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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

Pixel Super Sleuthing

Sometimes it's next to impossible to figure out which bits of an image are the blackest black, and/or the whitest white. Picking the wrong area can produce "not so correct" color correction. So how can you find out which pixels are really black, and which pixels are really white? To become a real pixel super sleuth, you need to cozy up to the Threshold dialog box.

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Fire It Up! Posterizing your way to creativity Creating Cartoon Art
Photo Spotlight Let Your Graphics Do the Talking
Use your local library How to make a drive-free Desktop
How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator
Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2 Portrait Popper
How to make your text see-through Hollow Text How to add Lab Pop Intensifying Color
Learning to Love Levels Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges
The Skinny on Scanning Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast Goin' Grayscale
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3 Burn baby burn!
Correcting shadows and highlights Shallow depth of field Shallow depth of field
Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements Creative Combinations, Pt. 1
Creative Combinations, Pt. 2 Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2 Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes Let It Snow!
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Classy Thumbnails
How to fix an out-of-focus photo Filters To the Rescue! Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up!
Blur Baby Blur! Secret Layer Masks
Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1 How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers
Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens Super Funky Edges

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