Creating Custom Actions
TipSquirrel is delighted to welcome back one of our favorite trainers, Richard Harrington. If you’re a Photoshop enthusiast or professional, you should really be using Photoshop actions. [More]
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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]
Holiday Card, Part 2
We start the second part of our Holiday card tutorial by getting a bit analytical. In order to make some fairly realistic shadows within your photo, you need to first analyze it. The nexus of this [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]
Using Livebrush with Photoshop
There is a brilliant program called Livebrush Lite that can be used to draw out very cool little patterns easily with the your mouse just by simple mouse movements. 1. So firstly go [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]
Vectors From Photograph – Flesh Tones
Continuing our vector tutorial – we will work on the flesh this week… Step 1 We begin by downloading the source file we last worked on from – Here. Next, group the bikini vector we made [More]
Easy Photoshop Slimming
Written by Richard Hales Firstly, I’d like to thank TipSquirrel for asking me to write a tutorial for him, and as it is my first one I’ll keep it short and sweet. This is a process that is worth [More]
