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1. Add a Grungy Edge to a Photo

Today’s inspiration will be fun, I think. :) I had a great time making it, anyway. After you complete this tutorial, you’ll be able to give any photo a cool grungy border that bleeds into the background , like this one:

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2. Create a Dreamy/Handtinted Look on a Photo

Today you’ll add a cool dream-i-fied/handtinted look to a photo, like this:   Cool, huh? But wait, here was my original, totally unedited except scaling and saving for web:   And I need to mention that I adapted these instructions from a...

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3. Making Eyes Pop

We’re going to talk about photos today. And I’ll share a little eye-popping secret. :) I received portions of this information from a tutorial over at NOBS photo. Thanks to them. :) Making Eyes Pop. *clearing throat* The eyes are the windows...

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4. Adventures in Black and White (and Sepia, too!)

This tutorial is useful, functional, foolproof, and easy. How many things in life can you say THAT about, huh? We are going to have an adventure in Black and White, as well as in Sepia. And basically this means you’ll learn a great method for...

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5. Creating a Circle Photo Collage with 4 sections

This tutorial will show you how to create this cool 4-square circular photo block.

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6. Bringing Color Back to a Black and White Photo

This tutorial shows how to convert a photo to black-and-white, then use the eraser tool to reveal portions of the color photo layer underneath, like this:

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7. Highlight a Photo's Focal Point with a Colored Overlay

This tutorial will be focusing on ways to highlight focal points in your photos. This technique can be used in BOTH digi and paper pages! DISCLAIMER: Sometimes my imagination gets away with me. Now that I’ve got it all down, this tutorial...

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8. Allowing Patterned Paper to Show Through a Photo

If you would like to complete this EXACT layout, you’ll need:  Esther Paper pack by Anna Aspnes Sanded Overlay by Katie Pertiet Marcelle font (free from dafont.com) If you don’t have this paper pack, choose a patterned paper for your page...

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9. Soft Focus

This is a pretty simple photo editing technique that will give a photo a nice soft focus. Here is the image we’ll end up with:  

Monday, 23 June 2008 | 6470 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

10. Crop a Photo at an Angle

You can use your Crop tool to add interest and movement to a photo. The technique itself is very short, but it can give you great results, like this:

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