Digital Imaging Tutorials

Learning Effects – Part 4

Learning Effects
Step back in your History palette to before the Brushed Metal effect. Clear your history, too, if you like. You can a …

Redeye Removal I

Redeye Removal
How to remove redeye is one of the most frequently asked questions in the Photosho …

Redeye Removal II

Redeye Removal
With the selection active, click on the New Adjustment Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette (the black and w …

Redeye Removal III

Redeye Removal
Use the paintbrush tool to paint with black on your image around the edge of where the red …

Redeye Removal IV

Redeye Removal
The second, faster but not as nice method for redeye correction is as follows. As with the …

Artistic Filtering – Page 1

Artistic Filtering
[The Ctrl-J shortcut for duplicating a layer or selection contents to a new layer is disabled in Elements 2. Us …

Artistic Filtering – Page 3

Artistic Filtering
The following examples use the same method as has already been described. (Draw your black outline on its own l …

Artistic Filtering – Page 4

Artistic Filtering
The next filter I used was Underpainting (Filter > Artistic > Underpainting). Remember to select the back …

Artistic Filtering – Page 5

Artistic Filtering
Here are two possible methods for altering a male portrait to “depersonalize” it, or make it into a generic …

Symmetrical Flowers – Part I

Symmetrical Flowers
[Written for Elements 1. Users of version 2, please note that the command to flip a layer is now found at Image &g …

Symmetrical Flowers – Part II

Symmetrical Flowers
With the top, newly merged layer selected in the Layers palette, use the rectangular marquee tool to once again dr …

Simulated Alpha Channels – Part I

Simulated Alpha Channels
[Please note: Elements 2 allows the saving of selections as alphas. However, since you can’t see or edit them …

Simulated Alpha Channels – Part II

Simulated Alpha Channels
Before attempting to paint close to the flower’s edges, zoom way in so you can see exactly what you̵ …

Simulated Alpha Channels – Part III

Simulated Alpha Channels
With the mask corrected, and the flower layer’s visibility turned back on, the image looked as shown bel …

Layer Masks – Part I

Layer Masks
Elements 2 users, you can’t use the shortcut key method that worked in Elements 1, but you can easily add a layer mas …

Layer Masks – Part II

Layer Masks
Here we are, then. All set with our mask on the layer where we need it. A lot of trouble, but you’ll see, when you w …

Curves Are an Abomination

Curves Are an Abomination
Curves Are an Abomination …and so is the Shadows/Highlights command. Unless, of course, you want to create …

Artistic Filtering – Page 2

Artistic Filtering
Use the History palette to undo the Poster Edges filter and the Blend Mode change. Then, with the background co …

Simulated Alpha Channels – Part IV

Simulated Alpha Channels
Grab the gradient mask layer, and drag it below the original image copy. For this effect to show properly, we …

Gotcha (Mac only)

[Mac only] When you move something with the move tool, it always snaps back to where it was before.Change your color picker from Apple …

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