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Enhance your photos in hundreds of different ways, including painting with light, creating vignettes, soft focus effects, and more.

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Gallery Photos

By Dave Cross  ·  March 31st, 2006

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Dave Cross shows you how to add gallery-like finishing touches to your photographs.

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Using a Gradient Map to Create Black-and-White Images

By Lynette Kent  ·  March 12th, 2006

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Try this technique to transform your photo to black and white. You can even use the same method to give your photo a Sepia tone or other tinted look.

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Adding Finishing Touches

By Dave Cross  ·  March 6th, 2006

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Add finishing touches to your photos.

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Using Motion to Add Interest

By Dave Cross  ·  February 24th, 2006

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Dave shows you how to add the sense of motion to your photos.

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Correcting Color Casts

By Dave Cross  ·  February 3rd, 2006

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Correcting the colorcast on your photos.

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Showing Off Your Photos, Part 3

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  January 28th, 2006

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Here are a few techniques to really show off your photos

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Showing Off Your Photos, Part 2

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  January 20th, 2006

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Here are a few techniques to really show off your photos

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Showing Off Your Photos, Part 1

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  January 13th, 2006

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Here are a few techniques to really show off your photos

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Hue Adjustment

By Dave Cross  ·  January 12th, 2006

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Quickly change the color with a hue adjustment.

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When A Quick Fix Isn’t

By Jan Kabili  ·  January 2nd, 2006

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could fix your image with the click of a button? With quick fix, it sometimes is that simple. But the automatic Quick Fix commands don’t always offer the targeted controls you need to adjust individual areas of a photograph.

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Removing Shadows

By Dave Cross  ·  December 28th, 2005

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Dave shows you how to remove shadows from your photos.

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Stitching Together Images

By Dave Cross  ·  November 23rd, 2005

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How to quickly stitch your photos together.

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Too Much Flash Or Wish That You Hadn’t?

By Scott Kelby & Dave Cross  ·  November 1st, 2005

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What do you do with images when you’ve used too much flash or you shouldn’t have used flash at all? Here are two quick and easy techniques that you can apply to correct these common problems.

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Mask Paste

By Dave Cross  ·  September 23rd, 2005

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Check out a great way to create a masking effect.

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Photo Page

By Dave Cross  ·  September 9th, 2005

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Make a family photo a little more special.

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Selectively Fixing Exposure Problems

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  September 1st, 2005

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Mastering selection tools is one of the most essential and powerful aspects of Photoshop Elements.

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One Photo Collage

By Dave Cross  ·  September 1st, 2005

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If there was ever a reason to shoot your photos at the highest possible quality, this is it: the option to turn one photo into a collage using a large and small version of the same image.

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Quick Portrait Retouching Techniques

By Dave Huss  ·  September 1st, 2005

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Here are two quick ways to soften a close-up photo: one using the Eraser tool and the other using layer masks and the Reduce Noise filter.

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Selective Sharpening and Blurring

By Dave Cross  ·  August 12th, 2005

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Use layers for selective sharpening and blurring.

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Changing Backgrounds

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  August 12th, 2005

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Matt shows you how to change backgrounds.

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