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Your Swiss Army Knife for Photoshop Elements - over 70 of the most-requested tools from Photoshop
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!
Over 30 ways to play - Fun Foto FX creates the best effects for your images!
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!)
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!
Framer offers 24 ways to create frames, borders, outlines and vignettes around your photos
Graffi's Sketchy Paint offers 28 paint, crayon, pencil, sketch & watercolor effects for Photoshop Elements!
This tutorial will explain how to bake make a delicious gingerbread cookies inspired text effect, using layer styles, some filters, and a couple of other simple elements. Ready? The Final Result: Notes: * the software used in this tutorial is Adobe Photoshop CS6, but you can use CS3+ versions as well. * you might want [...]
A few signs that Autumn is on the way:
You probably noticed from the screenshot that there’s an entirely new interface, and a nifty Actions palette.
Many things have been rearranged and reorganized, so getting around this new version (at least for previous users of Photoshop Elements) may take a few exploratory trips through the various panels and menus.
And how about that nice light grey color scheme..!
As I’m writing this, AOM is going through a few facelifts of its own. Here’s what to look for in the new Add-O-Matic 11:
Look for it in in early October, and as always leave a few comments and feature requests – now is the time!
Here’sa set of 21 layer styles that have been laying around the workshop for awhile. There’s a variety of designs here that you can use on text, shapes, or anything else you add to your graphics.
For a full preview, click the thumbnail. It shows each of the layer styles applied to a shape and to text. There’s also a “null” style included that will remove all layer styles from the layer so you can try a different one.
To install them into Photoshop Elements, simply download and unzip the package, drag them into your Add-O-Matic Which does all the heavy lifting for you, and they’ll show up in your Effects palette in the Layer Styles section. use the drop menu to navigate to “Graffi Styles”.
Enjoy!
Iwas asked recently to make an action that will create a new document for Scrapbook size (12” x 12”). In the North American version of Elements 8, that size is already there as a preset (click File>New>Blank , and choose it from the drop menu) so there’s no need for an action (although I can make one if you really want it….)
If you live in a place that isn’t the US, you can add this size by copying and pasting the code below into the file mentioned.
Open the file Default New Doc Sizes.txt located here in PSE 7 & 8:
Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements #\Locales\[your locale]\Support Files\
Scroll to the bottom of it (or within another section of the file – it will appear in the menu wherever you put it in this file):
;---------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Standard scrapbook sizes ;---------------------------------------------------------------------- "scrapbook" "12 in x 12 in" 12.0 12.0 inches 300 dpi unchanged 0 1.0 "8 in x 8 in" 8.0 8.0 inches 300 dpi unchanged 0 1.0 "6 in x 6 in" 6.0 6.0 inches 300 dpi unchanged 0 1.0 ?
If you want to add additional sizes, copy the format above and add the size you want. For a 5 in x 5 in 300 dpi document, for example, you would just add the line
"5 in x 5 in" 5.0 5.0 inches 300 dpi unchanged 0 1.0
If you will never, ever use a 6 x 6 or 8 x 8 document, simply place a ‘;’ at the beginning of those lines to force PSE to ignore them.
I like to make custom thumbnails, and even though PSE doesn’t care what size the .png is (see this article for reference), I like to keep them a common size – 64 x 64 px is the old standard.
So to my file, I added
"64 x 64" 64 64 pixels screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
and my preset is there.
One final note – be sure to save the file in Unicode format, or Elements won’t be able to read it. Also, be sure to save a backup of the original just restore if anything goes wrong!
