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Thereare several Photoshop CS3 tools hidden away in Photoshop Elements 7, and many of them (including Layer Masks, Channel Mixer, Black & White Adjustments & Curves) are unlocked by the actions available in Handy Actions and Handy Actions Lite. But that's really just a small sampling of the things the Adobe folks have hidden away within the consumer version of their industry standard....

Another way to do an old effect. This one is complementary to the several sketch/comic/painted effects found in Sketchy-Paint 3

I got to noodling around again with some of the actions I've got loaded into my Photoshop Elements 6, and arrived at an interesting multi-effect in just four steps.

Probablythe single most-sent email message I receive runs along these lines: "Hey, Graffi:  I have Photoshop Elements x.x and I like the actions in your blog.  Where do I put them in Elements to make them work?"  (The second-most received message I get usually goes something like "Hey Graffi: I downloaded the actions from your blog and put them in Elements but they're not showing up - what can I do?").

Of course, my answer is to use the Add-O-Matic, which will automatically sort and place - along with a generic thumbnail & the required .xml file - the actions so they appear in the Effects palette and the new Actions Player in Elements 7. At around $10, it really is the simplest solution for adding Actions, Shapes, Styles, Brushes, .8bf-format plug-ins, and many more esoteric items like Color Swatches and Curve shapes.