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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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Color Shifting Made Easy

Color Shifting Made Easy

I took a picture of a gorgeous Stingray not long ago at the Corvette Museum in Kentucky. The shot turned out beautifully, though, what if I wanted to change the car color to something else? It'd be easy enough if the turquoise was solid, but the car is shiny and contains reflections. You'd think making this car a bright purple would be a time-consuming and frustratingly tedious job. Not so my friends. I'm going to show you a quick and easy way to make this car any color I want, all the while preserving the reflections, plus the gray Stingray logo and air intake vents.

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Burn baby burn! Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Let Your Graphics Do the Talking
Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1
Cookie Cutter tool + Custom Shapes = fun photo frames Swirls of Summer Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words
Blur Baby Blur! QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator
The Skinny on Scanning Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Fabulous Feathers
The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1 Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses
How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop
Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2 Placing Text Behind an Object
Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch
How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color The Che-Guevara Effect
How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes Let It Snow!
Classic Colorizing The No-Name Photo Effect
Creative Combinations, Pt. 1 Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Fall Leaf Photo Frame
Fire It Up! Making a macabre collage with Darker Color A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5
Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 1 Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1
How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone! Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
Picking the Perfect Palette Lines of All Kinds
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue!

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