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When life gives you lemons, call your blurry photo glowing & dreamy! Sometimes, a picture is just plain out-of-focus, and no amount of sharpening can make it look good.  The Orton Effect is beautiful on many shots – I especially love it in landscapes.  Plus, it works great when you need to disguise an out-of-focus [...]

 Ok, just a bit of a warning to start off with. This tutorial is lonnnnnnng. Did I say long? It’s almost endless. But it’s good info if you’ve never used an action in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, or if you’ve never used layer masks. If you just need a refresher, you might start with the [...]

Warning:  This Photoshop Elements tutorial is EXCRUCIATINGLY detailed and may cause eyes to cross!  Read the instructions that came with PowderRoom first, and read my tutorial only if you still need help!   CoffeeShop PowderRoom 2 is a fantastic action created by Rita at CoffeeShop Free Actions!  A few clicks of your mouse will completely retouch [...]

This is part 3 of my tutorial on using the CoffeeShop PowderRoom 2 free action.  It covers whitening, brightening and defining eyes.  Whiten Eyes Click on the White Whites layer in the Layers Palette to activate it.  Make sure that the black Layer Mask Thumbnail on this layer has a white outline around it. Zoom [...]

Install and Run CoffeeShop PowderRoom 2 Action If you don’t already have CoffeeShop PowderRoom 2, download it.  See these instructions for installing actions in Photoshop Elements 4, 5, 6 & 7 on Vista and XP if you need help. Open PSE, and open a portrait that you want to retouch. Make sure you are in [...]