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Free Action for Photoshop Elements: Mini Fusion Tutorial

May 20, 2011

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

April 15, 2011

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

February 14, 2011

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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Elements Crashes After Installing Actions

June 4, 2010

As if it’s not hard enough to install actions into Photoshop Elements, every once in a while PSE will crash even though you’ve done everything right. Have you ever seen this message after opening Elements? Just to be clear here, this is not the same as getting the “Not Responding” message while MediaDatabase is rebuilding. [...]

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Photoshop Elements and Photography Tutorials for You from Texas Chicks Blogs and Pics

March 31, 2010

For those of you new to Texas Chicks, here is a list of my “Greatest Hits” as an introduction to everything this website has to offer. I look forward to getting to know you and welcome any suggestions you have for future tutorials! Free Actions Oh, the Drama Perfect Workflow Reflection Action Drop Shadow Lab [...]

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Free Actions for Photoshop Elements from the Pioneer Woman

March 26, 2010

Yes, the Pioneer Woman’s free actions were finally released yesterday! Most of you know this and already using them happily, so I just want to point out a few things about the way these actions work. First off, everything you need to know to install these actions is on this page – it’s info central [...]

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Organize Actions by Category in PSE 7 and 8 – Free Template

January 1, 2010

We Photoshop Elements action junkies have tons of actions in our Effects palette. Scrolling down a long list to look for the action you need can be a drawn-out pain in the patootie, can’t it? Would you like to organize your actions using folders accessible through the pick list, like this image? If you look [...]

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Improved Drop Shadow Free Action for Photoshop Elements

December 11, 2009

Information on downloading the free Drop Shadow action for Photoshop Elements has moved.

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Rounded Vignette Tutorial for Lightroom and Photoshop

June 20, 2009

One of Digital Photography for Mom’s wonderful readers asked how I created the vignette in this photograph: This photo was edited using Lightroom only. It didn’t take Photoshop to create that edgy look, believe it or not! Here are the Lightroom settings for the vignette: Post-crop vignette Amount -100 Midpoint 19 Roundness 0 Feather [...]

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