One-click vignette; clear away red eyes; using the Eyedropper Tool’s sampling option; resize brushes the fast way (MAC).
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Brushes are one of the most misunderstood tools of Photoshop Elements: I feel as if they never get enough love and appreciation.
Getting sharp edges when applying a stroke to a selection; rearranging brushes in the Brush Picker; how to position lens flare; and accessing full-screen mode in Camera Raw.
Quickly create a custom signature (or text) brush that you can use as a watermark over and over again for your photos.
In this quick video, Corey shows you how to create a custom brush from a photo.
This is a set of fairy brushes for use with your projects, including Wendy Williams’ “Baby in a Flower” tutorial.
Learn to master one of Elements’ most useful tools–and unleash your inner artist–with Diana Day’s excellent overview on using brushes in Elements.
If you can’t find exactly what you want among the brushes included with Elements, try searching the Web.
Tired of switching back and forth between different brush libraries to use your favorite brushes? Here’s how to combine the brushes you use most often into a custom brush set.
Want to become more adept at working with brushes? Check out these tutorials across the Web.
If you download many new brush sets to use in Elements, you may not wish to install them all in the Presets/Brushes folder as it may cause Elements to run slower.
Not sure what the brushes in Elements are for? Mike explains them in this 2-part series.
Mike shows you what the Color Replacement Brush and Pencil Tool can be used for.
If you have a cute photo of a child you wish to use for a fairy-tale image, but don’t care for the background, try selecting the child to place in a new background.
Add a wonderful fairy-tale look to photos of your children and grandchildren with this great project.
Here are some Web links to high-resolution brushes you can use with your images to create clipping masks. (See “Creating and Using Clipping Masks,” in the September/October 2009 issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques magazine.)
Lace mats are quite popular in scrapbooking so I thought that I would do a tutorial showing you how to make a simple brush and then use that brush to make some lace for trimming a mat.
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