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 How to Make Your Own Printables with Brushes and Digital Embellishments
This year’s holiday prep series begins with a tip for using brushes and elements in a different way – to make printable sheets. Whether you are crafting your own holiday cards, hybrid scrapbook pages or holiday crafts, you can use brushes and digital elements to create sheets of pri ...
- How to Rearrange Brushes in Photoshop and PSE
Have you ever wished you could change the order of the brushes in the brush picker window? As it turns out, you can! Select Edit > Preset Manager > Brushes. From there, you can just click and drag your brushes to rearrange them. If you decide later you don’t like the order, you can ...
- How to Make Multiple Copies of a Layer in Photoshop and PSE
Here’s a quick tip to help you speed up your workflow when you want to copy a layer several times. Begin by selecting the layer you want to duplicate. Hold the Ctrl and Alt keys then press and hold one of the arrow keys. (Mac: Cmd Opt Arrow key.) As long as you hold the keys down, Photosh ...
- How to Find the Transform Handles in Photoshop or PSE
When you drag a photo onto a layered template, sometimes the transform controls are hidden in the grey area outside the document. This week in our series on getting more from layered templates, we’ll show you how to work efficiently with a shortcut that solves this problem in Photoshop an ...
- How to Use Part of a Template on Another Project in Photoshop or PSE
This week, we are continuing our series on using layered templates more efficiently by mixing and matching parts of templates to come up with a new design. Begin by opening a digital project or a new document. Then open a template that contains an element, text path or title you’d like to ...
- Covering Several Template Blocks With One Photo in Photoshop and PSE
A number of readers have written in asking how to use one photo to cover several placeholders in a template. Today’s tip walks you through the process. Begin by opening a template and make a copy of it so you don’t accidentally overwrite the original. In Photoshop, choose Image > ...
- Turning and Flipping Templates in Photoshop and PSE
This week, we are continuing a series of tips on getting more from layered templates. Today’s tip shows you how to change the look of a template simply by turning or flipping it. This is a great way to stretch your scrapbooking budget and give album pages a cohesive look. Flipping your t ...
- Resizing Templates in Photoshop and PSE
This week, we are beginning a new series on getting more from layered templates. I’ll be answering the most frequently asked questions we’ve received about how to use and alter layered templates in Photoshop and Elements. The most commonly asked question is how to resize layered te ...
- Aligning Images in Photoshop and Elements
Today’s tip is an answer to a question that came up on our Message Boards this week: how to perfectly align two or more layers. This is especially useful when you are matting a photo or element on your digital project. To align objects, open two or more images in Photoshop or Elements and ...
- Temporary Zoom Tools in Photoshop and PSE
The year is zooming by and the holiday season will be here before we know it. Here’s a tip to help you zoom along in Photoshop and Elements. When you are working with any tool, you can temporarily change it to the Zoom In tool by pressing Ctrl Spacebar (Mac: Cmd Spacebar.) Holding the key ...
- 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 ...
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