Advanced Editing

Photoshop Elements vs. Photoshop CS

Is Photoshop CS worth the $500 or so more than it’s little brother Photoshop Elements? Here’s information to help you decide.

Adjusting shadows and highlights in digital photos

When it’s beyond your digital camera’s capacity to capture the full tonal range in a scene, the Shadows/Highlight feature found in many photo editing programs can come to the rescue.

Selectively change a color in a photo

Discover the Selective Color Correction tool and how to correct a primary color in a digital photo without changing others.

Unsharp Mask

How to use the Unsharp Mask filter to effectively sharpening images taken with a digital camera.

Resizing images for the web

Learn how to reduce the size of a digital image so it is more suitable for viewing online and sending via email.

Layers: Harnessing their power

Layers allow you to create powerfully enhanced digital photos and sophisticated graphics. This tutorial gives you the basics of understanding and using Layers when editing an image.

If you’ve ever worn a mask, you’ll understand the basic concept of Layer masks: everything is visible except what’s behind the mask. This technique is used to combine multiple images into a single photo as well as make color, tonal and other corrections.