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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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How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Correcting shadows and highlights
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Polaroid in a Picture
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles Classic Colorizing
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Blur Baby Blur! How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Retouching People Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1
Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos
Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes Let It Snow! How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old
Fade to White How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp!
Printing color separations in Photoshop Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field
How to change the default email client in Tiger Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out
The No-Name Photo Effect Picking the Perfect Palette
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise
Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites
How to make a drive-free Desktop How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail
Fun with Elements Effects Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone!
Creating Coloring Book Art How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies
Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2 Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
Photo-Type Crop City!

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