Category: Tech Tuesday
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Fabric Printing Review: realfabric.com
Our review of realfabric.com may be our final fabric printing review before the Pixeladies retire, so we’re especially glad we found this company. After myfabricdesigns.com went out of business, we were really sad. It used reactive dyes, which we loved. Why? Because you get a rich, deep black. And for us, it’s all about the…
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How to Correct Color in Photos using a Color Card
Here’s a short video to show you how to correct the color on your digital photos using a color card. Your images will thank you!
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Our New Website And Some DIY Tips
We’re publishing our Tech Tuesday post early because it’s been a while since we posted, and we updated our website. Take a look!
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The Case For A Writing Tablet
Kris takes a moment today to tell you why she loves her writing tablet – and not just for Photoshop Elements.
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Create Your Own Backgrounds in Photoshop Elements
Today we want to show you the ready-made backgrounds in Photoshop Elements also explain how easy it is to create your own!
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Straighten Images In PSE With The Perspective Crop Tool
Today we are focusing on that little gem in Photoshop Elements, the Perspective Crop tool. You’ll soon wonder how you ever lived without it!
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Pixelady vs. Pixelady: Find a Layer
As we mentioned last week, there are many ways to perform the same task in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. And, as we like to say, the best way is the one you remember. Kris likes to name each of her layers so she can find the layer easily. She can just look at the layer…
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More Than One Way To Accomplish Tasks In Photoshop
Here’s our collection of blog posts up to now on how there are different ways to do stuff in Photoshop Elements.
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Create Instagram Puzzle Feed with Photoshop (Part 3)
Here’s Part 3 of our tutorial on creating an Instagram puzzle feed. Today we show you how to actually post your puzzle feed to Instagram.
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Create Instagram Puzzle Feed With Photoshop (Part 2)
Today we’ll show you how to create “slices” for your Instagram feed. Purchase a program that unlocks the required secret PSE tool.
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Create Instagram Puzzle Feed With Photoshop (Part 1)
We’re starting a three-part post on how to create a nifty puzzle feed for your Instagram posts. It’s pretty slick!
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Finding and Installing Fonts in Photoshop Elements
Pixeladies love fonts, especially Deb’s recently discovered realistic handwriting font. Here’s how to find and install them.
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Adding Pattern Files to Photoshop Elements
Here’s a Tech Tuesday post about the ease of downloading pattern files to use in Photoshop Elements. It’s easy!
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How To Obscure Faces in Photoshop Elements
We’re taking a little break from sewing to show you how to obscure faces in this Tech Tuesday post from Kris.
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Fabric And Steamers For Sale
Fabric and steamers for sale! Yes, we are selling our prepared-for-print fabric on bolts our vertical and stovetop steamers.
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We Track Our Artwork on the GYST Cloud – Should You?
We’ve been tracking on our artwork with Gyst for years, and now we’re moving it to the cloud. Read on to see, if you should, too.
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Adding Brushes to Photoshop Elements
Today we’ll show you how to add some new brushes to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, including a cool Keith Haring set of brushes.
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Use the Difference Blend Mode to Match Things Up
Today the Pixeladies will show you how you can use the difference blend mode in Photoshop to match up different images. Ah, perfection!
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What To Look For In Fabric-Printing Companies
There are more and more fabric-printing companies out there to turn your digital designs into fabrics of many types. From cotton duck to silk organza, the sky is now the limit. We had written about fabric-printing companies for the SAQA Journal a few years back. Recently they asked us to revisit the topic again. The…
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Kick Your Digital Designing Up A Notch . . . Or Two!
Have you played with your photos in various phone or tablet apps? Have you created some drawings or abstract paintings on your phone or tablet? BUT, do you think there is more you could do with the piece? Do we have a class for you. Our Digital Designing class is starting soon. Using four principles…
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Artificial Intelligence, It Turns Out, Has Racial Bias, Too
We are teachers and users of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. So we appreciate the advancements in artificial intelligence and how it has improved our digital editing and organizing capabilities. We’ve written about Photoshop Elements’ artificial intelligence here and facial recognition here. It’s time for us to reevaluate implicit bias in the tools we use to…
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Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Worth Memorizing!
Once you start working with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you soon realize that learning some keyboard shortcuts can really reduce your work time. The problem is there are so many shortcuts, that you don’t know where to start! Well, we have our favorites, so why don’t you start there? Where Can I Find Shortcuts? In…
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Create Text On A Path In Photoshop Elements
We thought we’d give you a little gift this week. It’s a lesson from our online digital design class about putting text on a path. You can see how we teach online. In our class, you receive a video lesson and a handout with each topic along with access to a classroom website to post…
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Go On A Magic Carpet Ride With Photoshop Blend Modes
Apologies to John Kay and Steppenwolf, but get ready to go on a magic carpet ride once you enter the world of blend modes. In the real world, if you have two sheets of paper stacked on top of each other, you usually see just the top layer. If the paper is thin, you might see…
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Windows Ink, Writing Tablets & Photoshop Elements
Curses, Windows Ink! Every time we teach one of our classes, we inevitably have a student who, when working with a writing tablet, is unable to perform some of the actions in Photoshop Elements. (Many thanks to Laurel K. for the reminder!). We can often trace the issue back to Windows Ink, but since the…
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Rainbows, Books on Color, and Creating Color in Photoshop Elements
Are you interested in creating color? This is Kris with a confession. I registered for the Color Seminar offered by Studio Art Quilt Associates. It’s free for members. Let’s just say I am a big slacker because I haven’t created anything for class. But, the one thing this seminar has done for me so far…
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The Usefulness of Abstracted Image in Photoshop Elements
One of the things we teach in our Photoshop Elements Essentials classes is how to transform a photograph into a cartoon, or abstracted image that you can use as a pattern for creating a quilt or other collage. When you create a quilt pattern, separating the colors into shades of dark, medium, and light helps…
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Bernie Memes, Brendan Smialowski, And Copyright Laws
Well, Senator Bernie Sanders is making the rounds again. This time it’s in memes galore with his amazing handmade mittens at President Biden’s inauguration. So, what does Bernie Sanders have to do with Brendan Smialowski, and who is Brendan Smialowski anyway? Mr. Smialowski is the photographer who took the now iconic photo of Bernie Sanders at…
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Why Image Resolution Is So Important
Last week we alluded to the importance of image resolution for your creative output. You can read that post here. Today we want to show you how the use of different image resolutions creates effective results in Photoshop Elements. (The image above was created using the crosshatch filter on low-resolution image.) General Considerations Our students…
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More Fun With Filters In Photoshop Elements
When you’re down and troubledAnd you need some love and careAnd nothing, nothing is going right… Carole King Since you can’t visit your friends, why don’t you open a photo in Photoshop Elements and just play with the filters. (Sorry Carole King and James Taylor.) But don’t be satisfied with using just one filter, try…