With so many versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements available now, compatibility can sometimes be an issue. For example, older versions of PSE need to have .metadata files for styles in order for styles to load in the program properly. So, here’s a quick tip on how to create a metadata file for a style […]
With an influx of newcomers and returning users, we’ve had several questions about gallery uploads, questions about the how-tos for both our forum and gallery software, as well as questions about challenge rules and what’s allowed or not allowed. We have many FAQs posted for our forum and for our gallery, but it’s always nice […]
As scrappers, we all have cameras – whether you use the built-in camera on your phone, a high-end fancy schmancy camera, or something in between. Even if you just use the built-in camera on your phone, there are settings that you may or may not be able adjust to make your photos come out even […]
There are several fun filters in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements that you can apply to your photos quickly and easily! One of my favorites is the Poster Edges filter! Download the PDF You can find it in Photoshop by going to Filter > Filter Gallery: Then expand the little arrow next to the word […]
Before I take off for the day to celebrate New Year’s with the family, I wanted to show you one of my new favorite features in Photoshop – the “Lock transparent pixels” button. I love the dodge/burn tool and use it quite a lot, but sometimes I want a softer look to what I’m working […]
Jen has shared hints before about customizing the size of our font previews, which made me wonder if any of you know how you can customize your layers panel? Lol, today’s techie tip is a quick one, but one that will save your eyes a LOT of strain, and help you avoid more wrinkles from […]
Let’s talk eyesight. Adobe must think that we all have 20/20 vision, or magnifying binoculars installed into our eye sockets, because some of their menu items are written in the smallest, most unreadable text possible 😛 Thankfully, they have also built in a couple of little menu items (if you can read them!) to help […]
With the update of our forum and gallery software, I wanted to spotlight one of my FAVORITE features we now have… Embed Media. I can’t tell you how much easier this has made life for us on the forum! You can insert images from the gallery into a forum post without ever leaving your post, […]
Here’s another fabulous tutorial from Jasmin-Olya Designs on how to use her CD/DVD cover templates! You can find all of them here Today I want to talk about DVD and CD covers. I often get questions about how I print them and what material I use. So I decided to answer them and hope it […]
I sat down this past weekend with the Scraplift challenge on our mojo forum and thought it would be a good opportunity for a beginner’s tutorial 🙂 It’s pretty easy and in the end, you have a basic template that you can save and use later if you want to! Download the PDF The challenge […]