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I was poking about on Creating Keepsakes website this afternoon, and found this great video tutorial from Jessica Sprague. CLICK HERE to read her article! If you read down far enough, you’ll see there’s a FREE KIT from of Michelle Coleman from LittleDreamerDesigns.com. There’s no preview, but I downloaded it and it’s cute!  Over 4 [...]

Taking you back to the 80′s – remember Cindy Lauper’s version of that song? Well, I’m always on the lookout for color combos that would make interesting kits – and there are a zillion color schemers out there – but did you know some sites will let you download an .aco (swatch) file? I’m starting [...]

I’m working on a slide show for our friends who are celebrating their 20th anniversary tomorrow night – here is the end slide.  I actually used three different fonts to put the word art together – and it can be a REAL pain to choose fonts.  I’m the kind of person who needs to SEE [...]

One of the most confusing things I think is explaining to students how you need to use the UNSHARP MASK filter to SHARPEN an image!  Today I came across a tutorial that explains it so well – better than I could hope to!  Watch this image to see how you can improve a photo… just [...]

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 [...]

Oh admit it!  You have your favorites… well maybe you love all your KIDS the same, but I KNOW you have favorite kits or folders that you go to all the time.  And if you’re like me, you have to click and click to get to them sometimes.  But did you know there’s a shortcut?? [...]

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 [...]

I wanted to share with you what I did tonight – this is my first effort with this technique, and I’m fairly pleased with the results! First I took this image: and made it into a cartoon: THEN turned that into the cover of our middle school cookbook: I’m hoping the cookbook committee likes it! [...]

Here’s a DaddyKitty Quick Tip: Ever have a photo like this? It’s easy to fix using either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (all versions). Go to Image – Adjustments – Shadow/Highlights. You get this menu: Notice that the more you move the shadow amount slider to the right, the lighter the shadows will get. The more [...]

For digiscrappers, the gold standard of image editing programs is Adobe Photoshop. But the price! Retail cost of a basic version of Photoshop CS3 (most current version) is $649 while Elements is only $149. (Street price is a even greater difference – $619 vs. $80-90 although you can get educational discounts.) So do you need [...]