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 2

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gotcha

There are a lot of little things in Elements and Photoshop that can really ruin your day. Here’s a list of the most common ones. …

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