HowTos Index
How To How to Cut a Picture into a Shape with Paint Shop Pro
Here's a quick and easy way to cut a picture into a shape using the preset shapes in Paint Shop Pro X2.
How To Create a Custom Brush in Photoshop
Learn how to define a custom brush in Photoshop (any version) and get tips for using and working with custom brushes.
How To Email Optimized Pictures From Windows Vista
When sending pictures by email, it's important to reduce the size of your pictures so they transfer faster and are more viewable on the recipient's screen. Windows Vista has an automated function that will resize, optimize, and email a group of pictures without altering your originals.
How To Email Optimized Pictures From Windows XP
When sending pictures by email, it's important to reduce the size of your pictures so they transfer faster and are more viewable on the recipient's screen. Windows XP has an automated function that will resize, optimize, and email a group of pictures without altering your originals.
How To Add Custom Patterns and Save Them as a Set in Photoshop 6 and Up
How to add your own patterns and save custom pattern sets and other presets using the Preset Manager in Photoshop 6 and higher.
How To Turn Color Clip Art into Line Art with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
Have you ever wanted to take a color illustration and only print the black lines in it? This is a technique that works great for turning color clip art into coloring pages for kids, or for saving your color ink when you need to print something.
How To Fix Red Eye with Picasa
Picasa is a popular free digital photo organizer. It includes a tool for red eye removal that helps you quickly remove the glowing red pupils from your snapshot photos.
How To Email Photos with XnView
When sending pictures by email, it's important to reduce the size of your pictures so they transfer faster and are more viewable on the recipient's screen. The free image viewer XnView has an automated function that will resize, optimize, and email a group of pictures without altering your originals.
How To Compare Multiple Images with XnView
The free image viewer XnView is a great tool for reviewing and culling photos from your digital camera. It offers a nice full screen view, red eye correction, slide shows, and a utility for comparing up to 4 photos side-by-side. This tutorial will show you how to use the compare feature. This is useful when you have several similar pictures and you're deciding which versions to keep and which to cull.
How To Capture a Screen Shot with the Snipping Tool in Windows Vista
Before Windows Vista, if you wanted a screen shot you had to use the less than intuitive method of pressing the print screen key and pasting the screen shot into a graphics program to add markup and save it. With Windows Vista, Microsoft has included a utility called the Snipping Tool to make capturing screen shots easier.
How To Capture a Screen Shot of your Desktop or the Active Window in Windows
Learn how to capture a screen shot of your desktop or an active window to an image in Windows without installing additional software.
How To View an Index Sheet of Pictures with Mac OS X
Many people don't realize there is a built in feature for quickly viewing pictures in Mac OS X. You don't need to open iPhoto or install any third party software to see a thumbnail index or a quick slide show of your pictures.
How To Frame a Photo Like a Polaroid
Download a ready-to-use Polaroid frame template for quickly adding a Polaroid frame to any photo without having to create the Polaroid frame from scratch. You should be able to use the Polaroid frame template in any photo-editing software with layers capability and support for PSD or PNG file types.
How To Make Text Stand Out on any Background in Photoshop Elements
You can make text stand out on a photo better by placing a solid color behind it that subtly fades into the background. This is easy to do in Photoshop using the outer glow layer style effect, but since Photoshop Elements does not give you as much control over layer effects, it is something you will have to do manually.
How To Capture a Screen Shot with XnView
There are many times when it is helpful to have an image of something displayed on your computer screen. This is often called taking a screen shot. XnView is a free image viewer that's handy for a lot of things--including capturing screen shots.
How To Generate a List of Files with XnView
A simple how to on generating a list of files using the free image viewer XnView.
How To Capture a Screen Shot with Mac OS X
The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot (an image of your computer desktop or an active window). Here's a summary of all the shortcuts you can use to capture your screen using Mac OS X.
How To Generate a List of Files With ACDSee
A simple how to on generating a list of files using the ACDSee image viewer.
How To Enhance a Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect in Paint.NET
Learn how to enhance a portrait with a soft focus effect in Paint.NET. This technique is great for creating glamour portraits. It's also good for reducing JPEG artifacts. It mimics a soft focus or diffusion lens filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines and wrinkles, and intensifying the colors.
How To Enhance A Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect in Photoshop
This technique mimics a soft focus or diffusion lens filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines and wrinkles, and intensifying the colors. It's great for glamour portraits and also works well for reducing JPEG artifacts.
How To Enhance A Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect - Paint Shop Pro Method 2
This technique mimics a soft focus or diffusion lens filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines and wrinkles, and intensifying the colors. It's great for glamour portraits and also works well for reducing JPEG artifacts.
How To Enhance A Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect - Paint Shop Pro Method 1
This simple technique produces a warm glow, softening details and diminishing noise and artifacts similar to a soft focus or diffusion lens filter. It works especially well on portraits for a glamour effect, but don't hesitate to try it on other types of images.
How To Enhance A Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect - Elements Method 2
This technique mimics a soft focus or diffusion lens filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines and wrinkles, and intensifying the colors. It's great for portraits and also works well for reducing JPEG artifacts.
How To Enhance A Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect - Photo-Paint Method 2
This technique mimics a soft focus or diffusion lens filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines and wrinkles, and intensifying the colors. It's great for portraits and also works well for reducing JPEG artifacts.
How To Enhance A Portrait with a Soft Focus "Glamour" Effect - Photo-Paint Method 1
This simple technique produces a warm glow, softening details and diminishing noise and artifacts similar to a soft focus or diffusion lens filter. It works especially well on portraits, but don't hesitate to try it on other types of images.