By Don Barnes
There are several reasons for creating a digital mat or frame for your image.  Maybe you just want to enhance your image for online viewing.  Perhaps you don’t have the tools and materials to make a traditional mat for your image.  Possibly you can’t find the right color or texture of mat to compliment your image.  For all these reasons digital matting and framing may be the answer to your needs. [Read More...]

By Don Barnes
Creating a vignette to highlight the subject of your photograph is an excellent way to enhance your images and is extremely easy to do in Photoshop CS6.  Here are Step by Step directions to make your images more powerful with vignettes. (While not exactly the same, these instructions will also help you create a vignette in Photoshop Elements as well.)

Step One
Open your image in Photoshop like usual... [Read More...]