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Photoshop Elements Lessons for the Less Technical

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When I am not busy making art I am busy making art with Middle School kids! (gasp) I am proud to teach Art and Technology to kids and NOW grown-ups too!

Because it seemed so simple to teach digital arts to 11-14 year olds, I thought, "It can't be much harder to teach adults, right?" So at the Washington State Arts Educators Conference in 2005 I did exactly that. The teachers there were so thrilled to have easy to understand tutorials I just knew I had to share them with other grown-ups. So the Digital Diva Newsletter was created in 2006 to share these easy to follow tutorials.

I want you to have fun with these tutorials. As students of all ages use them, I discover new questions and new ways to improve the steps and images. So if you have a comment or suggestion please feel free to email and share your thoughts!

Lessons 

for Photoshop Elements

These lessons have been tested with middle school students and adults.
Mandalas
Mandalas: Radial Design
Learn the use of Polygon tool, copy and paste, merging layers, rotating layers and more.
Wahol Style
Warhol: Filters
Learn the use of copy and paste, merging layers, and using filters to color and distort.

Links 

Adobe Photoshop Elements
Image editing tools for digital imaging acquired from cameras and scanners, Over 90 effect filters included. Download demo, user forums, and tutorials. [Macintosh/Windows]
Jay Arraich's Photoshop Elements Tips
Clear, simple, well-illustrated instruction for beginning Photoshop Elements users.
Adobe Photoshop Elements Review
An indepth review by an expert user Tom Arah.
Booster Elements
Three essential plugins: Curves, Density Masking, and Color Effects, for Adobe Photoshop Elements or Jasc PaintShop7. For Windows and PowerMac.
Photoshop Elements
Mailing list to become skilled at the ins and outs of this image-editing program with messages, files, and photos.
Photoshop Elements Photo Fix Tutorials
Techniques for improving photos, includes tutorials for reducing red eye, repairing damaged photos, improving color, balance and tone, and removing dust and scratches retouching.
Elements Basics
In-depth overview of the programs characteristics and its main features, with a few helpful tips.

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I have a not so secret passion for paper. I haunt the office supply stores to see the orderly stacks of every kind of basic business paper. But this is never enough, gift wrap, tissue, books, maps, ticket stubs and packaging. It always finds its way into my home.

It started with magazines, the glossy images begged me to rip them apart. Once I started ripping I couldn't stop. I began to see myself as painting with the paper. The texture and dimensions are as important as the colors. More often than not, I will tear the paper with my finger rather than use any one of the hundreds of pairs of scissors that clutter my desk.

Somewhere along the way, fabric intervened. The paper is still a passion, but now the fabric has begun to pile up as well. I don't usually think of myself as a pack rat but when I look at my stashes, I wonder. I imagine it came from my mother, who had a saying, "She who dies with the most fabric win." I'm not sure what the prize is, but I am in the running.

Be it paper or fabric, on glass or in books, my work is always about my journey through life. Early pieces show a struggle with sexuality, relationships and matters of the body and heart. When asked to describe the inner workings of these pieces I would say, "My collage and mixed media work is a perspective of the female form, by a female. By reducing existing images to an elemental point, the resultant collages are sensual and colorful constructs that suggest redefinition of the cultural views of women. My work continues to be an exploration of my own femininity and my place in the world."

Later my work reflected my spiritual questions and searching. As I become more settled into my adulthood, my work turns to understanding the more subtle aspects of personality and choices in life.

I know that my work will change and grow on this journey of mine, but I believe a style of strong lines and bold colors will weave its way though all of the pieces.

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