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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

Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2

Creating a watermark action

Welcome back! Last week we looked at how to embed a watermark and copyright information into your images before you email or post them online. As easy as the process is--using the copyright symbol Custom Shape Tool plus your name as text--it's not exactly fast.

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The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Fabulous Fades
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text Retouching People
Creating Coloring Book Art Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Pixel Super Sleuthing
How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers How to make a drive-free Desktop
How to design business cards in Photoshop Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2 Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs The Basics of Design
How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements The No-Name Photo Effect
Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds Web navigation tips
Goin' Borderless! Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking Secret Layer Masks
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 The Skinny on Scanning
Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction
Give Your Photos an Edge Picking the Perfect Palette
How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! Two-step pro portrait studio effect Fast Photo Spotlight
Printing color separations in Photoshop Super Funky Edges
Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1 Learning to Love Levels

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