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On last night's show I talked about how to turn a photo into a pencil sketch, giving you an option for pictures with sub-optimal lighting, plus it's a great way to create an image that's something special and rather unique. Hope you enjoy the tutorial!

I'm off next week to Ann Arbor, MI and Washington DC for eight days. Be sure to check my road schedule and travel blog in the meantime!

On last night's show I talked about my new Photoshop Elements tutorial series called Retouching People, with the very first installment illustrating how to knock off 5 pounds the digital way. Since that was really short and sweet, I also posted Part 2: Banishing Bags and Blemishes. Stay tuned for more!

Until next week, may the creative force be with you :)

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On last night's show I talked about how to create duotones in Photoshop Elements. The next time you've got a sub-par image or want to evoke a totally different mood, give this technique a spin. Hope you enjoy the tutorial!

Widget of the Week goes to Metal History. Woo hoo!

Those of you in New York City, come see me next week at the MacLive Conference. Until the week *after* next, may the creative force be with you :)

On last night's show I talked about how using the Cookie Cutter tool and Custom Shapes in Elements can produce fun photo frames. The default shapes aren't too exciting, but the 100s of extras just waiting to be loaded into Elements are really neat. Hope you enjoy the tutorial!

Widget of the Week goes to TheDailyGrind.

Until next week, may the creative force be with you :)

On last night's show I talked about how to apply a super fast spotlight to a portrait, highlighting the subject of your image. It literally takes two steps! As a bonus, I also posted my top 11 (no 17!) favorite Photoshop and Elements keyboard shortcuts. Plus I'll show you a way of making the CS apps build a web page of *all* the keyboard shortcuts they contain. Hope you enjoy the tutorials!

Widget of the Week goes to The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition! I am *so* loving this widget.

Until next week, may the force be with you :)

On last night's show I talked about how to create a quick Polaroid effect in either Photoshop or Elements. It's a super fast little technique that lends itself to captioning. I also posted the Top 6 Things I Learned While Working on the iPhoto 6 Missing Manual. Hope you enjoy the tutorials!

Widget of the Week goes to MacGyverisms. Thank you Nanther for this tip!

Until next week, may the force be with you :)

This week on Your Mac Life, sponsored by Griffin Technology, Digital Forest, RadTech and Circus Ponies - "Your Mac Life - Delayed!"

Good news and bad news about this coming Wednesday's show.

The Bad News is that there won't be one. :(

The Good News is that we are simply moving it ahead 24 hrs to the same time on Thursday evening!

Shawn and Lesa King are off on their "Biker's Honeymoon" and, due to unavoidable delays (involving thunder, lightning, rain, hail and 40mph wind gusts!), they won't be back in the studio in time for Wednesday's show.

We hope this doesn't inconvenience our listeners too much and hope you can free up time to join us live on Thursday evening.

If you have a high speed Net connection, you can access the live video stream during the Your Mac Life broadcast by clicking on this URL:
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You can listen in to the plain old audio feed at:
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You can also join one of the two Chat Rooms that run during the live show - on the World Without Borders site or on the dedicated IRC Server at irc.netmug.org in the #yourmaclife Channel.