One of my favorite projects is to create custom wrappers for candy bars. They can be used for holidays, birthday parties, showers and weddings.
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Holiday Projects
Follow along with Dave as he shows us how to experiment with the Lighting Effects filter.
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.
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.
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.
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….
On the forum we have been making Snowflakes so I thought that we could use them to make a Christmas Card.
This tutorial carries on from the previous one where we made the Christmas Bauble (ornament).
Matt uses adjustment layers to show you how to frame a special image and make it POP!
Use gradients and the Halftone Filter to create an interesting dotted background for your work.
Show off your crafty side by transforming favorite photos into personalized gift tags.
If you usually rely on someone else’s holiday card design, how about trying your hand at designing your own this year? It’s easy!
As quite a few people are now starting to make their Valentine Day Cards, I thought that I would come up with a simple tutorial that has plenty of scope for additions and variations.
This year consider doing something a little different–turn a photo into a Christmas tree ornament and put it on your scrapbook layout. It will really make your page pop!
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.
Explore the more devious side of Elements with three fun photo effects, including alien eyes, ghostly apparitions, and babies with laser vision.
Use Wendy’s easy instructions to create a lovely Christmas stocking for your cards and scrapbook pages.
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