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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Fix Soft Focus

November 17, 2011

I love this shot I got of a bride at the best photography workshop I’ve ever attended. However, the focus was a bit soft. The focus isn’t terrible – in fact, for a 5×7 or 8×10, it might be just fine. But look what happens when you zoom in to those eyes and her hair: [...]

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Top Ten Uses for Color Swatches in Photoshop Elements

November 10, 2011

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 [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: The Color Swatches

November 9, 2011

This week, we are focusing on the Color Swatches in the Photoshop Elements toolbox. Tomorrow, we’ll have a list of the top 10 things you can do with the color swatches in PSE! Let’s start by finding the color swatches – they’re at the bottom of your toolbar. These swatches control the colors of any [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Feathering

November 3, 2011

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 [...]

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My Favorite Action for the Day After Halloween

November 1, 2011

Editing lots of Halloween photos this week in Photoshop Elements? If your photos are like mine, you have lots of ORANGE being reflected unflatteringly on skin. Like this: Now, when I first started editing photos, little reflected color casts like those in the pic above wouldn’t have bothered me. In fact, I wouldn’t have noticed [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Text Tool

October 28, 2011

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. [...]

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PSE Tutorial: Clone Tool vs. Spot Healing Brush for Blemish Removal

October 13, 2011

Photoshop Elements gives us several options for getting rid of distractions in our photos, whether they are spots on faces or strangers in the background. My two favorite tools for this type of edit are: Spot Healing Brush Clone Tool And people always want to know which to use where. That’s what we’ll talk about [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Adjust Sharpness vs. High Pass

September 9, 2011

In Photoshop Elements, it seems that the most commonly used types of sharpening are High Pass and Adjust Sharpness/Unsharp Mask. These are two of the top Methods from my Top 12 list of sharpening methods. I used to use the High Pass method almost exclusively, but lately I’ve found myself going for Adjust Sharpening more. [...]

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What’s the Deal with Installing Actions on Lion?

September 7, 2011

Mac is certainly making things difficult on us action lovers lately. First, there’s the mess regarding Elements purchased from the App Store, and how you can’t install most actions into it. Now, Lion is making it difficult for us to find the main Mac Hard Drive. If you’ve installed actions on a Mac before, you [...]

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Posing Couples the Harlequin Way

September 6, 2011

Hear me out on this before you click away thinking the Texas heat has gone to my head… Posing for photography is hard, but so important, right? We want our images to celebrate that emotional connection that makes a photo so much more than a record of two people who stood together in a pretty [...]

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Mac Users Beware: Don’t Buy Elements from the Mac App Store

August 24, 2011

Ok, my Mac friends. This is for you. If you have access to the Mac App Store on your computer, don’t use it to buy Photoshop Elements 9. This limited version of the software will not let you install actions through the Effects Palette. If you want the software quickly, you can download the full [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: My Favorite Tools and Their Settings

August 5, 2011

The tool options bar in Photoshop Elements was the subject of last week’s tutorial. This week, I’m going to share my most commonly used tools and their settings. Ready? First off, keep in mind that Elements requires you to have a tool selected at all times. This can get you into trouble if you have, [...]

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Using Tools in Photoshop Elements the Right Way: The Secret

July 28, 2011

Photoshop Elements gives us this robust set of tools in its toolbox. Each does something different and has its own unique settings to adjust. It’s these settings, or options, that I want to talk about today. I had used Elements for quite a while before I really understood that each tool has a very important [...]

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Creating, Loading and Saving Brushes in Photoshop Elements

July 19, 2011

Last week’s Photoshop Elements tutorial covered brushes in Photoshop Elements. You’d think it was plenty long enough to cover everything, but this is Elements after all. You can learn and learn and learn and still not get to the end of the info! So we’re going to wrap up today. After this, you’re on your [...]

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