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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.

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Filters To the Rescue!

How to fix an out-of-focus photo

Alas, it’s true that there’s no magic fixer-upper that can take an out-of-focus image and make it look like it’s really in focus. That is, except for the Emboss filter. Technically it’s not really fixing the image and making it sharp, it’s merely bringing out the edges that are already there, which makes the photo look sharper than it really is.

You don’t want to do this on professional images that you sell, of course, but if you’ve got one in your personal collection that needs saving, here’s how to do get it done:

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Picking the Perfect Palette Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking Creating a Circuit Board Face
Classic Colorizing Classy Thumbnails
Fade to White Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair
Polaroid in a Picture How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction
Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
Web navigation tips How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp!
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld
Pixel Super Sleuthing Crop City!
Placing Text Behind an Object The Che-Guevara Effect
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges The Skinny on Scanning
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 How to make a drive-free Desktop
The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1 Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
The Basics of Design Playful Panoramas
QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Blur Baby Blur!
Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field

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