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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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Digital Beauty Shop

Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color

If you’re experimenting with color, an easy and nondestructive way to do it is to create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. The Hue/Saturatoin dialog box itself offers a friendly set of sliders that are easy and fun to play around with, and you don’t even have to select your object first. Because it’s an adjustment layer, the color change takes place on its own layer, leaving your original image unharmed. And since a layer mask tags along with it automatically, you can use it to hide the color change from certain parts of your image. What more could you ask for?

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Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1
How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3
Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1
Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It How to design business cards in Photoshop
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1 Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
The Basics of Design How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
Digital Plastic Surgery Crop City!
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos
Use your local library Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue!
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair Fabulous Feathers
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out
Fun with Elements Effects Goin' Borderless!
Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses
Fun with Blend Modes Burn baby burn!
Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop Photo-Type
Lines of All Kinds Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Fade to White The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images Picking the Perfect Palette
Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail
Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1 Retouching People
Photo Spotlight Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe

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