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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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The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2

Last week we chatted about pixels and resolution, and the importance of deciding what an image's purpose in life shall be. "To print, or not to print," that was the question. This week, I'll show you how to navigate inside the Image Size dialog box, enabling you to tweak image resolution and sizes at will. Though this tutorial is done in Photoshop Elements, the steps are nearly identical in the full-blown version of Photoshop.

To illustrate how tweaking the resolution of an image affects its document or physical size, let's take a peek at resizing a web image.

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Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
Ordering business cards online Creating a Circuit Board Face
How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change Web navigation tips
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Creating Favicons
Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes Creating Coloring Book Art
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Using vector shapes to add a watermark Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 1
Creative Combinations, Pt. 2 Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2 Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes Let It Snow!
The Skinny on Scanning How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight!
The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1 The No-Name Photo Effect
Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1 Placing Text Behind an Object
Fabulous Fades Quick Creative Collage Combining Images
Give Your Photos an Edge Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color Fun with Elements Effects
Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size Two-step pro portrait studio effect Fast Photo Spotlight
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues How to make a drive-free Desktop
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls How to make your text see-through Hollow Text
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1 Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1 How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges
Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles
Secret Layer Masks Goin' Borderless!
Printing color separations in Photoshop Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens

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