Add-O-Matic

The world's first and only add-on installer for Windows versions of Photoshop Elements, and now Lightroom too! Quickly and easily get all your extra goodies into Elements with a drag, a drop and GO!

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Handy Actions

Your Swiss Army Knife for Photoshop Elements - over 70 of the most-requested tools from Photoshop

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Photo Lab

Photo Lab offers 39 ways to enhance your images, from crisp B&W to soft dreamy effects to desaturated and sepia toning. Check it out!

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Fun Foto FX

Over 30 ways to play - Fun Foto FX creates the best effects for your images!

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Glam Photo

56 effects (yes, 56!) are in this self-installing effects pack. With the Glam Photo FX Pack, you can create a huge variety of glamourous looks for your photos (and they work well on landscapes, too!)

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Splitter

16 ways to slice, dice & chop your photos, from simple splits to more complex chops and slices to torn in half or split three ways. Splitter helps you create interesting display options for you photos!

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Framer

Framer offers 24 ways to create frames, borders, outlines and vignettes around your photos

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Sketchy Paint

Graffi's Sketchy Paint offers 28 paint, crayon, pencil, sketch & watercolor effects for Photoshop Elements!

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Daily Archives: April 20, 2010

Design an Awesome Fantasy Floating Mountain Scene in Photoshop

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 15 views
Material Image [span]Editor’s Pick of April, 2010[/span][br]Behold a few photo collage tricks and techniques to come with a composite visual composition that can have an absolutely stunning look by simply adjusting the color balance.
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

The Big Phat Outline Effect – so Cool and Easy

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 15 views
Material Image You like this cool outline effect? So do I – and the fun part is that it takes about 2 seconds to do!
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Making Your Photos Worthy of Framing

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 12 views
Material Image This tutorial will show you how to make your photos worthy of framing.
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

How to Add Motion to your Image

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 19 views
Material Image The effect you’ll learn to use in this tutorial helps to intensify the idea of motion and at the same time creates a new background void of unnecessary detail. The tool used is the simple Radial Blur Filter.
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

How to Create your own Custom Brush in PhotoShop

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 12 views
Material Image Use brush on old fashioned, real white paper to make some more or less straight lines. Scan them in gray or B&W mode on 300 pix/inch resolution.
You should get an image that looks like this:
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Fantasy Butterflies – How it’s Done, The Recipe

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 23 views
Material Image OK. So for those of you who want to do everything by yourself, here is the tutorial, or should I say – a recipe!
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Cut and Paste Options

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 11 views
Material Image The most important thing to master in Photoshop is how to perform perfect cut/paste operations.You may want to try effects, or illustration, a great pic is always simple, and CLEAN. No blurry edges.
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Layer Blending Optons

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 21 views
Material Image As you may have noticed, the bevel option is very very cool, as it lets you make a pasted object more realistic, though it is more obvious when it is set with a background, so the depth cue is more obvious.
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

2,010 FREE Photoshop Brushes

Posted by on April 20, 2010 1 comment | 100 views

Get set for 2,010 (!!) free Photoshop brushes in nine categories: Spray and Paint; Light Streaks and Effects; People; Abstract; Grunge; Space and Sky; Vintage; Doodles; and Paper. All of the brushes are ready for CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop

Posted by on April 20, 2010 No comments | 20 views

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a retro-style poster in Photoshop. We’ll use custom brushes, multiple images, different blending modes and applying different layer styles. This tutorial is great for those looking for some quick Photoshop brush practice. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get it started!