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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

Fading Color

Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale

To commemorate the first day of Fall, I thought I'd take this gorgeous photo of colorful leaves (plucked from iStockphoto of course!) and show you how to easily create a fade from the photo's original color to grayscale. Sound interesting?

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The No-Name Photo Effect Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1
Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips Goin' Borderless!
Retouching People Say hello to advanced red-eye and retouching tools
Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame Quick Polaroid Frame Holiday Cards
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Give Your Photos an Edge
How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Ordering business cards online Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2
Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Correcting shadows and highlights
Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words
Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art From Photo to Pencil Sketch
Web navigation tips How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Classy Thumbnails
Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses Super Funky Edges
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers The Basics of Design
How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color Stacked paper background Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 2
Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2 Fade to White
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls
Fabulous Feathers Lines of All Kinds
How to create a blurry background Post Selective Focus Classic Colorizing
Learning to Love Levels Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos 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 How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Super Sparkles
Painted Edges in Elements Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop
Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out

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