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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

Polaroid in a Picture

"Wow!" your friends will say. "How'd you do that?" will soon follow. These are the exclamations you'll hear while showing off your new Elements chops with this slightly magical and creative photo effect.

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Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts
Learning to Love Levels Photo Spotlight
Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites Fire It Up!
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue!
Painted Edges in Elements Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies Super Funky Edges
Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2 The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2
Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
Creative Combinations, Pt. 1 QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator
Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color Classic Colorizing
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking Soft Edges
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2 How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change
Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper Digital Plastic Surgery
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Printing color separations in Photoshop Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide The Skinny on Scanning
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1 Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Playful Panoramas Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe
Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2

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