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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Adjust Sharpness vs. High Pass

September 9, 2011

In Photoshop Elements, it seems that the most commonly used types of sharpening are High Pass and Adjust Sharpness/Unsharp Mask. These are two of the top Methods from my Top 12 list of sharpening methods. I used to use the High Pass method almost exclusively, but lately I’ve found myself going for Adjust Sharpening more. [...]

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Creating, Loading and Saving Brushes in Photoshop Elements

July 19, 2011

Last week’s Photoshop Elements tutorial covered brushes in Photoshop Elements. You’d think it was plenty long enough to cover everything, but this is Elements after all. You can learn and learn and learn and still not get to the end of the info! So we’re going to wrap up today. After this, you’re on your [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Brushes – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

July 8, 2011

What is it with the Soft Round Brush in Photoshop Elements anyway? Why does that term appear in every portrait retouching tutorial out there? Are you interested? Read on for excruciating detail about the who, what, where, why and when of using this tool in PSE. What’s the best way to access the Brush Tool? [...]

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Textures in Photoshop Elements for You: Win 1 of 5 $100 Gift Cards to Kaleidoscope

June 7, 2011

Using textures in Photoshop Elements is a easy way to add flair to your images. No installation required, unlike actions. For that reason, I am excited to announce a huge giveaway from Patti Brown’s Kaleidoscope. Five Texas Chicks readers will receive $100 gift cards to purchase anything they want in the Kaleidoscope store. That’s huge! [...]

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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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Free Florabella Collage Templates for Elements

May 10, 2011

Florabella, the home of beautiful and dreamy actions and textures for Photoshop and Elements, has a free template set on Facebook. Have you seen it yet? She mentioned that it wouldn’t last much longer, so you better download now if you’re interested. The set contains 4 diptychs and a triptych. In addition to the written [...]

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Texture Recipes and How to Remove Texture Selectively

April 21, 2011

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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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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How Many Versions of Each Image Do You Save?

March 21, 2011

Each time I teach a Photoshop Elements class, someone asks this question. And people are often surprised to learn that I save 4 or more copies of my favorite images. Yes, having multiple versions of the same image definitely takes up hard drive space. That’s why I have two of these babies. I chose this [...]

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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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