Pin It One of the most powerful, useful and probably overlooked tools in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements is Levels. It isn’t a “tool” exactly, rather an adjustment that can be used as an adjustment layer or as an adjustment on a duplicate layer. The slightly more powerful brother to Levels is Curves, which is only […]
Simple Edit Steps in Photoshop Elements -Fix It Friday
January 14, 2011 by 30 Comments
I am thrilled that I Heart Faces has started their Fix It Friday back up, and this week they haven given us a beautiful photo to edit! Below is the straight-out-of-the-camera (SOOC) image they provided. Note: All my edits were done in Photoshop Element 9 The picture is really lovely and only had a few […]
How to Use Curves in Photoshop Elements {and a free action and video tutorial}
December 2, 2010 by 34 Comments
Pin It It is a well known fact that Photoshop Elements is the “baby brother” to Photoshop (Creative Suites, like CS5), and it has most of the same things Photoshop has, with some major tools/adjustments being omitted from Photoshop Elements. This helps keep the price of PSE down, but also helps keep it more user […]
Free PSE Template Giveaway and Fix It Friday 10.29.10
October 29, 2010 by 6 Comments
Friday, so it is time to edit a picture given to us at I Heart Faces. This week was a good one, a challenge. This image had some serious White Balance issues and a few color casts to get rid of. Below is the SOOC image they gave us and then my final entry. All […]
Tweak White Balance With Levels
September 13, 2010 by 22 Comments
Today I am going to share how to correct White Balance issues in your pictures with a Levels adjustment in Photoshop Elements (applies to regular PS also). I am not going to explain what White Balance is, that is a whole other post, and until I get to it, here is a great one by […]
Defog Digital Images With Levels
September 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This post was moved over from Photography Haven. Those new to digital photography may be asking “Defog? What the heck is defogging?” Well, many digital images come out of the camera with a bit of a haze on them. Sometimes that is from incorrect exposure settings, sometimes because of the sun hitting your sensor and […]
