Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Tutorials

Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Adjustment Layers vs. Pixel Layers

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Last week’s Photoshop Elements tutorial talked about layers – why to use them and what they do. Today, we are going to talk about the two types of layers that I use the most in my photo editing:  adjustment layers and pixel layers. You can see from above screen shot that a pixel layer actually [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Layers

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Photoshop Elements beginners, this article is for you. One thing you always hear about Elements is that it’s great because you can use layers.  Or that you should use layers.  Well then, what are layers?  Why should you use them?  And how, exactly, do you use them? When I teach my Elements classes, I preach [...]

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Kaleidoscope Tutorials – Beautiful Looks from Patti Brown

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You guys all know that Kaleidoscope is my favorite source for Textures and Overlays to use in Photoshop Elements.  And Patti’s video tutorials for using textures and overlays taught me so much. Lately, Patti has added a couple of written tutorials to the Kaleidoscope blog that I’ve been playing with.  Even though the bluebonnets aren’t [...]

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New Photoshop Elements Action – MCP Fusion: One Click Workflow, Infinite Possibilities

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MCP has just released the Fusion action set for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and it is absolutely incredible.  With this set, you might not need to do anything else to your pictures! Fusion combines the most versatile and user-friendly workflow actions with beautiful color black & white conversions.  Because of this set’s unique structure (it’s [...]

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What I Learned at the Photoshop for Photographers Seminar that Changed My Photo Prints Forever

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The Kelby Seminar Photoshop for Photographers took place last week in Austin on our one and only snow day of the year.  And as you probably know, when it snows in Austin, we get about a 1/2 inch of snow over a layer of thick ice.  So driving is scary. But I braved the weather [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Layer Masks for Everyone

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Photoshop Elements 9 has a layer mask button built in.  That is one of the most spectacular upgrades when moving from 8 to 9.  But, it’s not reason to upgrade in and of itself. For those of you who are just beginning to explore layer masks, this is the tutorial for you.  If you get [...]

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Install Actions in Elements: Action Player Vs. Effects Palette

January 31, 2011

Installing actions in Photoshop Elements is just not intuitive, right?  At least we can say that it’s slowly getting easier. Lots of people are designing specifically for the Action Player of PSE now.  This tool is Adobe’s attempt at making it easier to install our favorite automations into PSE.  And when it works, it’s great. [...]

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Photoshop Elements Texture Tutorial

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I’m playing with textures in Photoshop Elements today.  Here are my results.  What do you think? Here is the before shot: I took this picture at sunset because the light outside on this particular day was a beautiful shade of gold.  I rushed the baby out, forgot my reflector and took her to a field [...]

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Photoshop Elements Online Classes: New Schedule and Discounts

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Photoshop Elements is tough to learn.  Has anyone else noticed that?  It’s even tougher when you’re trying to squeeze everything possible into two marathon sessions.  My last Elements from A to Z online workshop was split in half due to technical difficulties caused by the weather.  The first half was one day, and the second [...]

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Photoshop Elements – Cropping, Resizing, Aspect Ratio and Resolution

January 20, 2011

Cropping, Resizing, Aspect Ratio and Resolution in Photoshop Elements.  We’ve been talking about them a lot lately.  Some (like me) might even say we’ve talked about them ad nauseam.  But this is the last post, I promise. If you want to read the detail and understand why you should do what you need to do, [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Aspect Ratio and Print Size

January 13, 2011

My Photoshop Elements tutorial last week was about cropping versus resizing in PSE. You guys had lots to say about it, and as I anticipated, the tutorial bought up aspect ratio questions. Oh, aspect ratio.  Let’s knock that sucker out today, shall we? Aspect ratio is the proportion of an image’s height to its width.  [...]

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Photoshop Seminar in Austin – Wanna Join Me?

January 6, 2011

I just signed up for this Photoshop for Photographers seminar here in Austin.  Matt Kosklowski, one of the Photoshop Guys, is the teacher.  I’m very excited! Do you ever watch the Photoshop Guys?  I subscribe to their podcast and watch it on my Iphone while I work out.  Even when I was strictly an Elements [...]

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Photoshop Elements – Cropping vs. Resizing

January 4, 2011

Using Photoshop Elements is less than intuitive sometimes.  Especially when it comes to things that should be simple, like the size of photos.  Should you crop or resize?  Change the resolution?  PPI?  What? Now, there are many ways to accomplish the same thing in Elements – here is what I do to keep those two [...]

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6 Techniques for Capturing Sunbeams and Flare in Your Photos (And How to Save 30% on Your Own Personal Sun if these tips don’t work!)

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Photographs with sunbeams or flare are funny – some photographers consider them a mistake, others consider them art.  I fall into the latter camp!  I love the effect, and often enhance the sunbeams or flare that I capture, or fake them if I don’t. (To fake them, I use Kaleidoscope overlays.  Tuesday, November 30, is [...]

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