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 [...]

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You can use many graphic programs to alter the brightness or darkness of a photo, but usually only using an auto feature. You can get some quite interesting effects if you use Curves in Photo shop. Once again, I’m using Photo shop 7.

That’s too dark a picture, so:
1. Go to Layer>New adjustment layer>Curves
2. Click group [...]

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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 [...]

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1. Open Photoshop.
2. Create a new file with 200 x 200 size with 72 resolution and RGB mode. Background content should be WHITE.
3. Check out Layer palette. It will show the locked background layer. We will not do anything with background layer now.
4. Create a new layer.
5. Select the background layer and DELETE it using [...]

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1. Create a new image at 2×2 pixels in white.
2. With the pencil tool, make a 1 pixel dot at the top left corner and another one at the bottom right corner of the image in the colour that you want to make semi transparent.
3. Define the image as a pattern.
4. Create another new image [...]

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