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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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Get it Straight!

How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos

Welcome to the second installment of the Photoshop Missing Manual teaser series. This week's chapter was all about the Crop tool, and so is this week's tip. Enjoy!

There’s a reason professional photos look so darn good. Besides the fancy camera, expensive lenses, titanium tripod, artificial lighting, and post-processing voodoo, they’re composed and/or cropped extremely well. Cropping is a means of eliminating distracting elements by repositioning the subject. Good crops accentuate the subject, drawing the viewer’s eye; and bad crops, well, are just bad.

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Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Mysteries of Unsharp Mask
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2 How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
Creating Favicons Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements How to design business cards in Photoshop
Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
Use your local library Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges
Creating Coloring Book Art Learning to Love Levels
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop How to make your text see-through Hollow Text
The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1 Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks
Placing Text Behind an Object Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1 Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites
How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change Crop City!
Fire It Up! Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges Give Your Photos an Edge
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer
Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3
Fun with Blend Modes Photo Spotlight
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People
Fabulous Feathers How to create an animated 3D gif
Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop Fade to White

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