Photoshop Elements allows you lots of different ways to convert any photograph into a natural looking art image that looks as if it were painted. Simply applying a filter or two from the filter gallery can give you all kinds of impressive artistic images from a digital photo. This technique produces results you can’t get from simply applying an artistic filter.
Here’s a technique that helps you create what (hopefully) looks like those chenille school letters you earn by being on the track team, in the choir, etc.
This is a companion tutorial to the “Painting with Pixels” article in Vol. 5 No. 5 of Photoshop Elements Techniques.
Photoshop Elements has a number of cool built-in effects, including the ability to create a vignette effect automatically. Just make a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool (M), and then from the Styles and Effects palette, choose Effects in the…
Here’s a more comprehensive list of the most-used file formats in Photoshop Elements to help you decide the best format to use for your files.
Here are detailed instructions for adding actions to Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows XP and Vista.
Note from Rick in Photoshop Elements Techniques for Volume 7, Number 1 (January/February 2010).
Setting an object aflame is slightly more complicated than text because you have to create a selection of the flame area first. However, the rewards are wildly amusing (especially after break-ups!), as you will soon see.
Installing actions in Photoshop Elements can sometimes be confusing. The method and location of installation is different with each version of Elements and computer operating system. Because of all these variations, it’s important that you use the correct instructions for…
Here are detailed instructions for adding actions to Photoshop Elements 5 for Windows XP and Vista.
Here are the results of the two options mentioned in “Backscreening Variations,” on page 18 of Photoshop Elements Techniques, Volume 2, Number 1.
This issue continues our exploration of Photoshop Elements’ essentials, with Mike Rodriguez’s in-depth article on layers.
Here is an alternate way to create the frame for the player described in Step 4 in the “Put Me In, Coach” article from Vol. 4. No. 5 of Photoshop Elements Techniques.
Here’s a “quick & dirty” way to create the look of 3D type, when you want a thick blocky look that bevel and emboss doesn’t provide. Just remember that the text (and the effect) is not editable, so you’ll have to start over if you change the type.
Actually, this really isn’t a second part to give you more hints on making selection, it’s really a follow-up to the last article that showed how to select an object using multiple tools. In this article we’re going to assume…
Oops, I was going to do a “part two” on making your photos look old, wasn’t I? Sorry about that, here it is: creating “old” scotch tape to add to your “old” photos.
One of the things I get asked quite a bit is how to add custom category icons to the Organizer in Photoshop Elements. There are a few provided, but you can quickly use all of these if you use the Organizer to keep track of your photos. Here’s how!
This month, we’re incorporating a few changes inside Photoshop Elements Techniques. We’re hoping that they will make the magazine more useful, and will help strengthen the link between the publication you receive in the mail and the Web site.
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