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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

Creative Photo Frames, Pt. 1

As I was perusing a recent issue of Elements Techniques -- a fantastic little magazine I started writing for over the winter -- I came across an article by Janee Aronoff on how to use Elements' Cookie Cutter shapes to frame a photo. It was a very different technique that I hadn't seen before and it looked really scrapbooky.

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Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring Gradient Map Your Way to a Beautiful Sunrise Enhancing the Sunrise
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Pick a New Picker
Let Your Graphics Do the Talking How to repaint an object using the Hue mode Quick Color Change
Tips for creating small web graphics Wrangling Web Graphics, Pt. 1 Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop
How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies Classy Thumbnails
Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color Banishing bags 'n blemishes The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers Pixel Super Sleuthing
Creating Favicons The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1
How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color Selective Color The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld
Creating Coloring Book Art Fall Leaf Photo Frame
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Printing color separations in Photoshop
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
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Correcting shadows and highlights
Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1 Picking the Perfect Palette
Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes Use your local library
How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos Get it Straight! Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1
Warp speed color cast correction Color Cast Be Gone! Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2
Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Pt. 3
Placing Text Behind an Object Fabulous Feathers
How to whiten teeth The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 Burn baby burn!
Retouching People Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3
How to add vector art to photos Easy Embellishments Polaroid in a Picture
Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Fixing Fringe How to create black teeth, red eyes, and green skin Halloween Fun with Elements
Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the Rule of Thirds Sensational Serigraphs, Pt. 1

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