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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

Quick Polaroid Frame

Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame

I have the attention span of a gnat. Seriously. I get bored easily, I rarely enjoy leftovers, and I make faces when I'm forced to do the same thing over and over again. That's why you'll see me using different frames -- edge effects, rather -- on photos throughout this site. I'll do the Black Hairline Pixel Edge thing for a bit, followed by the Soft Fluffy Feathery edge thing for a while, and I've even been known to hop over to iStockphoto and download real picture frames to plop photos into. Just anything to jazz things up.

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Making a macabre collage with Darker Color A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5 Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction Photo-Type
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Fire It Up!
Correcting shadows and highlights Retouching People
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking Two-step pro portrait studio effect Fast Photo Spotlight
Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts
How to make a drive-free Desktop Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Holiday Cards The Che-Guevara Effect
Fun with Blend Modes Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images Give Your Photos an Edge
Creative Combinations, Pt. 2 Use your local library
Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue!
Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail
Creating Favicons Soft Edges
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1
How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1
Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2 Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair Goin' Borderless!
Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Using vector shapes to add a watermark Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 1 Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Getting "Smart" with GoLive
Portrait Popper Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes

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