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 Creating a Line of Circles in Photoshop and Elements
This week’s tip is the eighth in a series of video tips on using shapes to add interest to your digital projects. We’ve explored a number of shapes from hand drawn squares and offset circles to waves and cut-out type. This week’s tip rounds out the series with instructions ...
- Grouping Photos Within a Circle in Photoshop and PSE
This week’s tip is the seventh in a series of video tips on using shapes to create interesting accents for your digital projects. It has been fun exploring different ways to display photos and patterned papers on digital projects. This week’s tip puts a little twist on grouping e ...
- Using Type to Change Shapes in Photoshop and PSE
The past few weeks, we’ve been working through our series of video tips on using shapes to create interesting accents for your digital projects. This week’s tip combines shapes with your favorite fonts to create personalized page elements. Get started by opening a new document in ...
- Trendy Squares with 2 Rounded and 2 Squared Corners in Photoshop and PSE
Flipping through a magazine the other day, I noticed a trendy design shape on a number of pages. The shape is a square or rectangle with two or three rounded corners. The remaining corner retains a sharp point. I thought this would be a fun shape to make in our series of video tips on working ...
- Looking at Shapes in a New Way in Photoshp and PSE
The past few weeks, we’ve been working through our series of video tips that will show you how to work with shapes to create interesting accents for your digital projects. Sometimes making a new shape just means looking at old shapes in a new way. Photoshop and Elements come preloaded ...
- Creating Shapes That Look Hand Cut in Photoshop and PSE
This week, we’ll continue our series of video tips that will show you how to work with shapes to create interesting accents for your digital projects. We are celebrating the perfectly imperfect with shapes that are not quite square or not quite round – shapes that look like you c ...
- Creating an Offset Circle Frame in Photoshop or PSE
Last week, we began a new series of video tips that will show you how to work with shapes to create interesting accents for your digital projects. The series continues with this tip for making funky little frames with circles. To create an offset circle frame, begin by opening a new documen ...
- Creating a Rounded Rectangle Frame
When a viewer emailed me to ask how to make a rounded rectangle frame, I thought it would be a great topic for the tip of the week. And then I thought it would make an even better series! This week is the first of a number of tips will show you how to work with shapes to create simple and in ...
- Selecting One Layer Above or Below Your Targeted Layer in Photoshop & PSE
When we play our son’s favorite new board game, we move the characters up or down layers of the Pyramid to win the game. In Photoshop and Elements, you can win by selecting a layer above or below your current layer with a simple shortcut. Begin by opening a document with several layers. ...
- Creating Yankee Doodled Key-lines in Photoshop and PSE
Last week’s tip focused on creating a thin box around a layout or photo. This week, we’ll alter the key-lines to make them look a little less perfect, creating a less formal look. Open a document and create a very thin key-line. Use a dark color to make the line. Select the key ...
- How to Create Key-lines (Boxes) in Photoshop & PSE
Several weeks ago, a reader emailed me to ask how to create a thin box around the inside edge of her layout or around a photo. In desktop publishing, these boxes are known as key-lines and they are very easy to make in Photoshop and Elements. Begin by opening your project in Photoshop or Ele ...
- How to Use the Eyedropper Tool Outside of Photoshop and PSE
Over the last few weeks, our tips have focused on using the Color Swatches Panel to select colors for your digital projects. This week, we’ll pull color from a website or document by dragging the Eyedropper tool outside of the software. When you are working on a digital project and ...
- How to Rename and Delete Color Swatches
Is it time to make a change? The designers of Photoshop and Elements give you the power to make changes to many functions of the software. The Color Swatch Panel is one area that can be customized to fit your moods and needs. To change the name of a Color swatch, double-click or right-cli ...
- How to Create a Custom Color Swatch
One of the things I like most about Photoshop and Elements is the ability to customize the workspace and personalize my projects. Last week, we started our series of Swatch Watch tips by selecting custom Foreground and Background colors. This week, we continue exploring how to personalize th ...
- How to choose Foreground and Background Colors
School is out and summer time is here! Our cameras get a workout this time of the year – photographing summertime activities and sights. From brightly colored beach balls to azure blue skies, golden sunsets to candy-colored Snow-cones, our photos and scrapbooks will be awash in color. ...
- Decluttering Editing Windows by Hiding Panels
Where we live, it is spring. With the beautiful spring weather comes the annual ritual of spring cleaning. I always enjoy the fresh, decluttered look when we are finished. When you are working in Photoshop and Elements, it’s sometimes nice to view your project without all of the clu ...
- How to view an image close-up and full size at the same time
When you are tweaking details on an image, it’s sometimes difficult to get a feel for how the overall results look as you are working. To see both the details and the actual size image, open the image in a second window in Photoshop or Elements. Zoom in on one document and set the other ...
- How to Move Sliders Incrementally in Photoshop and PSE
Now that it is spring, the local park is full of children enjoying themselves on the playground equipment. The slide seems to be a favorite year after year. Some children like to fly down them as fast as they can, while others use their sneakers as brakes and scoot down the incline in slower ...
- How to Save Project Pieces to a New Folder in Photoshop and Elements
This week, a customer wrote with an interesting dilemma in Photoshop Elements. She was working on a digital project and had chosen a number of digital papers and embellishments to use. As it often happens, she was interrupted before she could finish her project. She wondered if there was a q ...
- How to Use Digital Paper Clips
This week, a customer emailed me to ask how to make the paper clips look like they are clipped to paper. I thought it would make a great video topic for our weekly tip. When you purchase a kit or element set with paper clips inside, the clips are whole, complete clips. So when you drag a ...
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