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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

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The other night I had the immense pleasure of presenting to the Apple Dayton group, a right proper little MUG about 45 minutes outside of Cincinnati, OH. During my Elements tips & tricks session, a gentleman asked me how to stick a photo inside text. I could have *sworn* I had a tutorial on that already so I popped upon my website confidently, grinned smugly as the Elements Tutorial index loaded, and guess what? It wasn't there. Turns out, I had written one in Photoshop CS2, but not Elements. Yipes!

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Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Ordering business cards online
Fade to White Mysteries of Unsharp Mask
Soft Edges Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! Scanning Secrets
QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator Fast uploading
Blur Baby Blur! How to create an animated 3D gif
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1 How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide
Correcting shadows and highlights Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
Portrait Popper Getting "Smart" with GoLive
Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field
How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect Creating a Circuit Board Face
How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2 Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
Fall Leaf Photo Frame How to design business cards in Photoshop
Playful Panoramas Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color
Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp!
Printing color separations in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
Fabulous Fades Pick a New Picker
Creating Coloring Book Art Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring
The No-Name Photo Effect Livin' La Vida Levels
Fabulous Feathers Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld Holiday Cards

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