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Welcome to the home of the step by step creative online tutorial. Here you will find detailed, easy-to-understand steps accompanied by screen shots. These tutorials are liable to be about anything from my current project to something that drove me nuts trying to figure out. It is my hope that the things I can convey here will save you time and frustration.

If there's something that you'd like to see written up, please feel free to let me know

Creating Coloring Book Art

It's easy to get caught up making creative projects for grown-ups like calendars, photo books, and scrapbook pages... but what have you made for the little ones lately? The next time the creative bug bites, consider converting your photos into art for the coloring book crowd instead.

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Creating a Circuit Board Face Goin' Borderless!
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Give Your Photos an Edge How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
Creating duotones with Elements' QuickFix mode Delicious Duotones Classy Thumbnails
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1
Classic Colorizing Placing Text Behind an Object
Burn baby burn! Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Painted Edges in Elements
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue!
How to create an animated 3D gif Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy
Fun with Elements Effects Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color
How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1
Fabulous Feathers Let Your Graphics Do the Talking
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Livin' La Vida Levels Fun with Blend Modes
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Mastering Multiply A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2 The Che-Guevara Effect
Making a macabre collage with Darker Color A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5 Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
Fade to White Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper

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