Stroked Art
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create a “stroked” picture from a photo, for this you will need to know how to use the magic wand, stroke & pen tool/lasso tool. We [More]
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To Crop or Not to Crop
Hello and welcome back to another Tuesday Top Tip, those little things in Photoshop that are sometimes over looked, yet can be so very handy. This week a quick look at the crop tool. There’s a [More]
Make an Easy Web Button
When I say Easy – I really mean it – easy easy easy easy! 😀 Buttons are cool and can be very effectively used on websites. So lets begin. Step 1 New 1024×768 72ppi document [More]
Easily Add Bruises
Step 1 Open your photo you want to add bruises too, I’m going to be using one of me (handsome devil aren’t I 😀 – Btw check out the beard project – here ). We will be making this [More]
Easy Hell’s Kitchen Candle Thingy
This week I have been working to make a reproduction of an effect seen on the US TV programme Hell’s Kitchen. Before each commercial break a little film shows the Hell’s Kitchen pitch fork in a [More]
Creating an Eye in Photoshop.
Summer holidays are hard, you’re expected to go out all the time and wander around parks and shops 🙁 this has impacted my finances far too much, as such I’m thinking about selling some [More]
Brush Stroke a Path
Here’s where I’m going to end up today using the easy stroke path command. So first off I need a path, now I could use the pen tool and the what-not, but I’m not going to. [More]
Scanning For Restoration
So, you’ve got this great old photo you want to restore. What are the steps you need to take to get it into your computer so you can perform some Photoshop magic? Is the photo in fairly good [More]
The Long And Winding Road
by Janine Smith The use of the postcard first began in 1861 when a copyright was issued to one John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, Pa. The first cards, called “postal cards” or “postals”, were [More]
Making an Object Transparent
Glass tutorial by Simon Rudd In this tutorial you will learn how to make a glass object from a photo 1. First find a photo with an interesting object in it. I got this from sxc.hu Click to Enlarge [More]
Masking the Facts
TipSquirrel once again welcomes award winning restorationist Janine Smith. Here, in my third and final homage to Calculations, I revisit the theme that first led to my epiphany. In his brilliant [More]
Using Textures in Photoshop
It’s with great pleasure that we welcome this week’s guest poster Andie Smith. Admit it…textures are hot right now!!!! They are artsy, and edgy, and just flat out awesome! They [More]
Its All In The Name
One of the best practices to get into is naming your layers, but this can be quite tedious. Oh yeah, it only take a couple of seconds, but that’s a lifetime when you’re all fired up to [More]
Blend-O-Rama
Calculations as a Channel Blender! Huh! Who knew? Probably a lot of people, but it’s pretty new to me! Suffice it to say I’m not one of those who gets a new toy and rushes off to write [More]
