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Creating a Mosaic Effect as a Design Element

By Corey Barker  ·  June 14th, 2010

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Corey’s latest video illustrates a cool way to create a mosaic effect as an overlay on top of your photos.

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Making a Deckle-Edged Mat

By Wendy Williams  ·  June 23rd, 2010

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Here’s a quick and easy way to make a deckle-edged mat, which you can use in scrapbook pages, greeting cards and more.

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Edge Sharpening Secrets

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  May 30th, 2011

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Matt shares one of his favorite techniques for sharpening landscape photos, using an edge mask created from the Find Edges filter.

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Tips, Ideas and Links for Out of Bounds Images

By Diana Day  ·  August 4th, 2011

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There are numerous ways to customize your Out of Bounds images; here are a few ideas and some links for inspiration.

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Using Textures with Photos: Examples, Tips, and Links

By Diana Day  ·  June 16th, 2009

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Tips, tricks and links for working with textures.

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Dave’s Retouching Techniques, Part 2

By Dave Cross  ·  August 4th, 2011

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The second of a two-part series on retouching techniques from Dave; this one focuses on fixing the skin.

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Introduction to Layers, Part 1

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  January 1st, 2010

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Learn the basics of the most important feature in Photoshop Elements — Layers. Once you have become proficient with Layers you’ll be able to expand and use all the features of Element much more easily.

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Adding Canvas Space

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  May 27th, 2011

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Mike Rodriguez shows you three tips for adding some extra space to the edges of a photo.

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Defining Custom Brushes

By Corey Barker  ·  October 10th, 2010

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In this quick video, Corey shows you how to create a custom brush from a photo.

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Elements 10 Arrives

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  December 1st, 2011

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Photoshop Elements 10 adds new features that aim to take the guesswork out of cropping, cut down on the time you spend searching, and put you in greater control of your text.

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Combine Images for Fun Results

By Corey Barker  ·  April 12th, 2010

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Corey walks you through how to composite multiple images into one realistic result.

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Adjustment Layers for Photographers

By Jeff Carlson  ·  October 18th, 2011

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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.

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Tame Your Text

By Lesa Snider  ·  January 3rd, 2012

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For words that wow, take control of the Type tool’s powerful formatting options.

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Combining Two Images

By Dave Cross  ·  December 21st, 2009

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Dave shows you how to take the best of two images and combine them into one great shot!

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Old-Fashioned Photo Effect

By Corey Barker  ·  November 20th, 2010

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Corey shows you how to take a couple of photos and an image of some old parchment paper to create a collage with an old-fashioned sepia look.

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Change Color

By Dave Cross  ·  November 7th, 2003

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Using Adjustment Layers to change the color of anything.

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Creating Backgrounds for an Extracted Image

By Diana Day  ·  May 12th, 2009

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Using your own backgrounds for extracted images is easy; Diana shows you a number of ways to make your own, and offers links to sites with backgrounds and textures you can use.

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3 Stress-Free Portrait Touch-Ups

By Lesa Snider  ·  August 6th, 2011

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Create dramatic eyes, hide bags and blemishes, and de-emphasize double chins with these clever, fully editable fixes. Your loved ones will thank you.

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Elements 10: Additions to Guided Edit Mode

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  September 24th, 2011

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Elements 10′s Guided Edit Mode has a few new options, including a Depth of Field lens effect, a version of the popular Orton look, and Photo Stack, which breaks a single image into a group of collage of four, eight or 12 “snapshots.”

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Navigation Tools

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  January 1st, 2010

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Mike begins his tour of the Toolbox with the most basics of tools — Navigation Tools. Learn how to move around your documents; learn how to zoom in on your images and much more.

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