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Step by step tutorials

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

Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts

Thanks to Marc Rizzolo for asking about keyboard shortcuts, and thus giving me the idea to post a few of my favorites from Photoshop and Elements. The terrific thing is that most of these apply to all Adobe apps. Gotta love that!

And if these shortcuts don't light your fire, I'm going to show you how to make Photoshop build you a web page of *all* of them... all by itself. Here we go:

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Holiday Cards Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1
How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect
Picking the Perfect Palette Creating a Circuit Board Face
Digital Plastic Surgery Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1 Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2 Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
Painted Edges in Elements Lines of All Kinds
How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements
Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges Placing Text Behind an Object
Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts The Skinny on Scanning
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools Goin' Borderless!
Creative Combinations, Pt. 2 Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone!
Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1 The Basics of Design
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text Retouching People
Fabulous Feathers QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator
Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue!
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos
Fall Leaf Photo Frame How to create an animated 3D gif
Classy Thumbnails Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Secret Layer Masks The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles

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