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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.

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Color Shifting Made Easy

Color Shifting Made Easy

I took a picture of a gorgeous Stingray not long ago at the Corvette Museum in Kentucky. The shot turned out beautifully, though, what if I wanted to change the car color to something else? It'd be easy enough if the turquoise was solid, but the car is shiny and contains reflections. You'd think making this car a bright purple would be a time-consuming and frustratingly tedious job. Not so my friends. I'm going to show you a quick and easy way to make this car any color I want, all the while preserving the reflections, plus the gray Stingray logo and air intake vents.

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The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1 Playful Panoramas
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Retouching People
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Soft Edges
Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Mastering Multiply A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2 The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1
Creating duotones with Elements' QuickFix mode Delicious Duotones Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Secret Layer Masks Photo Spotlight
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 Fun with Elements Effects
How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Ordering business cards online
The No-Name Photo Effect Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges Creating a Circuit Board Face
Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone! Using vector shapes to add a watermark Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 1
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Classic Colorizing Correcting shadows and highlights
Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2 Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame Mysteries of Unsharp Mask
Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements Polaroid in a Picture
Blur Baby Blur! Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer
How to change the default email client in Tiger Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Fun with Blend Modes
Give Your Photos an Edge The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1
QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words
Livin' La Vida Levels Scanning Secrets

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