photoshop elements

What Happens If You Break a Fundamental Rule of Photography?

May 24, 2011

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard it, but I still forget sometimes. Before you snap that photo, start from the 4 corners of your frame and look from the outside in. Make sure you’re not about to snap an image with annoying distractions in the background. Like a remote control. I mean really, [...]

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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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Workflow Order – Don’t Sweat It!

May 18, 2011

Workflow order is the topic that I get asked about most often in my classes, whether it’s the Lightroom or the Elements class. People worry that there is one and only one order that post processing work should be done in, and that not knowing this order is going to ruin their photos. Put your [...]

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Photoshop Elements and Lightroom Online Classes: New Schedule

April 26, 2011

Since I will be at the Royal Wedding for a few days, I have scheduled some posts to run in my absence. If you have questions for me while I’m gone, I will answer them when I return the first week of May. Are you thinking about signing up for an Elements or Lightroom online [...]

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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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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Problem Photos? Open JPEGs in ACR

April 5, 2011

Photoshop Elements has an underutilized feature for folks who haven’t converted to shooting in Raw yet. If you shoot in JPEG, you might think that you have to miss out on the easy exposure and white balance adjustments that Adobe Camera Raw provides. But that’s not true! You can open any JPEG in Raw and [...]

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Elements Classes – Now Registering (& Coupon Codes)

March 18, 2011

Is April the time for you to master Photoshop Elements? If so, it’s time to register for the classes that will make that happen. The March session were quite fun! We had great photos to edit, and lots of “aha” moments all around. Here is the April schedule: Read the detailed class descriptions here. Use [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Flatten vs. Merge vs. Stamp Visible

March 17, 2011

Wait a minute. I thought the beauty of Photoshop Elements is that you can save all your layers in a PSD file, and then go back and edit them at any point in the future. Why would I ever want to flatten those layers? I’m going to take you through my workflow on this image [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Adjustment Layers vs. Pixel Layers

March 15, 2011

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

March 11, 2011

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

March 8, 2011

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

March 1, 2011

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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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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New Free Action for Photoshop Elements

February 9, 2011

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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