By Kelly Turner  ·  January 10th, 2012

Give a favorite landscape shot a unique twist by turning
it into its very own planet.

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  March 24th, 2006

One of the best features in Photoshop Elements for working fast is layer styles. In short, they simply make you look like a superstar when all you did was click a button.

By Karen Brockney  ·  March 13th, 2012

Learn how to customize your Brush tool options and create straight and dotted lines, along with a nice scalloped edge that can be used as a unique photo frame.

By Rick LePage  ·  January 16th, 2009

Here’s a bit more info on Michael Orton, as well as some links to discussions regarding the technique and sample photos.

By Karen Brockney  ·  March 27th, 2012

Karen shows you how to add a “spin” or “zoom” motion to your images with the Radial Blur inside of Elements.

By Corey Barker  ·  January 6th, 2008

Create an interesting design effect using clipping groups.

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  March 31st, 2005

Create realistic wood with the Liquefy tool.

By Dave Cross  ·  February 17th, 2006

This is a very simple edge effect technique.

By Lesa Snider  ·  May 21st, 2007

Get ready to take an ordinary photo and transform it into an extraordinary image by placing a Polaroid-style frame on top of a grayscale version of the same image.

By Kelly  ·  April 17th, 2012

This is the sample file to follow along with “Vintage Color” from the May/June 2012 issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques.

By Corey Barker  ·  November 10th, 2008

Corey Barker shows you how to make reusable effects using displacement maps

By Corey Barker  ·  January 26th, 2007

Enhance a layout with a torn edge effect.

By Rick LePage  ·  April 27th, 2012

This is a free set of presets for use with the Perfect Effects plug-in for Photoshop Elements, published by onOne Software.

By Wendy Williams  ·  March 12th, 2006

Adding a little bit of rain to a photo is a simple thing. Here’s how to do it.

By Dave Cross  ·  October 19th, 2009

Dave shows you several techniques for adding splashes of color to a black-and-white photo.

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  June 28th, 2010

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.

By Rick LePage  ·  January 2nd, 2009

The photographer Michael Orton developed an inventive landscape technique in the 1980s using slide film, but it has become a popular digital effect as well, and it’s easy to create inside Photoshop Elements.

By Dave Cross  ·  June 29th, 2009

Dave shows us how to use Adjustment Layers (Threshold) to experiment with effects without modifying the original image.

By Elizabeth LePage  ·  October 2nd, 2011

Elizabeth delves into the wonderful flexibility found in Gradient Map adjustment layers, showing you how you can use the Gradient Editor to create black and white images and photos with a warm-toned look.

By Corey Barker  ·  November 10th, 2006

Apply a hand painted colorization effect to a special image.