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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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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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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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Blending Modes and Textures

By Dave Cross  ·  January 9th, 2012

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Dave shows you some ways to add textures to an existing photograph.

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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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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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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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Elements 10: Organizer Updates

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  September 24th, 2011

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Among the enhancements to the Organizer in Photoshop Elements 10, Adobe has added some new search tools, including a “Search by Object” feature, and a Find Duplicates option.

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Four Essential Photo Fixes

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  February 2nd, 2010

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Sometimes a simple fix is all it takes to make your photos pop; we offer four quick techniques that everyone should know.

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Faking a Neutral Density Filter

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  February 26th, 2008

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Matt shows you how to mimic a neutral density filter for you landscape photos.

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More Fun with Textures

By Corey Barker  ·  April 26th, 2010

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Corey takes one texture and creates a design that makes it look like he used several.

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Faking the “Looking at the Past” effect

By Dave Cross  ·  October 22nd, 2010

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Taking a cue from the tutorial site Abduzeedo, Dave Cross shows you how to create a very cool “I was here when” effect in Photoshop Elements.

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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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Crop Tool

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  January 1st, 2010

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Cropping is a very powerful composition element to image editing. Learn about the Crop Tool and some of the nifty settings that will make your image size manipulations easy.

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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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Creating a Cut-out Edge Effect

By Wendy Williams  ·  March 19th, 2009

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Fancy cut-out edges are great to use on your Scrapbook Pages and actually they are not too difficult to make.

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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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Adobe Camera Raw: Overview

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  October 13th, 2011

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Mike Rodriguez gives an overview of the Adobe Camera Raw dialog.

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Decorate Punched Tags of Any Shape Using a Scanner

By Liz Ness  ·  June 22nd, 2011

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Creating designs for standard paper punch shapes like circles is far easier than non-standard shapes — unless you have a scanner. Then, it’s a breeze! This web tutorial shares how.

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