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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

Ordering business cards online

It's that crazy/magical time of year again; time to prepare for Macworld Expo, San Francisco. In a couple of weeks the Mac faithful, developers, trainers, authors, and vendors will converge upon Moscone Convention Center en masse to see what's hot and what's not. For me, Macworld prep this year means getting new business cards made *fast* and now that they're in my hot little hands, I've got a great online source to pass along to you.

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Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2 Web navigation tips
Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color
Fun with Elements Effects Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Creating a Circuit Board Face Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Using vector shapes to add a watermark Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 1
How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop
Creating Favicons Using blend modes and masking to lighten shadows Lighten Up!
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
The Basics of Design Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old
Holiday Cards Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out
Mysteries of Unsharp Mask The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction Give Your Photos an Edge
Burn baby burn! How to create an animated 3D gif
Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide
How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
The Skinny on Scanning Soft Edges
Goin' Borderless! How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing
How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls Getting "Smart" with GoLive
Scanning Secrets Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses

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