details with Refine Mask
Last week on TipSquirrel, I introduced the Masks Panel, and today we’re going to take a closer look at an old feature that is new again with CS5. A few versions ago, Adobe introduce the Refine Edge [More]
A Look At : The Digital Photography Workflow Book
The Digital Photography Workflow Book – From Input to Output Written by Juergen Gulbins and Uwe Steinmueller Published by RockyNook ISBN: 978-1-933952-71-0 Fitting Photoshop into your digital [More]
Join Photos to Make Text in Photoshop CS5
Here’s a great little technique that makes use of one of the best new features that Adobe added in Photoshop. It’s called mini bridge and as the name suggests it’s the little brother of the [More]
Using Shadows and Highlights Nondestructively in Photoshop
The Shadows/Highlights adjustment allows you to perfect local areas of contrast in your scene, but unfortunately there is not currently an Adjustment Layer for Shadows/Highlights. Instead we'll create a Smart Object layer and integrate the adjustment into that layer (as a Smart Filter) so that we can revisit the settings as many times as we need to after saving the document. [More]
