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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

Fixing Fringe

Filtering away edge haloes or fringe

I’ve been chief evangelist of iStockphoto.com for a couple of years now, though only last fall did I become an actual contributor to the stock library. My photography skills are really coming along and it’s thrilling when someone purchases one of my images (plus I get a kickback). The problem, however, is that it’s extremely frustrating/discouraging/heartbreaking to have a well-composed image rejected, especially for a problem I could have fixed before submitting.

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Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2 Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
Printing color separations in Photoshop Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
Livin' La Vida Levels How to design business cards in Photoshop
How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing Fire It Up!
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Web navigation tips
How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Selective Color Photo Effect How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus
Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
Fun with Blend Modes How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues
How to Create a Layer Mask in Elements Classic Colorizing
Soft Edges Portrait Popper
QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out Correcting shadows and highlights
Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4 Secret Layer Masks
How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art Fabulous Feathers
Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2 The Che-Guevara Effect
How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements Burn baby burn!
Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp!
Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It Give Your Photos an Edge
Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1
Fabulous Fades Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Fall Leaf Photo Frame Give your photo a film strip edge Festive Photo Frames
How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change
The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1 Pixel Super Sleuthing

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