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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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Fun with Elements Effects

Photoshop Elements is such a wonderfully friendly program to use, though with all the little flippy triangles, buttons, and so on, it can be a challenge to find some of the built-in effects. Today we'll do a little digging and take a peek at how you can easily turn a full-color photo into an aged sepia tint, complete with a burned-in (darkened) edge vignette. Read on!

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Fun with Elements Effects Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words
Super Funky Edges Fabulous Fades
Burn baby burn! Fun with Blend Modes
Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2 Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise
How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2 Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Scanning Secrets Classic Colorizing
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Photo Spotlight
Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Using blend modes and masking to lighten shadows Lighten Up!
How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2 Creating a Circuit Board Face
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1 Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone!
How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Mastering Multiply A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect
Creative Combinations, Pt. 1 Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue!
The Che-Guevara Effect Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up!
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field
The No-Name Photo Effect Polaroid in a Picture
Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair
Picking the Perfect Palette Secret Layer Masks
Mysteries of Unsharp Mask Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People

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