We’ve posted Wendy’s latest Christmas card tutorial—her sixth—in the Tutorials section of the Web site.
If you’re like me, and woefully behind on your photo gifts and cards, don’t forget to check out our list of Christmas- and holiday-themed projects. There are lots of great ideas and tips sprinkled throughout the site, all linked from that page.
Just a quick little post for today. We’ve gotten some nice feedback on our calendar projects, and today, when I was zipping around the Web, I saw this tutorial on CreativePro.com: “Create a Gift-Worthy Calendar in Photoshop.” What’s cool about this one is that the templates are for mini calendars that fit inside a CD jewel case.
Even though the tutorial is for the full version of Photoshop, you can just use the instructions from the Nov/Dec issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques to place your photos.
Shutter Sisters, where the original templates come from, is a great Web site, with some excellent photos from inspirational women photographers.
It’s been a busy few weeks here at Photo One/Elements Techniques. We’ve shipped the magazine to the printer, posted a bunch of tutorials and videos, and today, my November 2009 Letter from the Editor email newsletter went out, chock full of links and fun stuff for the holidays.
The latest issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques will start mailing to subscribers this week, and you can find the PDF, sample files and additional tutorials on the November/December 2009 magazine page. There you’ll find:
A set of six different 2010 calendar templates to go with our Fun & Easy Calendars project;
A tutorial from Mike Rodriguez on using the Shape tools for non-standard selections;
Links, examples and downloads for Diana Day’s Enchanting Fairy-Tale Effect article; and
The sample files for Lesa Snider’s Selective Blur and Sharpen tutorial, so you can to follow along.
Enjoy, and don’t forget that December 2 is the Subscriber Showcase deadline for the January/February 2010 issue.
We just finished editing the Nov/Dec issue of the magazine, and I am working feverishly on catching up with a backlog of tutorials and extras for the Web site. The first, Making a Quilting Block Flower, and its companion, Making Leaves, are now available in the Scrapbooking section.
Look for two more tutorials in the next few days. For those of you looking to get a jump start on holiday gifts, I should also have a PDF of next issue’s “Make a calendar” feature online later this week.
The magazine is being prepped and printed as I type this; copies will start mailing around the 13th of November.
As we head into the holiday season, one of the nicest gifts you can give to people is a photo calendar, and we’ve posted a new tutorial from Wendy that shows you how to create a quick one-page calendar with one of your photos. Wendy’s created a nice set of templates for the tutorial, which you can download from the site (file link: Wendy’s-2010-Calendar-Templates.zip).
As part of an article for the November/December issue of the magazine, I’m also working on a set of calendar templates for individual months; I’ll post those templates here on the site in a week or so for those people who just want to get started.
All of the pages for installing actions into Photoshop Elements 5 through 7 have been posted in the Print Extras section of the Web site. We’ve added a main actions resource page—with Elements action developer links and instructions—but if you just want to cut to the chase, here are the installation pages for:
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Part 2 of Wendy’s latest tutorial, “Making a bow,” has been posted in the Scrapbook section of the Web site. Also, with the September/October 2009 issue slated to start hitting the mail stream this week, we posted the first set of print extras for the issue, including Matt’s Creative Panoramas video from 2006 and Mike Rodriguez’s Layers 101 article from earlier this year. In addition, we’ve posted the Web links to some of our favorite action developers, included in Diana Day’s excellent “Getting in on the action” article in the issue.
Today, we posted part 1 of Wendy’s latest tutorial, “Making a bow,” in the Scrapbook section of the Web site. We’ve had a few requests for this specific article, and we’re very happy to present it. It is a bit more complicated than our regular fare, so we’ve split it into two parts. (The second part should be posted this weekend.) Enjoy!
This week, I sent out my monthly email newsletter (well, it’s supposed to be monthly!) to subscribers. If you didn’t get it in your inbox, check your spam box or your email preferences at the bottom of your Subscriber Profile. Read more »
Following on last week’s post, we have added two more tutorials from Wendy to the Scrapbooking section: Making Tiled Paper, and Making a Tied Ribbon. Even if you aren’t interested in scrapbooking, the tiled paper tutorial gives you a quick way to create a cool background that can be used for lots of projects, like cards and other photo creations. Check them out!
We just finished the July/August issue of the magazine, and we are finally catching up on a backlog of Web tutorials. We have a few to post from Wendy, the first of which, Changing Day into Night, went up today. Read more »
The May email newsletter to subscribers—from yours truly—went out this afternoon. If you don’t receive it, and think you should have, there are two things to look for: Read more »
Over in the Elements Village forums, I’ve posted information on how to submit an image or photo for the Subscriber Showcase section of the magazine. We’re looking for images that you’ve created using some of the techniques in the magazine, as well as those from videos or the tutorials here on the Web site. Read more »
As I promised last week, there are four brand-new tutorials from Wendy Williams on the site:
We’ve updated the print extras for the May/June issue, including the sample files and other goodies for Johnny Vera’s “Four Times Johnny = Fun” article Read more »
We’ve added quite a bit to the Elements Techniques site in recent days, on top of all the new tutorials you can find in the Videos section. There are three new tutorials on the site, including two from Wendy Williams and one from Diana Day.
Here in the Subscriber Area, we’ve posted all 50 of Corey Barker’s Elements Killer Tips podcast series, which ran from mid-2007 through 2008. The videos run the gamut from tool tips to cool design ideas to using a Wacom tablet, and are a great complement to our other subscriber videos.
The March/April issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques is at the printer, and should be heading into the mailstream this week, which means you should be receiving it any time in the next three weeks (depending upon where you are in the world).
I’m happy to announce that one of the best Elements books on the planet has been updated for Version 7.0 and is available now. The Photoshop Elements 7 Book for Digital Photographers is written by our own Matt Kloskowski and his Photoshop guru buddy, Scott Kelby. It’s a great introduction to Photoshop Elements, offering clear-cut explanations of key features and some great tips for fixing and presenting your photos.
If you're looking for the quickest way to get up to speed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (or earlier versions, both Windows and Mac), check out our "Learn Elements Today" training course DVD. Our gurus will take you inside all aspects of Elements.
Watch the first two videos here:
