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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.

If there's something that you'd like to see written up, please feel free to let me know

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How to make your text see-through

Layer styles are great for adding finishing touches to your designs and they can really make text and graphical elements pop off your page. They’re also extremely flexible—they change as your layer content changes, they’re fully editable, savable, and so on. Since they appear on their own layer, they’re nondestructive and when you edit the content of your layer, the style updates automatically.

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Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2 Fabulous Fades
Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges Fast uploading
Getting "Smart" with GoLive Fade to White
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images Blur Baby Blur!
Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
The Basics of Design Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction Mysteries of Unsharp Mask
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail
How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements
How to change the default email client in Tiger How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
Playful Panoramas Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2
Classy Thumbnails Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue!
Fall Leaf Photo Frame Creating a Circuit Board Face
How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise
Soft Edges Lines of All Kinds
Printing color separations in Photoshop Fun with Blend Modes
The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1 Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2
Goin' Borderless! Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1
How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements The Skinny on Scanning
Holiday Cards Digital Plastic Surgery

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