By Matt Kloskowski  ·  August 19th, 2007

Let’s look at how to create an over-saturated, cross-processed, and high-contrast image otherwise known as Lomography-style photography (or “Lomo” photography).

By Lesa Snider  ·  August 19th, 2007

Reproduce the carved-image look inside Photoshop Elements.

By Rich Harris  ·  August 19th, 2007

With a little help from Photoshop Elements, we can turn this photo into an ink-and watercolor rendering.

By Larry Becker  ·  August 19th, 2007

Several years ago I attended a class where author and photographer Scott Kelby taught how to use just about any picture to create a modern, European abstract image. It’s a cool effect; here’s a variation to create one with a complementary background.

By Larry Becker  ·  July 5th, 2007

In my job, I see all kinds of digital photos that attempt to simulate watercolor paintings by simply using the Watercolor filter, but I’ve found that eliminating the strong black edges helps create a more realistic watercolor effect.

By Pauline Washburn  ·  July 5th, 2007

Virtual painting is a fantastic (and surprisingly easy) way to take a photograph and make it look like a painting.

By Dave Cross  ·  May 4th, 2007

Dave shows you a short and sweet technique for making a poster out of your image.

By Terry Noonan  ·  April 6th, 2007

Here, we’ll take a picture of some garden variety cherries and create wall-hanging material from it by lifting some layers, then spinning and colorizing them.

By Lesa Snider  ·  April 6th, 2007

In this tutorial you’ll create a high-contrast photo, color to taste, duplicate it a few times, and recolor.

By Irene O'Neill  ·  February 20th, 2007

Here’s how you can digitally distress your layouts to get this grungy look that’s a popular scrapbooking trend.

By Rich Harris  ·  February 20th, 2007

Sometimes you just want to have a little fun, and nothing says fun quite like taking crayon scratchboard drawings like the ones you did as a kid and bringing them into the digital age.

By William J. Meyer  ·  January 6th, 2007

Here’s how I fashioned dionaea muscipula britannia from a series of digital photos, eventually turning my friend into a hapless victim of a giant carnivorous plant!

By Dave Cross  ·  December 29th, 2006

Dave shows you how to use a combination of filters to pull off a painterly image.

By Dave Cross  ·  September 12th, 2006

Dave shows you some of the art effects options available in Elements 5.

By Rick Sammon  ·  August 31st, 2006

In Adobe Photoshop Elements, there’s a few ways to colorize a picture, but let’s go over the most useful way I’ve discovered. It’s fun, easy, and creative.

By Dave Cross  ·  August 11th, 2006

Turn a photo into an oil painting.

By Dave Cross  ·  June 30th, 2006

Here is Dave’s rendition of a very popular technique.

By Syndee Holt  ·  May 3rd, 2006

I can’t draw. I’m serious: if I had to draw a portrait of someone, it would look like a bad stick figure. Fortunately, Photoshop Elements makes me look like a talented sketch artist.

By Sara Froehlich  ·  March 24th, 2006

Here’s how to add a cool burned-in edge to an old photo (or a new one, if you prefer).

By Larry Becker  ·  February 16th, 2006

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.