Text Chiselled in Stone with Photoshop
This week’s tip is a two-for-one, bringing you some classic techniques. We’ll create a nice stone texture, then carve some text in it using layer styles, as well as a few additional tricks. [More]
Tutorial
Get Stuck In To Photoshop – A Beginners Guide
In this video I help those opening up Photoshop for the first time and being a little overawed by it all.
We’ll take a quick look at the layout of Photoshop before singling out the tools and filters best suited for your first ‘play’ with this amazing software. [More]
Wacom Preferences and How to Import and Export Them (And a Little Bit of Photoshop)
NB: This tutorial specifically refers to the Wacom Intuos 4 tablets If, like me, you have a Wacom tablet and have spent hours fiddling around with the settings and options rather than doing [More]
How to Make Photoshop Clipping Masks
In today’s video tip, learn how to create and use a clipping mask within Photoshop. Clipping masks can be used like a digital cookie cutter, to provide a quick and easy way to use the shape and [More]
Stroke Path With Brush – Extra
In this video I take a look at an old favourite Stroke Path With Brush. This time though I go a little further and experiment with more options. I admit, I love using this feature and may have been a [More]
A Photoshop HDR Workflow Example
In this video, photographer and trainer Rich Harrington takes 3 images and works with them to complete a single HDR image with multiple effects.
Combining the images and them post processing within Photoshop Rich gives us a real world example of photographic workflow. [More]
Creating a Web Gallery in Lightroom
Recently, I’ve been asked to set up a few web galleries from a recent shoot, and I thought that I would show you how easy it is to create galleries from within Lightroom. To do this tutorial, [More]
Reflections in 3D, part 2
Today, we’ll finish up the image we started last week. We’ll start with the basic 3D text and postcard elements we created, add a 3D model of a wine glass, and finish off with some standard [More]
Create a Power Line Background Using Photoshop
A few days ago Gavin Hoey posted a great tutorial on his YouTube Channel showing how to create a Fractured Image Effect. A lot of people asked how Gavin created his background for the tutorial so he’s very kindly recorded a new tutorial for TipSquirrel.com showing just that. [More]
Easy Smoke and Mist With Photoshop
For this tutorial I thought I’d share with you a real quick technique for creating realistic looking smoke/mist in just 4 simple steps… This is one of those techniques that when used on the [More]
All Kinds of Flips
I used to run around like a chicken with my head cut off looking for images with obliterated eyes to practice flipping off…I mean flipping eyes, but then it hit me, duh! [More]
Reflections in 3D
Today we start a multi-part tutorial in creating complex 3D images in Photoshop 3D Extended. The image we’ll create was inspired by a magazine advertisement I spotted while “relaxing” on a recent airline journey. The interweaving reflections caught my eye, and the idea for a tutorial was born. [More]
Creating a Rustic Painterly Effect Using Photoshop Elements.
In this month’s tutorial we’ll take a look at creating a rustic painterly effect in Elements. We’ll do this by merging a photograph and a wood panel texture together using a combination of [More]
Swiss Cheese Text in Photoshop
I love typography – its fun and easy. Today I wanted to show you how to make a simple “Swiss cheese effect”. Step 1. Start by making a 1024×768 pixel document and colour it #3f2004, Next [More]
HDR Finishing–Tips and Techniques
As we’ve seen in the past few tips on HDR, the process of combining and tone mapping the bracketed images is only a small part of the overall process. In today’s video tip, we will see some [More]
