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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

Get Sharp!

How to sharpen individual channels

You’ve probably learned the hard way that sharpening an image that contains noise or grain means that the noise and grain gets sharpened too. Instead of making the photo look better, it ends up looking ten times worse than it did. Bummer!

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Digital Plastic Surgery Fade to White
Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring
The Basics of Design How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color
Creating duotones with Elements' QuickFix mode Delicious Duotones Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Ordering business cards online
Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Scanning Secrets How to make a drive-free Desktop
Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop Holiday Cards
Correcting shadows and highlights How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Fabulous Fades Web navigation tips
Creating a Circuit Board Face The Che-Guevara Effect
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People
Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2
Placing Text Behind an Object Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1
Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks Pick a New Picker
Printing color separations in Photoshop The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1
Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1
Blur Baby Blur! Secret Layer Masks
Classy Thumbnails Photo-Type
Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1 Give Your Photos an Edge

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