Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Tutorials
Watch and learn the basics of Photoshop, using either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. These tutorials are specifically designed to show you how to use Photoshop to enhance your presentation as well as give you ideas how you can use images in your presentation. New to Photoshop?  No worries, we will take you step by step on how to do what we are demonstrating. In most cases you can download the source files as well as study guides.

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basic_extraction_thumbnail Basic Extraction | Getting Rid of the Background
In this session you will learn how to make a solid background transparent so your image is the focus in your presentation.
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Painting on the Gloves
Learn the basics of changing the color of a shirt or in this case adding medical gloves to hands. This technique has many applications.

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Adding Images to Text
Take an image and add to text so you can have the best of both worlds. Text that is an image...how cool is that?

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Create Your Own People Clip Art
Learn how to extract your background from a person to use as clip art in your presentation. Click here to see how to do this within PowerPoint 2010 as well.

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Adding a Cut Out Look to Your Clip Art
It's retro, but it is a unique look for people clip art and it can help hide the imperfections of your extractions as well. Check out the "Bouncing People" tutorial in PowerPoint. 

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Branding Your PowerPoint
See how you can brand your PowerPoint presentation to your organization. In this session we will show you how to prep your logos in Photoshop Elements and then create your background in PowerPoint.

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motion Adding Motion to a Parked Vehicle
In this lesson you will learn how add motion to a parked vehicle. We will take take a photo of a parked firetrucks in front of a fire station and give it action using the motion blur in Photoshop. Then we will add headlights to the vehicle as well to polish it off.

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Creating Your Own Photoshop Template with Grids
See how you can brand your presentation and create your template using Photoshop or Elements. You will also learn how to create grids in this session as well as make custom slides to use for your presentation as well as a title slide.

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Changing the Color of Your Template (Follow up to Previous Tutorial)
You made your Photoshop template now learn a few ways to easily change the color of the template in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

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Photoshop | Making a Simple 2D Book for PowerPoint
Grab a copy of a text book cover and use the pre-made Photoshop Template (absolutley free from this site) and make a 2D looking book that looks like a photo, complete with shadows and highlights.

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Photoshop | Make Your Own Dummies Book Mock Up
In this session you will learn how to make your own mock up of the popular style dummies book from scratch. You will also get all of the assets for the tutorial as well.

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