Pin It I have done a few different “clean edit” tutorials but those were always older children or adults. Often questions are left at the blog or Facebook page about editing newborns, so I thought I would dedicate a post to those precious edits. Note – this edit is going to skip the exposure/contrast/white balance […]
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Upcoming PSE Workshops {and last ones for a while}
September 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I have three upcoming live, online workshops coming up this month, Beginners tomorrow, September 15, Skintones on September 18th and Clean Edit Workflow on September 22nd. These are the last live, online workshops I will be doing for a while because I am going to take a month or two off from them so I […]
Sharpening Images in Photoshop Elements {Part 2}
September 5, 2011 by 5 Comments
Recently I did a quick tutorial showing you my favorite way to sharpen, the High Pass filter technique, but promised to bring you another post showing you an alternate way to sharpen. This time I am going to talk about the Unsharp Mask filter technique. Steps to take when sharpening with Unsharp Mask: Finish ALL […]
How to Make Photos Look Vintage in Photoshop and PSE
August 2, 2011 by 12 Comments
Pin It A very popular style for images is the vintage or retro look and I have had many people ask how they can do that on their own, so I thought a short tutorial would be helpful. I am just giving three basic steps that you can add other adjustments or effects on top […]
Photoshop Tutorial: The Basics of Curves
June 14, 2011 by 14 Comments
Pin It For over a year I have been teaching Photoshop Elements via online workshops. In late August it will be a year that I have been writing tutorials for PSE here at Everyday Elements. Not once have I written a tutorial for Photoshop (although I have done video tutorials for it), but that is […]
Everyday Elements Editing Tutorials Index
June 4, 2011 by 8 Comments
Please check out the automatically-updated Tutorial Index. The list below was one I managed manually and was too time-intensive. Since I share tutorials in no certain order, I thought an index of all my written and video tutorials would be helpful to those just finding Everyday Elements. New to Photoshop Elements (or Photoshop CS5)? […]
How to Use Noiseware to Reduce Noise
April 19, 2011 by 8 Comments
Noise – what the heck is it? Noise is the digital graininess images sometimes have. How does noise get on the pictures? There are two main ways to cause noise: Using a high ISO (although new cameras can handle higher ISOs better than older cameras) Underexposing a picture will introduce noise to the image, despite […]
Rock the Shot! New Forum For Photographers
February 27, 2011 by 41 Comments
I am so excited to announce the grand opening of Rock the Shot, a new forum for enthusiastic photographers!! The reason I am so excited is because one of my good friends, Laura Thomas from Pretty Presets, is one of the co-founders. This forum is going to help you ROCK your photography and editing […]
Florabella Textures Review, Tutorial and Giveaway!
February 23, 2011 by 634 Comments
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. ANY ENTRIES MADE AFTER 11 pm EST WILL BE DELETED. Winner was Holly, comment #298! I love textures. Let me say that again….I love textures. Love them. Love. ♥ The very first textures I ever paid money for were from Florabella. I bought both her sets (that she had available […]
How to Photograph a Sunburst
January 31, 2011 by 9 Comments
I shared this little trick on capturing sunburst in your images on the Facebook fan page, and decided to share it here for later reference and for those who have sworn off of Facebook. 🙂 Okay, so I went on a short walk with my son the other day, and of course brought along my […]
