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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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Digital Beauty Shop

Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color

If you’re experimenting with color, an easy and nondestructive way to do it is to create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. The Hue/Saturatoin dialog box itself offers a friendly set of sliders that are easy and fun to play around with, and you don’t even have to select your object first. Because it’s an adjustment layer, the color change takes place on its own layer, leaving your original image unharmed. And since a layer mask tags along with it automatically, you can use it to hide the color change from certain parts of your image. What more could you ask for?

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Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements Picking the Perfect Palette
The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1 Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges
How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Classy Thumbnails
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2
Portrait Popper Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field
Retouching People Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Lines of All Kinds Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Digital Plastic Surgery How to make a drive-free Desktop
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2 Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Fun with Elements Effects
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect Fun with Blend Modes
The Basics of Design Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
The Skinny on Scanning Classic Colorizing
Playful Panoramas Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1 Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts Placing Text Behind an Object
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld Painted Edges in Elements
Photo-Type Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator

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