Home
photolesa.com
The creative tutorial home of image wrangler, Lesa Snider.

Step by step tutorials

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

Getting "Smart" with GoLive

One of the many reasons I switched from Dreamweaver to GoLive was its ability to use Smart Objects. Put simply, GoLive can enjoy a very special relationship with native Photoshop, Illustrator, and .pdf (Acrobat) files. This comes in super handy when you're resizing and optimizing web graphics.

Resizing a Smart Object file in GoLive doesn't mean your graphic gets resized by HTML code. Oh heavens no. GoLive generates a *new* graphic from the *original* native source file at the *new* pixel dimensions, without you dipping a single toe into the application from whence it came.

scoreless-slow
Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2 Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus Fast uploading
Pixel Super Sleuthing Creative Combinations, Pt. 2
Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames Classic Colorizing
How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Fall Leaf Photo Frame
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text Pick a New Picker
Lines of All Kinds How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up!
Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue!
Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1 Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect
How to change the default email client in Tiger QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator
Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp!
Portrait Popper The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2
Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes Let It Snow! How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers
Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements Use the Extract Filter for complex selections Selecting Frizzy Hair
Goin' Borderless! How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color
Photo-Type Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
Retouching People How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2 How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect
Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1
Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Super Silhouettes How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change
Creating Favicons Creating a Circuit Board Face

Pages
darkness