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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 Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring

Digital Camera Belly Ring

David Pogue called me the other day and needed some graphics for his keynote presentation at PhotoPlus. He was speaking about the future of digital cameras and wanted some funny graphics representing a futuristic vision of cameras built into unlikely objects, such as, well, a belly ring.

There are three very cool things which occurred during this project, henceforth why I'm sharing it with you.

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Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds Burn baby burn!
Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1
Goin' Borderless! Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2
Fabulous Fades Pick a New Picker
Creating Favicons Creating duotones with Elements' QuickFix mode Delicious Duotones
Photo Spotlight How to make your text see-through Hollow Text
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! Creative Combinations, Pt. 1
Soft Edges Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1
Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch
Making a macabre collage with Darker Color A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5 Secret Layer Masks
Holiday Cards How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Web navigation tips
Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks Getting "Smart" with GoLive
Livin' La Vida Levels Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone!
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Polaroid in a Picture Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
Portrait Popper Classic Colorizing
How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame

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