I have had a few friends ask me how to change the shirt color or a persons eyes in pictures using Photoshop. This is something I do all the time! If I find a image on stock.xchng (free stock photo site) and I don't like the shirt color someone is wearing I simply modify it in Photoshop to my liking.

Today I am going to use an example of a Tree frog to adjust its hue and saturation. The reason I wanted to use a tree frog is because it has very bright vibrant colors but you can use this tutorial on any image!

The first thing we are going to do is create a new Photoshop file by going to File-->new and select your size and background color. For my image I am using a white background 510 wide by 373 high. Now that we have a blank Photoshop file lets create a new layer. Open up your layers panel (F7 or go to Window-->Layers) and create a new layer. I called my layer Tree Frog. Now paste in your image that you wish to change.

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While working out the other day I caught the end of the greatest gadgets of 2007. One of the items on there was a charging pad called WildCharger. The WildCharger is a small thin pad that lies flat that allows up to five devices to be set on it to charge. Being a techie this grabbed my attention! Most people these days (at least in my house with both my husband and I being Techies!) have several things that need to be charged. I am constantly finding myself with a dead cell phone battery or an iPod that needs to be charged etc.

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I was cruising Adobe labs this morning just checking out the new things that have been added. While looking I came across something called Mapanno. Mapanno uses DHTML to create visual tags that overlay an image. Mapanno uses images from flicker or 23. As I was looking through a few of the examples I came across the online day planner. I am a pretty organized person so my first thought was hmmm I wonder how easy this is to actually use. I registered and in about five minutes I had a day planner created with a few markers. Mapanno is free and very easy to use. Check out Mapanno's web site there are several different examples on how to use Mapanno. You can view my day planner example here