Just caught up on recent posts as been off for a bit so thought would share my 2 cents. I’m right handed and steam off to the side as per the image below, while holding the jug straight on and tilted to help get a swirl going. This is effective for me and means I have access to the steam knob with my left.
I got some new 200ml loveramics cups for Xmas and actually getting a lot better results in these than my normal taller cups. I ended up loving them so much I bought a pair of 300ml ones also for the morning cappuccino. The image below shows this afternoon’s effort but they were sat a bit before I got my camera out so lost a bit of definition. Left is full fat milk, while right is skimmed for the wife. Definitely my best attempt with skimmed as normally a blob! I use a 2 hole tip currently.