Adobe Photoshop Elements is a slimmed down version of Photoshop. As irreverent as this may sound, it is more a feature than a drawback. Photoshop Elements shines in simplicity and power at the same time. Photoshop Elements is mainly oriented to amateur designers and casual photographers and it lacks all the print production features among many other tools. On the other side, it offers a number of simplified tools aimed to the beginner or casual user but with the same professional results you can achieve with a full version of Adobe Photoshop.
This article is a compilation of some of the best Photoshop Elements tutorials around the web and some of the best Photoshop Elements web sites. If you know about any Photoshop Elements tutorials that have not been included here, please share them with us by leaving a link at the comments section.
I always stated that Photo Effects and Text Effects were the most popular Photoshop topics around. When I decided to create this list I thought that I’d have a hard time to find tutorials with a reasonable quality.
Well, that was not the case. In my way I found Mysterious woods inhabited with magical fairies, dragons and mythical creatures flying on fantasy night skies, magic crystal balls, hats and other objects hidden in strange houses. Making it short, an immense amount of imaginative scenes that filled my senses and made my work not only easier, but enjoyable too!
Superheroes illustrations and posters are always related to cool special effects, fast and explosive action scenes and artistic illustration techniques. It is a surprise that not many Photoshop artists decided to create tutorials about this topic. Yes, you can find a lot of superheroes signatures tutorials that rely on an image created by another artist or speed painting demonstrations that have little or no value other than making us villain green with envy.
Despite of that, here’s a list of spectacular superheroes themed Photoshop tutorials that don’t require superpowers to complete.
I’m sure we all share the frustration of trying to get some acceptable results from the Watercolor Photoshop Plugin that is bundled with the default Photoshop installation.
As with most of those plugins, to achieve reasonable results you have to go farther than applying a single plugin. These 15 watercolor effects Photoshop tutorials will show you how to create beautiful watercolor paintings from your photos.
Portrait effects are no longer constrained to vignettes or simple stencil effects. This area has vertiginously evolved to an unbelievable level of creativity and complexity. So, don’t expect to find your average two step special effect. Many of these require a lot of work, which in the end will result in a lot of Photoshop techniques learned.
As usual, don’t try this with your average bad quality family photos. These effects require good quality high resolution images to obtain optimum results.
In this selection of Photoshop tutorials, we are going to explore the creativity behind posters creation. Blending typography with images in a creative way, the proper usage of color and the effective communication of the message are, without a doubt, some of the most important lessons we can learn from poster design. Let’s check some interesting movie, music and art posters Photoshop tutorials. Read the rest of this article…
Some time ago, I wrote this article for PSD Magazine. It was published in a special Photoshop Starter issue of this magazine on January 2007. For those who didn’t have the chance of reading it, here´s the full article:
The Color Replacement brush is a tool that lets you paint with one color over another color, keeping the brightness and contrast of the image. This way you can easily change the color of an object without using complex masking and color correction tools.
We are going to replace the color of these beach parasols from blue to red and leave the yellow part untouched. Read the rest of this article…
It is true that Photo Effects is perhaps the most popular Photoshop topic today. And it is also true that after we applied an effect to a photo, we are tempted to "wrap it up" like a gift.
Adding frames to photos is a way to enhance the image in an artistic way. This article is a selection of some beautiful frames, edges and borders Photoshop resources you can apply to your photo albums.
A couple of months ago I wrote an article for my Creative Closeup blog about 20 Irresistible Gadgets You´d Love to Own. One of those gadgets that caught my attention was a cute little CD printer: DYMO DiscPainter. The article was a hit and generated a lot of traffic, specially from Reddit and StumbleUpon.
The nice people at Dymo were so pleased with this mention that they sent me one to try it. I was instantly hooked on it. The ease of setup and use of this printer is amazing. Believe me, the installation was a breeze and within minutes I had my first CD colorful label printed.
Last year, I compiled a very popular list of 80 Photoshop Text effects. Since then, a lot of new and spectacular text effects tutorials have been created. Not much more to add to this statement. Just take a look at this new roundup of 30 Awesome Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials.
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