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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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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