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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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Fantasy Spring Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple brush, then modify its settings, in order to create a nice fantasy spring fresh text effect. The Final Result: Notes: * the software used in this tutorial is Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended * the size of the final result image is 1024 * 768 * [...]

Making of James Wolf Strehle’s ‘Twisted Room’ image

James Wolf Strehle gives us a unique look at his workflow in the making of his Photoshop digital painting ‘Twisted Room’.

Painting Magic Effects – Halo by Mike (Daarken) Lim

Fantasy art legend Mike (Daarken) Lim shows us the techniques that he uses to paint a halo effect in Photoshop.

Customize Your Own Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Whether you are a newbie or a seasoned user of Photoshop, wouldn’t it be nice to make things a little easier on yourself by customizing a shortcut template? Practically everything in here can be designated to attach keyboard shortcuts; from Commands to Menu Bar options and everything in between and beyond. Or, if you like just modify Adobe’s pre-existing shortcuts for a personalized touch.

Author: Steve Patterson at Photoshop Essentials

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Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography

Material Image In this tutorial you will learn some photo manipulation techniques to enhance portrait photography.

Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Learn To Create A Ribbon Style Header

Material Image In todays quick and easy tutorial you will learn how easy it is to create a simple ribbon style header which can be used in a number of ways for your websites.

Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Photoshop Tutorial: Learn Layered Text Effect in Simple 5 Steps

Material Image In this tutorial you will learn how to create layered text effect in simple 5 steps.
Type: Photoshop Tutorials
Level: Beginner

Design a Basic Alien

This looks to be a Basic Tutorial in Photoshop, in this tutorial we are going to make Alien. A lot of tools involved in making this tutorial, some Filters, Layer Styles, Blending Options to use in making this tutorial. Hopefully it will give you a lot of knowledge about Photoshop.

Learn To Create A Ribbon Style Header

Good evening, in todays quick and easy tutorial I’ll be showing you how easy it is to create a simple ribbon style header which can be used in a number of ways for your websites.

Type that’s fit to eat

Here Radim Malinic shows you how to create the semblance of words spelt out in melted chocolate. You’ll be encouraged to speed up at times, while at other times you’ll need to linger over tiny details to create that ultra-realistic look, fit for any advertising campaign or logo.