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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

Combining Images

Quick Creative Collage

I'm in the throes of creating some killer new video training on both Photoshop CS3 and Elements 6 for the good folks at KelbyTraining.com. That being said, I'm spending a ton of time parked in front of the computer and very little time perched atop my motorcycle. I obviously have no choice but to start using photos of my motorcycle in tutorials (I do hope you understand!).

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Correcting shadows and highlights How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes
Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1
Super Funky Edges Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color Livin' La Vida Levels
Placing Text Behind an Object Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools
Pick a New Picker Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks
Digital Plastic Surgery How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements
Photo-Type How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
Learning to Love Levels How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers
Classy Thumbnails Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Using vector shapes to add a watermark Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 1 Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair
Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles
Creating duotones with Elements' QuickFix mode Delicious Duotones Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2
Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone! Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts
Goin' Borderless! The Che-Guevara Effect
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Lines of All Kinds Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Blur Baby Blur! Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2 Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles Ordering business cards online

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