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All sorts of special things you can create for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Halloween and more.

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Create a Custom Cover for Your Holiday Book

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  December 12th, 2011

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Matt offers up some ways to get the creative juices flowing by making your own custom cover inside Photoshop Elements to replace the stock ones offered by the online book services.

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Design Your Own Photo Card

By Diana Day  ·  October 26th, 2011

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For holiday cards that express your unique personality, skip the templates. We’ll show you how to design custom greeting cards.

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Seasonal calendar pages

By Elizabeth  ·  October 7th, 2011

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Last week we released our yearly calendar templates, complete with a new, seasonal design. This week we’re releasing three new page templates just for Photoshop Elements, using that seasonal style.

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Create Haunting Halloween Images

By Liz Ness  ·  August 24th, 2011

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Explore the more devious side of Elements with three fun photo effects, including alien eyes, ghostly apparitions, and babies with laser vision.

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Instant Holiday Photo Card

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  December 16th, 2010

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Forgot to get that holiday photo card done? Need one quick? Matt shows you how to spruce up an older photo with a seasonal element.

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Online Resources for Seasonal Cards

By Liz Ness  ·  December 7th, 2010

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Liz shares a list of online sources for custom-designed and standard holiday photo cards. What are your favorites?

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Basic Tags for Advent or Anytime

By Liz Ness  ·  November 30th, 2010

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Liz shares a project for basic tags for Advent Calendars or anytime.

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Picture-Perfect Gift Tags

By Liz Ness  ·  November 24th, 2010

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Show off your crafty side by transforming favorite photos into personalized gift tags.

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Making a Valentine Sack Topper

By Wendy Williams  ·  January 29th, 2010

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This year I am going to make little sack toppers for a Valentine’s Day party we are having and I thought that I would share the technique with you.

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Making a Christmas Card, No. 6

By Wendy Williams  ·  December 2nd, 2009

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This is the sixth in Wendy Williams’ series of Christmas card tutorials.

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Christmas and holiday-themed projects

By Rick LePage  ·  December 1st, 2009

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Over the years, we’ve produced quite a few Christmas- and holiday-themed projects, in the magazine, in videos, and in Web tutorials. Here’s a complete list of all the projects we’ve done.

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Making a Christmas Card, No. 5

By Wendy Williams  ·  December 1st, 2009

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It has been a few years since I last did a tutorial on making a Christmas card, so I thought that this year I would do a couple more. Here is the first one; the second one will follow shortly….

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Making a Christmas Stocking

By Wendy Williams  ·  November 13th, 2009

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Use Wendy’s easy instructions to create a lovely Christmas stocking for your cards and scrapbook pages.

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Making Holiday Borders

By Dave Cross  ·  November 9th, 2009

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It is not too early to start thinking about holiday cards. Dave shows you how to embellish yours.

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Quick & Easy Calendars From Templates

By Rick LePage  ·  November 2nd, 2009

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Calendars are fun gifts, and they’re easy to create within Elements. And, with our free calendar templates, you can crank out professional-looking, personalized calendars in no time.

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Add Dramatic Lighting to Your Images

By Dave Cross  ·  October 12th, 2009

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Follow along with Dave as he shows us how to experiment with the Lighting Effects filter.

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Making a Valentine Card

By Wendy Williams  ·  January 15th, 2009

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With Valentine’s Day coming up I thought that it would be a good time to make a Valentine’s Card. In this tutorial I will show you how to use a photograph to fill text, its quite a good effect and…

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Wrapping a Ribbon Around Text

By Dave Cross  ·  December 19th, 2008

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Follow along as Dave shows us how to intertwine a ribbon and text.

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Experimenting with the Extrude Filter

By Dave Cross  ·  December 12th, 2008

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Follow along with Dave as he plays with the Extrude Filter.

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Making Gift Tags

By Wendy Williams  ·  December 2nd, 2008

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Christmas is just around the corner, so I thought that I would show you how to make your own gift tags to add to all those presents that you have bought.

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