Matt shows you how to use the Spot Healing Brush and Elements’s Invert command to clean up sensor dust spots that can appear in your digital photos.
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Enhance your photos in hundreds of different ways, including painting with light, creating vignettes, soft focus effects, and more.
Matt shows off a “killer” alternative to Elements’ Convert to Black and White command, using Gradient Map and Levels adjustment layers.
Elizabeth shows you how to apply a hand-painted colorization effect to a photo.
Adjustment layers offer almost everything you need to subtly enhance the shots you put time and effort into capturing–all without altering a single pixel in your original image.
Dave Cross shows you an easy method for removing an annoying color cast on a subject.
Here’s a quick and easy way to change someone’s eye color with the Magic Wand tool, some simple selection tips and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
In the second part of his updated series, Matt Kloskowski demonstrates how he finishes HDR images inside Elements, including a nifty way for creating symmetry with architectural shots.
In the first of a two-part article, Matt shows off some of his HDR (high dynamic range) images, talks about how to get good HDR candidates, and shows how to process your bracketed exposures with HDRSoft’s Photomatix Pro HDR application.
The Enhance menu is full of commands that will automatically correct lighing, color and contrast.
Matt shares one of his favorite techniques for sharpening landscape photos, using an edge mask created from the Find Edges filter.
Here’s an easy portrait-retouching method for adding depth and dimension to skin.
Low-contrast, hazy photos are the bane of every vacationer’s travel photos, but with a little bit of work, you can make those landscapes pop.
Removing color casts with Levels is as easy as a couple of clicks, and our layer trick will help when that gray just can’t be found.
Make a portrait pop by adding a soft blur and a vignette effect with a few simple steps.
Even our furry friends need a little touch-up work sometimes. We’ll show you how to tackle some of the most common pet issues, including reflective eyes, flawed fur, and blurry shots.
This is the online companion article for Diana Day’s “Hand-Tinting Black and White Photos” article in the March/April 2011 issue.
Like the Boom Vignette, lighting with levels brings out your subjects in a subtle, but effective way.
Matt shows you an advanced technique for realistically softening skin in portraits.
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