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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

Pick a New Picker

Did you know you could do that? What a nice way to further customize the way you work in Photoshop. Installing a new color picker is surprisingly easy and there are some great options available, both freeware and shareware, that make choosing beautiful, complementary color palettes a breeze. First I'm going to show you where to find these little critters, and then I'll show you how to install my favorite one.

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Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes Playful Panoramas
How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame
Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1 Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide
How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1 Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2 Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper
How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue
Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
Getting "Smart" with GoLive Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Use your local library
Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Creating a Circuit Board Face Portrait Popper
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction Fast uploading
How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1
Creating Favicons Two-step pro portrait studio effect Fast Photo Spotlight
Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges
How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2 Pick a New Picker
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone! Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame Pixel Super Sleuthing
Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch Placing Text Behind an Object

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