The Picture on the Wall (pt. 1)
(Authors Note: My New Years resolution is to try and keep my tutorials a bit shorter. I’ve started off quite well,if I say so myself, but I feel I must warn you: My New Year resolutions usually [More]
Photoshop
Smarter Texting –Transforming Editable Text
TipSquirrel welcomes back Rebecca Fryer This a quick tip to help you achieve editable transformed text Click to Enlarge To begin with create some Text in my example I used Cooper Black font as it [More]
Blend Mode Basics – Part 1
First and foremost, I’d like to thank TipSquirrel.com for asking me to come back and present another series of tutorials for you! [Welcome back Mike! (TS)] For the next several weeks, [More]
Texas Snowman
I’m diverting from the restoration tutorials because, well, it’s Winter and I want to build a snowman! The only problem with that is that I live in North Central Texas and if we ever do [More]
Repairing Ink Blots
Bad things happen. Bad things even happen to our photos. Bad things like…ink. So when the bad thing happens, how do you go about fixing it? The first thing to remember is to not try to wipe it [More]
Holiday Card, Part 4
This week we’re finishing up our holiday card we’re making with an old family photo by adding a bit of sparkle and a frame. To begin, you’ll need to go back to the brush preset we [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]
Holiday Card, Part 3
For her regular Wednesday post, TipSquirrel welcomes back Janine Smith @landailyn In this, part three of our holiday card project, we’re going to do some decorating! This can be done on [More]
Scott Kelby, Andrew Kramer, and the Decline of True Art
TipSquirrel welcomes back Chad Perkins Before digging into this blog, I must clarify its scandalous title. This blog is most certainly not to deride the artistic talents of Scott Kelby or Andrew [More]
Stencil From Photo
A few months ago I was playing with Photoshop and made a couple of stencil pictures out of stock photos (See them here) so I thought I’d do a short tutorial on how to make them. Step 1. Go to [More]
Holiday Card: Part 1
Today begins a (hopefully!) fun, four-part tutorial on making a family photo into a holiday card. For the past few years I’ve used old family photos to create holiday cards for both my family [More]
Rebuilding RGB
Sample image file included at the end of this post, if you wish to follow along! Today, we’re going to “rebuild” RGB channels. This technique comes in handy if a couple of your original RGB [More]
Restoring A Partial Fade
Last week we went over noise reduction, sans plug-in. This week, using the same photo provided, with thanks, by Kelly (Herstoryan), we’ll bring back an extremely faded element. In the example [More]
