Dark Side of the Lens

As I mentioned in my last video, I see layers as being about the most powerful tool there is in Photoshop, Elements, and all the good photo editing packages. Within the topic of layers there are two specific areas that I would define as being the most powerful aspects of layers. These are layer masks [...]

I have had several requests from people (thank you) for some tutorials on using layers in Photoshop Elements. I had intended to leave this until a little later in the piece, but there’s no harm in bringing it forward a little, so here we go. This first video explains the basic principles. Some of you [...]

I have finally found the time to put up a set of better quality video tutorials for the three tutorials published so far. Yay!!! The content is the same as the ones you will find in the main blog posts but they are now available in 800 x 600 as Quicktime movie files.

A bit of a gap since my last video, thanks to a nasty case of the flu doing the rounds robbing me of my voice (must have also affected my hearing as I didn’t hear anyone being sorry about that!). So, here we go with my latest offering. Unless you frame every shot perfectly (can [...]

Adjusting the colors in your image is an area of photo editing that many find time consuming and very confusing.  However, it need not be that way. Here I give an explanation of the RGB color space, which you will most likely find yourself using. The principles discussed here apply to all photo editing software [...]

So, here we go. A short video tutorial (5:14) giving an overview of the basic user interface of Elements 6.0. Click on the image to take you to the video. For the moment the video is only available as a Flash video (400 x 300 pixels). However, I will be putting up larger versions (800 [...]