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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

A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1

Demystifying Blending Modes

Shrouded in mystery, perched high atop the Layer palette in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements there sits a pop-up menu that's been baffling folks for ages. The menu of which I speak is called Blending Modes. You've probably clicked on it before and chosen a few of the strange words ontained therein only to be completely baffled by the effects, ranging from making everything dark or making everything light, to turning your image into an x-ray, to having absolutely no visible effect at all.

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