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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

Festive Photo Frames

Give your photo a film strip edge

Fun photo frames are all around us. They exist literally everywhere and are lots of fun to create. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to take an image with interesting edges and place a photo inside of it. The trick lies in using the Threshold adjustment to make it black and white, thus turning it into the perfect frame.

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Fast uploading Correcting shadows and highlights
Picking the Perfect Palette Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes
Fun with Blend Modes Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
Getting "Smart" with GoLive Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words
Classic Colorizing Burn baby burn!
Playful Panoramas Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1
Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 Placing Text Behind an Object
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Soft Edges Fade to White
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Using blend modes and masking to lighten shadows Lighten Up!
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail
Secret Layer Masks Goin' Borderless!
Use your local library How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus
How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Crop City! Retouching People
Portrait Popper How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame The No-Name Photo Effect
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles How to create an animated 3D gif
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1
Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Fabulous Feathers How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
Polaroid in a Picture Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe

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