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Step by step tutorials

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

Quick Polaroid Frame

Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame

I have the attention span of a gnat. Seriously. I get bored easily, I rarely enjoy leftovers, and I make faces when I'm forced to do the same thing over and over again. That's why you'll see me using different frames -- edge effects, rather -- on photos throughout this site. I'll do the Black Hairline Pixel Edge thing for a bit, followed by the Soft Fluffy Feathery edge thing for a while, and I've even been known to hop over to iStockphoto and download real picture frames to plop photos into. Just anything to jazz things up.

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How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! Holiday Cards
Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy Soft Edges
Digital Plastic Surgery How to design business cards in Photoshop
Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips Mysteries of Unsharp Mask
Scanning Secrets Fade to White
Correcting shadows and highlights Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
Fabulous Feathers Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2
How to create an animated 3D gif Getting "Smart" with GoLive
Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Creating Coloring Book Art Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone!
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes Let It Snow!
Pinching Flabby Chins Photoshopping People Fast uploading
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
Creating a Circuit Board Face How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements
Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2 Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1 Creating Favicons
How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop
How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color Retouching People
Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds The Che-Guevara Effect
Pixel Super Sleuthing Let Your Graphics Do the Talking
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale

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