Author: Deb Cashatt
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Creating Custom Gradients with Adobe Color
Creating color gradients using Adobe Color is a lot of fun. Last week I (Deb) showed you how to create color swatches from a photograph using Adobe Color. You can read that post here. Today I’ll show you how I used the same photo to create a color gradient. Why Color Gradients? A color gradient…
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Lift Your Mood With Adobe Color
Has staying at home got you feeling kind of blue? Click over to Adobe Color for a change of scenery. Adobe Color is a website that lets you play with color.
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Digital Stencils the Photoshop Elements Way
This is Deb with a post on what we like to call “digital stencils.” In an earlier post, we showed you how to use the Cookie Cutter tool in Photoshop Elements to “cut” your photos into shapes. But you can also create your own stencils by creating “masks.” You can use many tools to create…
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2020 SAQA Benefit Auction: Deb’s Dream Collection
See Deb’s Dream Collection of SAQA Benefit Auction Quilts.
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Tablet Settings in Photoshop Elements
Did you know that you can control the characteristics of your brush if you use a drawing tablet with Photoshop Elements (PSE)? Here in the Pixeladies studio, we use a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse.
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Pixelady vs. Pixelady: Cropping
We’re back with another episode of Pixelady vs. Pixelady. This one is about two ways to crop images.
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Shirley isn’t the Only Color
Pixeladies discover “Shirley” cards and uncover their own invisible racism.
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Quilt Stories with Lisa Walton
Woohoo! Another 15 minutes of fame. Well, really 24 minutes and 54 seconds. Our friend and colleague, Lisa Walton, has created a series of videos called Quilt Stories where she chats with quilters and artists about one of their quilts. Lisa’s talks include traditional quilters and art quilters from all over the world. Deb has…
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File-Name-Limitations-Length, Or Check Your File Names
This is Deb with a short but very instructive Tech Tuesday Post. Recently my dear husband (DH for short–even though he’s not short) was helping a friend transfer her photographs to a new computer. Things were not going as planned in this project. Some files weren’t being copied to the new computer. After muttering some…
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Finding Duplicate Files
We just offered our class on Photoshop Elements Organizer, and many of our students wanted to know how we deal with duplicate photos. Yes, once you get started organizing, you might find you have the same photo in multiple places on your computer. We wrote about this issue in 2017 (you can read those blog…
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Design a Website, Really?
We’ve written about collaborating on our art, but did you know that Pixeladies is actually a business partnership, too? In the business part, we don’t collaborate as much as divvy up the jobs. Fortunately we have, as our dear friend Weslee calls it, complementary skill sets. Kris and I like to say Kris is the…
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Copy and Paste Multiple Layers at Once with Copy Merged
By now you probably know that we teach Photoshop Elements. We really like to teach, for all sorts of reasons, I especially like it when we receive questions that I have to investigate or double check the answer I was initially going to write. In the process of answering a question from student Barb S.,…
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Make A Meme Using Photoshop Elements’ Guided Edits
meme noun \ˈmēm\1: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture2: an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media Merriam Webster Dictionary There have been some crazy funny memes floating around the Internet…
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Deb’s Love Of Art And Basketball Explained
This is Deb here to answer the burning question, “What does a visit to your local museum, in my case the Crocker Art Museum, have to do with basketball?” I’ll drive or even fly for hours to see a museum exhibition, but it’s hard for me to take three hours out of my day and…
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Use PS Cookie Cutter Tool for Cool Valentine’s Cards
Happy almost Valentine’s Day. If you don’t want to pay an exorbitant price for a Valentine’s Day card, Deb’s back to show you how to make very personal greeting cards using the cookie cutter tool in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Gather, Cut and Paste First find a bunch of photographs with you and your…
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Neat Trick To Fade One Image Into Another
It’s Deb, back with a slick way to put two images together with a fade effect. I have a photo of Dave and me in front of the Bell Tower, a historical monument in Placerville, California. Then I found a wonderful map of Placerville* from 1888 which actually shows the Bell Tower. I want to…
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Stamp Visible: A Useful Keyboard Shortcut In Photoshop
This is Deb with one of my all-time favorite Photoshop shortcuts: Stamp Visible. We’ve written many posts on the advantages of using layers in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, but sometimes we need to combine some or all of the layers together to perform a certain task. And Stamp Visible can help us do this. Let’s…
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Create Simple Pattern Repeats With Photoshop Shapes
This is Deb with another Tech Tuesday blog . . . just in time for those of you who still have holiday notes to write. You probably know about the custom shape tools in Photoshop Elements (PSE). And if you read our previous post on shapes, you know how to add shapes to the ones that…
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There Is Such A Thing As Pixidoku – Help Spread The Word!
This is Deb with a special blog post about Pixidoku. So what’s Pixidoku all about, and why do we want to talk about it? Well first off, like the “Pixe” in Pixeladies, the “Pixi” in Pixidoku doesn’t refer to pixies. Second, we love Sudoku. Third, Heather, one of the co-creators, is the daughter of my…
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Add Custom Shapes to Photoshop Elements
This is Deb with another Tech Tuesday blog post just in time for the holidays. Today it’s all about custom shapes. There are a lot of things we like about Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, but their selection of custom shapes is not one. Fortunately there are a lot of clever, artistic, and generous people out…
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Pixelady Vs. Pixelady: Fill Layer With Pattern
In this installment of Pixelady vs. Pixelady, we are going to show you how to fill a layer (or selection) with a pattern. Deb’s Way Yes, this is one of those old-dog ways. In fact, it was the only way to fill a layer (or selection) with a pattern when Deb started with Photoshop. You…
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Different Ways To Copy And Paste Selections
We’re going to go over some different ways to copy and paste in our first installment of Pixelady vs. Pixelady. Kris’s Way One way to copy and paste a part of an image in Photoshop Elements (it works for regular Photoshop, too) is to make a selection. Use the Rectangular Marquee tool to create a…
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Pixelady vs. Pixelady: Different Ways To Do The Same Thing in Photoshop
Greetings everyone. It’s Deb here with a little teaser for our upcoming, intermittent series of blog posts called Pixelady vs. Pixelady. Just because we work together doesn’t mean we always do things the same way. Photoshop is a great case in point because there are so many ways to accomplish the same task. Of course,…
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Coils, Spirals, And The Twirl Filter In Photoshop
A couple of months ago, Kris blogged about some of her favorite Photoshop filters that were not listed in the Filter Gallery. I’m back to share another one: The Twirl Filter. This filter might not be as exciting to some of you, but I’m a twirl kind of gal. Yes, I loved twirling skirts when…
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Deb’s 2019 SAQA Dream Collection
This is Deb, back with my SAQA Benefit Auction post. Kris picked eight grid-inspired pieces last week. I decided to try something a little different. I have several auction pieces I’ve purchased over the years, and there’s no rhyme or reason to them. What if this year I picked eight pieces that I could add…
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“Everything”: The Windows Search Tool That Really Works
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! “Everything” is a tip is too good to wait for Tech Tuesday, so here is Deb with a special Friday edition of Tech Tuesday. Are you as frustrated with using the Windows search function as I am? You know there’s a file somewhere in your computer, but $%&$#-ing Windows…
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Peruse, Palette, Ponder: Creating An Artist’s Palette
This is Deb, pondering a lot lately. I sometimes start my day scanning social media, not a bad thing, especially when it revolves around one’s own artistic palette. My recent perusing evolved into a theme. First I opened my Adobe Create magazine and read an article about illustrator Sarah Hasenmaile. Inspiration Susan limits herself to…
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Printing on Fabric Update: Spoonflower
Black 5 years ago we wrote a post about fabric printing services. Here’s an excerpt: Let’s face it, we would send our file in a handwritten letter to the company and have it delivered by Pony Express if they could print a decent black. Black makes all other colors pop, so if the company doesn’t…
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Deb Makes A “Selfie” for Cloth in Common
It has been a hectic summer! Since Kris is working part-time at another job, I thought I might need another activity to keep me busy. Yeah, right. After hemming and hawing, I decided to join Cloth in Common, an international group of twelve talented fiber artists organized by Karol Kusmaul from Florida. Cloth in Common Every…
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Graduation, Procrastination, And Quilting Indiana Jones
2010 It’s Deb, back again with a confession. Nine years ago I took some photographs of my favorite Indiana Jones in his suburban backyard. I just loved his style and attitude. As soon as I saw the image in the lower right, I knew it had to become a quilt. Of course I had to…