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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

Ordering business cards online

It's that crazy/magical time of year again; time to prepare for Macworld Expo, San Francisco. In a couple of weeks the Mac faithful, developers, trainers, authors, and vendors will converge upon Moscone Convention Center en masse to see what's hot and what's not. For me, Macworld prep this year means getting new business cards made *fast* and now that they're in my hot little hands, I've got a great online source to pass along to you.

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How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies Super Funky Edges
Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale Making a macabre collage with Darker Color A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5
Creating Favicons Fun with Elements Effects
Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Fast uploading Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3
Fire It Up! Photo Spotlight
Picking the Perfect Palette Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Classic Colorizing Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements Goin' Borderless!
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Placing Text Behind an Object Playful Panoramas
Portrait Popper Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
Pick a New Picker Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1
Crop City! Retouching People
Two-step pro portrait studio effect Fast Photo Spotlight How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field Lines of All Kinds
Photo-Type Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2 Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer How to design business cards in Photoshop
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper
The Basics of Design Fade to White
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles

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