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Free Action for Photoshop Elements: Mini Fusion Tutorial

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Mini Fusion, MCP’s latest free action for Photoshop Elements, has gotten so many raves that it’s worthy of a tutorial showing just what this freebie is capable of.  Actions, as we all know, sometimes make a huge and instant impact on a photo, and other times they need tweaking.  The beauty of Mini Fusion is [...]

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New Free Action for Photoshop Elements

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Patti Brown, from Kaleidoscope, recently released a free action for full Photoshop for her readers. You all know how much I love Patti Brown.  Her textures are gorgeous, but her light overlays – oh, they are what truly rock my image editing.  You can add sunbeams or bokeh to your images, and transform your image [...]

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Valentine’s Photo Ideas and a New Free Action from MCP

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Details on the brand new free action from MCP are at the end of this post. I think that photo Valentines are a new tradition in our house. This is the card we’re passing out today.  I saw a similar picture somewhere on the internet recently, but can’t for the life of me remember where.  [...]

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New Free Action for Photoshop Elements

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My newest free action for Photoshop Elements is my special Luminosity Sharpening.  It’s super strong, but avoids halos and that crispy look that often accompany high levels of sharpening. You can download it from my Facebook page.  Just click on “Like” (if you haven’t already) and the it’s all yours! These pictures demonstrate how this [...]

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Photoshop Elements Actions: MCP All in the Details

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MCP’s All in the Details for Photoshop Elements was released this week.  Have you seen it in action yet?  (You can click on these images to zoom in.) I did another shoot last weekend for Smart Flour Foods and used All in the Details on several of my images.  These are sneak peeks for the [...]

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New Free Action for PSE and More from the I Heart Faces Workshop

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First off, MCP is offering a free action for Elements users to her Facebook fans.  It’s called the Facebook Fix.  It will optimize your images for posting on Facebook by sizing and sharpening to just the right amount – this action works on single images or builds collages of two images.  Go fan MCP and [...]

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Photoshop Elements Texture Tutorial

March 17, 2010

Photoshop Elements texture tutorials are a dime a dozen these days.  I’m going to add my two cents worth below and detail the specific steps I used on a particular image.  And there is a free action alert at the bottom of this post! What is the best tutorial you’ve seen for using textures and [...]

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