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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 [...]

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 [...]

Do you love using Photoshop for digital scrapbooking or to edit photos?
Would you like to do things a bit quicker? If so, then check out a few of these handy shortcuts in Photoshop to speed up your workflow!
A Few Handy Photoshop Shortcuts:
Ctrl+Z – Undo last step
Ctrl + A Select All
Ctrl+D – Deselect
Shift + Ctrl+I [...]

If you have been following along with our blog articles then hopefully you saw the article yesterday on how to use the undo step feature in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements – (Quick Tip: Experiment More, Use the Undo Steps Feature in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements!).
This is a fantastic feature for photo editing and digital scrapbooking.
This [...]

Do you love using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create your own digital scrapbooking supplies or to edit photos?  One of the great features of both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements is that if you don’t like the effects or changes that you have done on a photo or scrapbooking supply, you can always undo [...]

It is hard to believe that Photoshop Elements does not have a spelling checker especially when Photoshop does and when Elements is really the tool for Digital Scrapbookers!
This seems to be a big oversight especially since lots of text is written each day in Photoshop Elements as we all make lots of digital scrapbooking [...]

I was surprised to learn the other day that Photoshop has a spelling checker!
I guess because I knew that Photoshop Elements doesn’t have a spelling checker I just assumed Photoshop didn’t either!
Wrong!
Photoshop does have a spelling checker.
This can be a big help when you are digital scrapbooking! A misspelled word is so easy to [...]

Sometimes when opening Photoshop Elements do you ever get tired of having to deal with the Welcome Screen? I do!
It seems to slow me down so I often wish I could go directly to the Editor in Photoshop Elements 8. Sadly, the Welcome screen doesn’t seem to completely disappear but you can more directly go [...]

Quick Tip: Filter Tip 6 Previewing Multiple Filters at Once in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

Previewing a Filter Effect in Photoshop and Elements