Photoshop Elements has a number of cool built-in effects, including the ability to create a vignette effect automatically. Just make a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool (M), and then from the Styles and Effects palette, choose Effects in the…
Here’s a pretty cool way to show off your images: make “fake” slide mounts. It’s pretty simple to do, and you can save the mount for use over and over again.
Photoshop Elements allows you lots of different ways to convert any photograph into a natural looking art image that looks as if it were painted. Simply applying a filter or two from the filter gallery can give you all kinds of impressive artistic images from a digital photo. This technique produces results you can’t get from simply applying an artistic filter.
Here are the results of the two options mentioned in “Backscreening Variations,” on page 18 of Photoshop Elements Techniques, Volume 2, Number 1.
When you’re adjusting an image, one of the best methods is to use an adjustment layer. Here’s an overview of the reasons why you should use them, rather than making adjustments directly to the image itself. An adjustment layer is…
Here’s a quick look at the different types of adjustment layers available inside Elements.
Oops, I was going to do a “part two” on making your photos look old, wasn’t I? Sorry about that, here it is: creating “old” scotch tape to add to your “old” photos.
A very popular effect is to add TV scan lines to an image (to create the look of a photo on a TV screen) for a “high-tech” effect, or simply because it’s “cool.”
Can’t we all just get along? The answer is yes! Mac users can now get along just fine with PC users when it comes to using Photoshop Elements, because the playing field is now level.
I’m sure you know that we can create different layers in Photoshop Elements, which allows us to experiment with the position of different objects and their transparencies. Did you know that you can also do this in Premiere Elements?
Each issue we feature a little-known filter on the back cover. This is just a quick overview to show you what a filter can do. This time we’ll highlight what the Find Edges filter produces
Creating a personalized greeting card is one of the nicest things you can do for someone you care about. When you do this, you’re not only making someone feel special, you’re also being creative, which makes you feel good too.
In a previous issue, we showed how to make a one-photo collage; the only ‘catch’ was that your photo had to be very high quality. In this slight variation of the technique, we’ll demonstrate how just about any photo can be made into a simple two-image collage.
If you thought that all your photo printer could do was print photos, look again.
Creating a photo strip is one way to sneak more photos onto a page without overwhelming the design.
Selection tools and the Select menu, part 2
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