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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

Selective Color Photo Effect

How to create a partial color photo in just two steps!

What's the simplest way to highlight a certain portion of a photograph? Something that will really draw the viewer's eye to a given area?

As you can imagine, there are a gazillion answers to this question; however, today I'm going to share with you what I truly believe to be the quickest and easiest method: Make part of the photo color and the rest of it black and white. It's a really interesting photo effect, and you'll be amazed at how quick and easy this effect can be to create. Plus, this technique works exactly the same in Photoshop Elements.

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Painted Edges in Elements How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue!
Give Your Photos an Edge Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Soft Edges Learning to Love Levels
Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 Let Your Graphics Do the Talking
Pixel Super Sleuthing How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies
The Che-Guevara Effect How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus
Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone! Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame
Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2
Playful Panoramas The No-Name Photo Effect
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Digital Plastic Surgery
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Creating Favicons
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1
The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1 How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Livin' La Vida Levels Burn baby burn!
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1 How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2 The Basics of Design
Picking the Perfect Palette How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Getting "Smart" with GoLive
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame

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