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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

Type Tricks

Rotating individual letters and intersecting text

Welcome to part 3 of the Photoshop: The Missing Maual Teaser series. Since I've been going back and forth with my editor getting the typography chapter in tip-top shape, I have yet another text tutorial for you. Unfortunately there's no equivalent in Elements, so this one is for Photoshop only.

There are a multitude of special effects that can be created with type that has been converted into a vector shape or path. Though the text becomes uneditable, the former type layer is morphed into a living, breathing, and resizable, distortable piece of art or editable path.

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Classic Colorizing Crop City!
Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People
Placing Text Behind an Object Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Polaroid in a Picture Retouching People
Mysteries of Unsharp Mask Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Creating a Circuit Board Face Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1

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