Matt shows you how lens flare — something we often don’t want in our photos — can be a dynamic addition to your photos.
Video Tutorials
This is a list of all the video tutorials on our site, sorted by date. You can also view all of our downloadable PDF tutorials in a similar list, or all of the Web tutorials and articles.
Take some simple clip-art “doodles” and add a little bit of whimsy to photos of your kids and grandkids.
The Orton effect is a lovely technique that adds both sharpness and softness to your photos.
Mike Rodriguez shows you a technique to add a little bit of “mood” to those photos that seem a bit drab.
Matt uses the Magic Extractor tool and some quick layers work to create a cool picture frame from a stock photo.
Matt talks about why it’s more confusing to have two different versions of the same photo, and how you can easily create a batch of JPEGs if you need them for a project.
Work on your layer chops and create a cool composite effect with Corey’s technique.
Use the Camera Raw dialog box (even with JPEG images) to achieve a nice, high-key vintage effect on your photos.
Corey continues his series on adding fun design accents to your photos by picking a cool “swirly” graphic to use around the edges of the frame.
Hipstamatic is one of the hottest iPhone apps out there, and it gives a very cool cross-processed, funky, ’70s look to your photos. Mike Rodriguez shows you how you can approximate the effect inside Elements quite easily.
Here’s a simple technique for adding a variable amount of grain to an image, to give it an old-time film effect.
Corey’s latest video illustrates a cool way to create a mosaic effect as an overlay on top of your photos.
Dave shows a number of ways to get a textured look to text when working with multiple type layers.
Matt offers up two ways to add some depth to a portrait: a targeted method using the Dodge and Burn tools, and an automated alternative using the High Pass and Surface Blur filters.
Follow along as Matt shows you how to deal with areas in your photos where things are a little too bright.
Corey takes one texture and creates a design that makes it look like he used several.
The Liquify Filter is great for those little retouching “tweaks” we all need to do from time to time.
Matt shows you how to add an easy, yet effective vignette to your images.
Corey takes one texture and creates a design that makes it look like he used several.














If you're looking for the quickest way to get up to speed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (or earlier versions), be sure to check out our "Getting Started" series. These videos will take you inside all aspects of Elements, for both the Mac and Windows versions: