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A super fast tip this week. Ever have a lot of windows open in Photoshop or Elements and wanted to close them all?

Stan White the DaddyKitty here with a quick tip showing the use of layer blending modes. A Layer What mode? Yes, a Layer Blending Mode.

Bet you didn’t know this but Jenn, the ScrapKitty herself, was one of the key alpha testers of Adobe Photoshop. The team at Adobe was so grateful they actually included her in the credits: Here’s a close up: (and no, it’s not Photoshopped):

Do you know about the Custom Shape Tool in Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements? Lots of digiscrappers and hybrid scrappers do. But did you know you are not stuck with

Spring is here, summer is near and I’m TRYING to get some kind of order in this house! I need to get my ‘digital home’ in order too, so I thought I’d share a tip for keeping all those credits with your layouts. This week’s Tip is a workflow tip – something to make your [...]

As you advance in digiscrapping, you get a lot of kits. And elements, and papers. It’s hard to keep them all organized. Last week I showed everyone how to do a contact sheet using Adobe Photoshop (See post here). This week we’ll look at how to do the same using Photoshop Elements. It’s similar but [...]

We’ve been away from straight Photoshop and Elements tips recently so here’s a great one. Some fonts in both Photoshop and Elements come with a full range of styles: changes to the typeface like bold or italic that provide emphasis for the type. But a lot of digiscrappers use specialty fonts that don’t have styles. [...]

Ok, FINALLY, I got all my tutorials together in one place for you!  I’ve written some of these for classes, some for my Tricks of the Trade Challenge at SOTB   – but I put them all on one page HERE for you!  You might want to bookmark this, as I’ll update it when I have [...]

We delayed this tip a week so Jenn could post her great 2 for 1 Daily Download series! One of the most satisfying aspects of writing for this blog is remembering all the cool Photoshop or Elements stuff tucked somewhere way back in my little old head. Here’s one that is a HUGE timesaver and [...]

I’m a great believer in using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3 or Elements to work more efficiently and quickly. Here’s two great ones: Ever wanted to quickly duplicate a layer and make a new one? Instead of selecting the layer, copying it, creating a new layer, and pasting, just hit Ctrl-J (Command-J on a Mac) [...]