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Your Digital Clay Doctor is IN! 

Our first case is a rescue effort - a dark, muddy exposure has made this faux stone bracelet it's victim..

So how are we going to go from this to the final sparkling image? 

 

 

 

Open your Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and play along!

NOTE: I've used keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+L, which means hold down the Ctrl key and press the "L" key at the same time.

Click on a picture to make it larger and use the right and left arrows to scroll through the project.

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right click on this pic and save to your desktop if you want to play along with your software

FOR REGULAR PHOTOSHOP USERS: To add a background-

Once you have used the lasso tool to select the background, use Ctrl+J to "jump" the background to it's own layer.  Remember that you can hold down the shift key to add to your selection area.

At the bottom of the layer palette is a cursive "f". Click on it and select Pattern Overlay.

Now you can select any pattern you wish for the background.  You can use the Opacity tool (just above the preview of the texture) to lower opacity of the texture layer. Don't forget to flatten the layers when you are done and save the file!

Don