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Janee's -New- Photoshop Tutorials

While most of the tutorials below are very relevant even with today's Photoshop, there will be outdated parts, screenshots that are in need of updating, and features that are different or non-existent. I have labeled some of these "Obsolete" below. I keep these just for historical interest.

Please, if you come across some glaring error or omission, feel free to email Janee at the link in the header.

Tutorials for Elements

Shapes

for the beginner with Photoshop. Hey, you have to start somewhere! Fun with circles and squares!
Basic Shapes

Pearly Button
Pearly Button

Show me a Sign
Show me a Sign

What's the Vector, Victor?
What's the Vector?

Custom Shapes 1
Custom Shapes

Custom Shapes 2
More Custom Shapes

Lines will are the topic for this beginner's tutorial. Can't draw a straight line? Well good! Come on and I'll show you how!
Seventies Trees


Post-It Note

Remember those folded-paper snowflakes? Make 'em in your computer! 
Snowflake

Transparent Capsule
Transparent Capsule

Pen Tools

Drawing with the Freeform Pen
Freeform Pen

Celebrate your love for your sweetie using the Pen Tool! Awww come on. It is time you learned how to use this cool little tool. Do one or all four!
Hearts (Pen Tool)

Love your pen... and enlarge a logo!
Reproduce a Logo

Get those angles precise by using my little computer protractor! 
Seeing Stars

Brushes


Crayon Effect


Managing your Brushes

Brushes of Photoshop 7-8
Brushes of PS 7+

Have a Ball... and make one in Photoshop 7-8
Have a Ball

Color like an Impressionist!
Impressionist Painting

Photorealism... painting what you see
Photorealistic Painting

Create a stitched effect in Photoshop 7-8
Stitches

Make a Copyright Signature brush
Copyright Signature Brush

How to draw one of these beautiful designs from scratch! 
Celtic Knots

Flowers along a path... how to make a brushstroke follow a path you create.
Follow the Path

fun text tricks in Photoshop... making text into a custom brush
Text Tricks

Make a jet contrail that says what you want!
Jet Contrails

Lettering & Text Effects

The text editing in PS 6 - 8 is amazing. Explore some of what it can do!
Type Tool Tricks

Class up your act with antique gold text! 
Antique Gold Text

Gel Text
Gel Text

Create this stunning effect yourself! Jeweled Gold Text
Jeweled

Use layers to accomplish this neat effect. Linked letters
Linked Letters

Postcard Text 1
Postcard Text by Brute Force

Postcard Text 2
Postcard Text by Clipping Group

Postcard Text 3
Postcard Text by Paste Into

Textures & Special Effects

Crumpled Paper		 Torn Paper
Torn Paper		 Bursting through paper
Burst Through Paper		 Folded paper
Folded Paper

curled paper edge
Curled Edge


Bulletin Board, Frame, Pin


Labeling a Bottle

(Obsolete)

Scan a piece of wood? Why bother? Make your own!
Wood

Natural looking rainbows
Rainbow

Start with some gradients and combine them with PS's Blending Modes to create Amazing Gradients!
Amazing Gradients

Spirals
Spirals

Make your own rain!
Raindrops

Working with Patterns.
Patterns

Make your own wallpaper or background for your webpage! Two approaches to this.
Seamless Tiles

Seamless tilings
Seamless Tiles Too

Learn how to use patterns to create TV lines.
TV Lines

Hexagonal or "beehive" tilings
Hex Tilings

Reflections in sunglasses. Too cool!
Sunglass reflections

animations using ImageReady
Animation

(Obsolete)

Photo Fixing & Restoring

Using the rubber stamp tool, smudge, and color correction to enhance a photo.
Retouching 1

Photo retouching using the Patch and healing tools
Retouching 2

Bring an old photo back to its original condition (or come pretty close).
Restoration

Eyes closed? Stupid expression? No worry.. just replace the person's head!
New Head

Just one way to cut a hairy subject out to put her on another background.
Remove Background

several ways to make selections, including some ways to make particularly difficult selections.
Selections and Removing BG

Correcting uneven lighting
Tonal Correction

Using Adjustment Layers to correct images... and come up with some far-out effects!
Adjustment Layers

This method, while limited, will sometimes work for red-eye in people as well. ;)
Fixing Demonic Pet Eyes

Photo Art


Over the Edge


Adding Rays of Light


Breaking out of a Frame

Give a face a different texture. Here, we make a wooden man!
Wooden Expression

Make a Line Drawing from a photo.. 2 ways
Photo > Line Drawing

Create a hand-painted portrait look from a snapshot. (Use PS 6 for this for best results.)
Photo > Oil

creating a duotone composite
Duotone

Make a new photo look like one that was taken in 1895 with a sepia-toning effect!
Sepia Toning and Masking

Create a special look for your photo with burned edges!
Burned Edge

Making a photo into a painting
Photo > Painting

porcelain effect
Porcelain Effect

Want to add something to a photo? Here we use layer masks to make it "fit".
Photo Composition

Make a favorite photo into a watercolor look-alike.
Photo > Watercolor

Using Filters... some Janee tips
Filter Fun

Make a favorite photo into a pen and inked watercolor in Photoshop.
Photo > Paint-ink

Create that cool montage effect with your own photos
Fading Photos Together

Do you have a picture that you want to show off? Mat and frame it to make it a masterpiece!
Framing

Nifty Ideas, General Topics, Actions, and Specific Tools


Action for Rule of Thirds

Keeping your Colors Safe... for the web, and for print!
Safe Colors


How toCopy/Paste

Interface with Rollovers

(Obsolete)


Cropping Tips

Saving for the Web
Save for Web

Transparent GIFs
Save Transparency

Make an Action to mark the center of your canvas.
Action to Mark Center


 

Check out Ask the Goddess and the Ask the Goddess Archives for many more great Janeetips!

Photoshop Classes from Janee

If you like my tutorials and you are the sort of person who likes to learn in an "orderly" way while meeting and working with other people, then I am SURE you will like my Photoshop classes!

I am in the process of retooling these for the '20's! Stay tuned to my blog for more info!

The tutorials should stand pretty well on their own. If something "out of sequence" appeals to you, go ahead and do it! If something does NOT appeal to you, though, rather than just skipping it, go and look at the objectives at the beginning of the tutorial and see if there is something there that you really need to know/practice. You might find that the tutorial is cooler than you thought from glancing at the title. 

I separated the drawing tutorials from the photo manipulation ones because some people are more interested in one area than in the other. I urge you to try your hand at both though. I will not hear any of that "But I can't drawwwwwww!" sort of stuff. That is what these tutorials are for -- to help you LEARN these skills.

Learning to draw takes nothing more, nothing less, than a combination of the following:

  • Careful observation.
  • Perseverance.
  • Courage.

None of these comes "naturally"; all are skills that we can develop. So begin your journey, and may your learning curve be smooth!

Always me,

Janee

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