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Portrait Retouching, Part 2: Photoshop Elements Tutorial

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My Portrait Retouching Workflow tutorial for Photoshop Elements generated lots of good questions.  To answer them, I going to give you some advanced portrait techniques in this tutorial.  Here’s my before and after: Other than my basic workflow steps, this tutorial will show you how to repair blown out pixels, make eyes larger and add [...]

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Texture Recipes and How to Remove Texture Selectively

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Textures, I thought,  might add a lot to this image.  Now, don’t get me wrong – I absolutely love it as it is.  But  something about it made me want to “art it up” a bit.  It was a special night with good friends and the memory deserved a little extra processing. So I played [...]

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Great Photoshop Sharpening Article

March 6, 2009

I’ve really been interested in sharpening in Photoshop Elements lately.  I hope you aren’t getting bored with reading about sharpening techniques.  Of course, these posts are in no way a comment on my always ummm, stellar and tack-sharp photography! Anyway,  today’s Digital Photography School post, How to Sharpen Photos: An Introduction, was written incredibly clearly.  Something inside [...]

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Perfect Photoshop Elements Workflow – Part 4, Blemish Removal

February 8, 2009

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements both have straightforward and easy-to-use tools for removing imperfections from a photograph – dust specks, wrinkles in a scanned picture, hot spots from a flash, juice stains on a shirt, wrinkles on a face.  The list could go on and on! So this tutorial will consist of a brief overview about using each [...]

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10 Methods of Sharpening an Image in Photoshop Elements

December 6, 2008

This post is the 3rd opportunity for you to enter my contest for a free copy of Photoshop Elements 7/Premiere Elements 7!  See details after the post. It never fails that the cutest pictures of my kids are slightly  less than perfect photographically.  Often, they aren’t quite sharpe enough – I find it hard to [...]

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Smart Brush Tips for Photoshop Elements 7 or Any Other Version of PSE!

November 5, 2008

Last week, I posted a general how-to on using the new Smart Brush in Photoshop Elements 7, and today’s post continues with tips and tricks on using the Smart Brush and how to duplicate its effects in any version of PSE, even if you didn’t upgrade to PSE 7. Smart Brush Effects Categories The PSE [...]

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