Featured Photoshop Elements Tutorials

Each time I teach a Photoshop Elements class, the top thing that people want to know how to do is to smooth and soften skin. There are about 46,000,000 ways to do this in PSE.  Here are 3 of them, along with a comparison. The first thing I can say is that the softening methods [...]

Textures and overlays are a great tool for adding oomph to a photo, hiding distractions, and even adding atmospheric effects.  You can get much more out of your textures if you know how to modify them to suit your needs. My daughter was being a real champ at posing a couple of weeks ago, and [...]

Wait.  Did I say post holiday slim down?  Because certainly I’m not suggesting that the Liquify tool in Photoshop Elements could ever be used to clean up a double chin that wasn’t quite so obvious in October. Or tuck in a little overhang above the pants.  No, I would never do that. The Liquify tool is [...]

Yesterday, we covered the basics of using the color tools in Photoshop Elements. So, now that you know how to find specific colors using the swatches, what in the world are you going to do with color in Elements? These are the top ten things that I use specific colors for: Paint on a layer [...]

Reading Photoshop Elements tutorials, you are bound to come across the word “feathering” at some time or another. Do you wonder what it means and why it’s so important?  Read on. Feathering a Selection On this website, you’ll most often hear about feathering when I  make vignettes.  If you are into replacing heads or compositing [...]

Thinking back to when I first learned PSE, the text tool was one of the least intuitive things for me to master.  So here a beginner’s guide to using it, now that I have a clue about what I’m doing. The text tool is the one with the big letter “T” in your Elements toolbox. [...]