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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

Selecting Frizzy Hair

Use the Extract Filter for complex selections

Does the thought of isolating (also referred to as "knocking out") a person in a photo with big hair fill you with dread? Never fear for the Extract filter is here!

Let's take this image of a frizzy-haired hippy I snatched from iStockphoto. To change the background, it would mean creating a selection around the hippy dude and his frighteningly frizzy hair. Yes, there are third-party plug-ins who'd make haste of this task for a price, but what if I don't want to spend the extra money? I can turn to the Extract filter for help instead.

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Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1 How to make your text see-through Hollow Text
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight!
Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise Color Shifting Made Easy Color Shifting Made Easy
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1 Lines of All Kinds
Classy Thumbnails Creative Combinations, Pt. 1
Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Fire It Up!
Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
Getting "Smart" with GoLive How to change the default email client in Tiger
Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 2 How to change the color of drop shadows Shadow Dancing
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop
Mastering Multiply A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2 Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop
Removing antennas and power lines Spot Healing Brush to the Rescue! How to create an animated 3D gif
Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2 The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld
Retouching People Joys of Optimizing JPEGs
The Basics of Design Recreating Apple's iWeb photo reflection effect Realistic Reflections
Quick Creative Collage Combining Images Creating duotones with Elements' QuickFix mode Delicious Duotones
Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame
Photo-Type Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch
Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens Fun with Blend Modes
Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
Fabulous Fades Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Super Sparkling Eyes
How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp! Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Playful Panoramas Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It

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