Entries Categorized as 'tutorials'

How to use Bravenet hosting

Date May 28, 2008

Bravenet started out as a very small company offering tons of free scripts and tools. They must have made money to employ more people through their ads. Now they are both a site with a huge number of free web master tools and they have just gone into hosting, as you will see on the [...]

Using Adjust Color for Skin Tone in Photoshop Elements

Date May 12, 2008

Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 again, here is how you can automatically adjust the skin tone of a person in a photo. This photo is of me taken with flash after a 40 degree day and after finally getting into the air conditioned Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open tennis at a night [...]

Screen capture utility

Date May 10, 2008

I downloaded a 30 day trial of the TNT screen capture utility. It is great! Much better than anything else out there for free.
Here’s what it can do
· Capture anything and everything
· Editing tools and graphical object
· XP screenshots with rounded corners
· Smooth [...]

Using the Magic Extractor

Date May 8, 2008

If you only want to edit photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is probably your best bet. It is much cheaper than Photoshop and has almost as many features, if not a few more to do with photos, albums, printing, collages etc.
I bought a magazine the other day called ” Photoshop Elements Essentials” and it had [...]

Use magnetic lasso tool to highlight sections in photos

Date May 5, 2008

Personally I am a bit of a purist when it comes to photos, but recently I’ve had photos rejected from the sites I upload to and I’ve realized that everyone is photoshopping their photos now.
Here is a tutorial on highlighting a section of the photo and making the rest decolourized. This may work for say [...]