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Photoshop Tutorials and QuickTips

If you're a fan of Photoshop, please check out my video training title, "From Photo to Graphic Art" over at KelbyTraining.com.

It features 23, short QuickTime movies that show you how to turn your photos into unique pieces of graphic art. Learn how to create all kinds of color effects, ornamental vector frames (using a Smart Object), how to turn a photo to stone, combine images, and more.

I'm always adding new video titles so be sure to check my KelbyTraining.com page often. I hope you enjoy them!

Most recent tutorials are listed first. Enjoy!

How to design business cards in Photoshop Creative Edges: How to add a page curl to a photo
How to make cool collages in Photoshop (link goes to full article on CreativePro.com
Fun with Adjustment Layers: How to instantly reverse color
Quick Color Change: How to repaint an object using the Hue mode
Zoom Crop: Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping
Photo FavoritesFive Fast Photo Effects
Intensifying Color: How to add Lab Pop
Photoshopping People: Pinching Flabby Chins Hollow Text: How to make your text see-through
Digital Beauty Shop: Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color

Type Tricks: Rotating individual letters and intersecting text

Get it Straight: How to Crop and Straighten Multiple Photos

Fade to White: Fading a photo to white in both Photoshop and Elements
Fixing Fringe: Filtering away edge haloes or fringe Faux Finished Photo Edges: Creating a painted look with an edge mask
Combining Images: Quick Creative Collage Paint it Blue: How to turn a photo into a blueprint
Serious Red-Eye Fixer Upper: Using the Color Replacement brush to zap stubborn red-eye Repainting Cabinets in Photoshop and Elements: Create a selection and change the color of anything
A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 5: Making a macabre collage with Darker Color Let It Snow! Filter your way to a flurry of snowflakes
A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4: Creating a collage with Linear Burn Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2: Creating a watermark action
Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 1: Using Vector Shapes to add a watermark Zapping Edge Haloes: Using the Minimum filter to fix edges
A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3: Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2: Mastering Multiply
A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1: Demystifying Blending Modes The No-Name Photo Effect: High contrast, sharpened, bleached effect
Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame: Frame your photo with a Smart Object The Secret to Round Edges: How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo
Selective Color Photo Effect: How to create a partial color photo in just two steps! Tips for Better Text, Pt. 2: A lesson in leading
Blurry Background a la Lensbaby: How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Tips for Better Text, Pt. 1: Learn to kern!
How to create sparkles in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lines of All Kinds How to draw lines, arrows, and circles in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
Cropping to the rule of thirds Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid Cropping to the rule of thirds Finding Photoshop's hidden cropping grid
Wrangling Web Graphics: Tips for creating small web graphics Fall Leaf Photo Frame
Placing a photo inside text: easy clipping groups QuickTip: How to fix a rogue Brush cursor
Simply Statues: How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Eyes of the Otherworld: The magic of iris enhancement
Digital Beauty Shop Changing the color of hair Tough Selections, Part 1 The magic of the Background Eraser
QuickTip: Finding Missing Crop or Free Transform handles Lighten Up! Using blend modes and masking to lighten shadows
Super Silhouettes Channel your way to a perfect silhouette Gettin' Grungy with It Using another photo to create texture for your type
The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3 How to Whiten Teeth (NOTE: This is an Elements tutorial, but the steps are identical in CS2) From Photo to Pencil Sketch Turning sub-par images into an emotional piece of art
QuickTip: Drag and dropping Layer Styles QuickTip: Faster Resizing
Glare o' the Glasses Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Creating a Circuit Board Face Using the Displace filter to map one image onto another

Weathered Words Using the brush tool to create grunge type
Top 11 Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop and Elements
Fast Photo Spotlight Two step pro-portrait studio effect Quick Polaroid frame Using the Crop tool to make a 10-second frame
Goin' Grayscale Using Channels to produce eye-popping contrast QuickTip: Scrolling zoom in Photoshop and Elements
Color Shifting Made Easy Changing the color of a metal object QuickTip: Zapping Photoshop Preferences Make Photoshop rebuild your preferences for you
Simulating Pictures Placing an image within an image Realistic Reflections Recreating Apple's iWeb reflection effect
Selecting Frizzy Hair Use the Extract Filter for complex selections The Che-Guevara Effect: How to create a Santa-Guevara and as a bonus, a floating Santa face
Fabulous Fades: Behold the power of the gradient layer mask! QuickTip: Tweaking Photoshop's User Interface
Pick a New Picker: Picking an alternate color picker in Photoshop Project Files: The Making of a Digital Belly Ring
Gettin' the Red Out Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Festive Photo Frames Give your photo a film strip edge
Softening Freckles The magic of selective blurring How to Fix Animal White-Eye Fixing the animal version of red-eye
Super Sparkling Eyes Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Tips and Tweaks to make Photoshop run faster
Shallow Depth of Field Recreating cool camera effects QuickTip: When Photoshop Tools misbehave The magic of deselect and tool options
Pixel Super Sleuthing Finding the darkest and lightest bits of an image Warp Speed Color Correction Simple steps to get you back to original color using Curves
Digital Plastic Surgery Zapping blemishes, bags, and wrinkles Creating Favicons Make your own web site icon using Photoshop or Elements...
Aging Photos: Tips & Tricks for making photos look old QuickTip: Faster Photoshop! Process! Process! Enabling the Bigger Tiles plug-in
Easy Clipping Groups: Bringing an image through text QuickTip: Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss The secret is in percents!
Playful Panoramas Stitching photos together the easy way Classy Thumbnails: three simple steps to better, classier thumbnail images...
QuickTip: Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size Add some interest by softening those image edges... Partial Color: black and white photos with just a touch of color
Mysteries of Unsharp Mask: What it is and why you should use it Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Preserving the important bits of your images from the horrors of compression...
Soft Edges Add some interest by softening those image edges... What's New in Photoshop CS2? Lesa's top 10 list of cool new stuff...
Super funky edges Create your own cool edge effects with filters... Crop City! Cropping images to specific sizes in Photoshop and Elements...
Quick photo fix: correcting shadows and highlights. When the shadows are so dark that you can’t see... QuickTip: Grabbing color from other areas on your desktop can be next to impossible unless you know this little trick...
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