I love all the different ways we can use Photoshop and Elements to create interesting styles for our type when creating new digital scrapbooking layouts. Whether it’s simple gold text, a set of drop shadows or something more complex, the different ways you can change the type to suit your layout is endless. This effect is one of my favorites. Called the Letter Press
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Here’s a quick, easy way to enhance the look of any photo, especially ones that are just slightly out of focus. It uses the High Pass filter in Photoshop and Elements. The what? Yeah, The High Pass filter. It’s one of the lesser known filters hidden under the menus but is it ever a lifesaver for these slightly soft pictures. Here’s how to use
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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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Want to play a little game? These are all extreme close-ups of common daily objects. While we’ve written about macro photography before, these are beyond what we can capture with our cameras and are actually done under a scanning electron microscope. Some of them are beautiful too. Get the answer to what it is by hovering your mouse over a picture. Fun huh? Did
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As we gather all over the world for the holiday season and Christmas, everyone usually pulls out old pictures and scrapbooks to share with friends and family to relive the memories of the past. And sadly some of the photos (like us too!) are starting to show their age. Fading, discoloration – it’s all common for older color pictures. While modern photo paper can
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