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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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Fire It Up! Holiday Cards
Classy Thumbnails Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes
Fun with Elements Effects Give Your Photos an Edge
Livin' La Vida Levels The No-Name Photo Effect
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Two-step pro portrait studio effect Fast Photo Spotlight Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Mastering Multiply A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2 Creating Favicons
Retouching People How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus
How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color Quick Creative Collage Combining Images
Portrait Popper Goin' Borderless!
Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
Painted Edges in Elements Fall Leaf Photo Frame
Correcting shadows and highlights Crop City!
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Digital Plastic Surgery
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking Picking the Perfect Palette
How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2 Scanning Secrets
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies
Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements Secret Layer Masks
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles Blur Baby Blur!
Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2
Burn baby burn! Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens

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