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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

Goin' Borderless!

Imagine gazing upon the perfect picture on your screen. You've cropped the distracting bits out of the background, color corrected it to perfection, smoothed a wrinkle here and zapped a bag there, and last but not least you've applied just the right amount of sharpening. It's breathtaking and quite possibly the best shot you've ever snapped in your life. Your skin begins to tingle, goosebumps travel up your spine and you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the photo must live in print!

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Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up!
How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments How to design business cards in Photoshop
Correcting shadows and highlights Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect Fade to White
Livin' La Vida Levels Polaroid in a Picture
Creative Combinations, Pt. 2 Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide
Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes Placing Text Behind an Object
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Learning to Love Levels
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips Fall Leaf Photo Frame
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2 Secret Layer Masks
Creating Coloring Book Art How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images How to make a drive-free Desktop
Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2 Fun with Blend Modes
Classy Thumbnails Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus Mysteries of Unsharp Mask
Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop The Basics of Design
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2 Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
Fabulous Feathers How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue!
Retouching People Pick a New Picker
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text Fast uploading

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