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Learn how to use movement, blur and frozen motion to expand your photographic horizon.
The Enhance menu is full of commands that will automatically correct lighing, color and contrast.
Take an inside look at one of Elements’ most versatile tools, which is used for everything from creating backgrounds to darkening skies.
Matt shares one of his favorite techniques for sharpening landscape photos, using an edge mask created from the Find Edges filter.
Decorate your digital correspondence, website, or scrapbook pages with this distinctive touch. It’s easy to create, and infinitely customizable.
Mike Rodriguez shows you three tips for adding some extra space to the edges of a photo.
In our latest “quick tips” video, Mike Rodriguez shows you three ways to move one image into another image or other file inside Photoshop Elements.
Here’s an easy portrait-retouching method for adding depth and dimension to skin.
This video walks you through the options found in the Refine Edge command.
Matt shows us a cool lighting trick to enhance your photos, using a Gradient Fill adjustment layer.
It’s as if some of my photographs of the Pacific Northwest taunt me, asserting, “I can be edgy.” So, edgy it is, in three steps!
Using a drop shadow and white outline, you can create a 3D Polaroid pop-out effect with these easy steps.
Taking a subject from one photo and adding it to a new background is easy; making it believable is another story. In this advanced tutorial, Liz shows you how to create a great composite image by paying attention to the little details.
This companion piece to Liz Ness’ “Composite Master Class,” from the May/June issue, shows Liz’s method for creating the quick extraction of a subject from a background.
This is a companion to Diana Day’s “Grasp the Gradient Tool” article from the May/June 2011 issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques.
Here are a few exercises you can follow to learn more about the Gradient tool and some of the things you can do with it.
This short video shows how to access the nested tools in the Elements Toolbox. (Includes a Toolbox Shortcuts PDF.)
Ditch the Auto mode on your camera and learn how a subtle change in metering can make a big difference in your photos’ tones.
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