Jenn

I’ll bet you don’t even know what a “reference point” is in Photoshop! That’s ok, I didn’t know that’s what it is called either. But I’ll bet you’ve seen it! When you have your Move Tool selected, if you have the “Show Bounding Box” box checked you will see the Bounding Box around the active layer.  This looks like lines with little squares in
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A reader asked a question today which reminded me of this cool tutorial on using gradients. It shows you how to make custom gradients and use them to kick up your scrapbooking supplies like this: But then we got talking about photo overlays, and I wondered how gradient overlays would work with photos: Pretty cool! So to get you to try it, here’s a
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I’ve been out and about on the interwebs a lot this last week, finding cool new things to share both here, on our facebook page and our twitter feed.  Today I thought I’d share two ways you can save links to things for future use – CTRL+D – in both Internet Explorer and Firefox this will bookmark the page you are on and open
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You may have noticed I’ve missed a few Tuesday Tips lately… sorry ‘bout that.  Stan and I have been teaching a great Digital Photography class over at our local community college, and it’s taken up a bunch of time. But we had a great group of students, and a lot of fun! (At left is the circle picture we took tonight!) So that you
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Tonight the moon will be closer to the earth than it has in a long time, resulting in a big, beautiful moon! It should be easier than ever to see the man in the moon – or the Moon Rabbit! Also called the Jade rabbit, in Chinese, Japanese and Korean folklore, the rabbit pounds medicine or rice cakes.  Similar legends occur in Mexican folklore.
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