(Originally Posted: by Jennifer Barlow (7/11/2009)
Scenario: You ask your friend to snap a photo of you, and Uggh… When you take a look at the digital photo, your pupils are bright red and you look like a scary, smiling demon! Not only that, but the photo is slightly blurred, the room looks dark, and the [...]
Layers are essential if you want to work with any graphics!
Can you imagine how you would ever make changes to a photo or create a digital scrapbooking page if you didn’t have a graphics program that could work with layers?!
If you didn’t have layers then there would be no way to change the placement [...]
Here are some basic photo tips that you might find helpful.
Tip 1: Scan all your old photos and turn them into digital versions. Photos fade, and can even get lost ! So preserve those old photos by scanning them and turning them into a digital version you can make a backup copy of! Here [...]
Here is some Photoshop History:
Can you believe Photoshop is 20 years old!!! I can’t!
Photoshop is just a little younger than my own kids — they (both my children and Photoshop) have grown up so quickly! Time flies!
So have you ever wondered how Photoshop got started? how it grew, and where it is now? If so [...]
Get tips for fixing common scanning problems
Many of us digital scrapbookers have been trying to scan old photos and turn them into digital versions of the same photos.
Many of us want to take a photo that isn’t digital, and scan it and turn it into a digital photo so we can use the new digital [...]
If you have been following our articles, then yesterday we talked about how to straighten a photo in Photoshop Elements, however, that really doesn’t help Photoshop users. In many ways Element and Photoshop are alike but in Photoshop you straighten a crooked photo using a completely different tool!
So if you have been interested in how [...]
Have you ever scanned an old photo and got it crooked? Have you ever taken a photo that wasn’t straight too? Do you want to know how to straighten it in Photoshop Elements 8?
Here is how to fix a crooked photo in Elements:
Step 1: Bring the crooked photo into Photoshop Elements workspace.
Here I have scanned [...]
Since we are into saving memories, and taking and fixing photos this desire to preserve family history spills over into saving home movies too!
If you bought a camcorder in the ’80s or ’90s and filmed every birthday, graduation, school events, and random family event in between, you probably have a big box of VHS [...]
Yesterday’s blog talked about taking the family to an aquarium, and today’s blog article is going to cover a few photo tips that are special to aquarium photography.
Aquarium photography can be one of the hardest challenges for a photographer.
Here are some of the reasons these shots are difficult – the lighting in these situations are [...]
When we travel to a fun vacation to the beach and ocean we probably try to get lots of photos to remember our wonderful vacation.
However, some of the photos we bring home aren’t digital scrapbooking worthy. Some of them need some improvement before we can add them to our digital scrapbooking projects!
Summer at the [...]
