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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

Enhancing the Sunrise

Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise

Not much has gone on in the way of travel since I got back from San Francisco for Macworld Expo. That being said, my husband and I did drive to Long Island, NY this past Friday to shoot the Fire Island Lighthouse at dawn the following morning.

However, going out specifically for a photo shoot is a rather new experience for us, and this one taught me several things:

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How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges The Che-Guevara Effect
Mysteries of Unsharp Mask Goin' Borderless!
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair Learning to Love Levels
Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art Printing color separations in Photoshop
Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop
Polaroid in a Picture Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
Pixel Super Sleuthing QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator
Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
Super Funky Edges Creating a Circuit Board Face
Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
Ordering business cards online Retouching People
The Basics of Design Making a macabre collage with Darker Color A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5
Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1
Fire It Up! How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3
Portrait Popper How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
Pick a New Picker Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring
Fall Leaf Photo Frame Quick Creative Collage Combining Images
Fast uploading Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Photo-Type Give Your Photos an Edge
Fun with Blend Modes Classy Thumbnails
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 How to design business cards in Photoshop
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change

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