You can quickly add a Photoshop button in Google Picasa that will automatically open the current picture inside Photoshop for advanced editing. That should save some of your time.

When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option consider. However, software itself a quite tough nut crack — and definitely extremely hard master. For instance, concepts are not always intuitive

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Tutorial Description: Flame effect tutorials abound on the internet, but most of them are quite fiddly and take forever. You can, however, break the mould with this simple tutorial that takes under 10 minutes to complete and can be applied to anything. And hey... the results look pretty darned realistic too! ;)