does anyone know of a tutorial that helps me to create a vintage, antique color or urban acid-grunge? Ive googles it many times and come up with nothing. Thanx!

snowfall in the elements tutorial links section are links to alot of tutorial sites..they all have alot of grunge tutorials...just type in grunge in the search box. The pixel2life site is one of the best.

Here is a tutorial from one of us and it is quite detailed viewtopic.php?f=18&t=113 hope this is what your after. If not, it may just give you a good start.

Here is a tutorial that I got from the mpix forum. It is pretty cool esp. for this time of year..

http://community.mpix.com/forums/p/5610 ... spx#499803

Enjoy!!

Also, John Wright, creator of PhotoBlast Actions, has all these actions for PSE. And they work very well... http://www.ezactions.com/ I have most of them and use them quite frequently.

Denise, I just got off the phone with John (from ezactions) & i asked him to explain to me how to customize his actions. He said to run the action then select all > copy & paste > on top of original. Im going to try that but since you use it all the time do you have any other suggestions or secrets you can tell me about. Maybe mixing a B&W with a color photo or anything else that can help to jazz up a picture. I just want to learn other ways to use these aside from running straight through. He did tell me with elements other than the pro actions (even then) theres really not alot of ways to customize it , only with photoshop. So any suggestions would be so appreciated. Thank you!

I create different layers of the same photo using different actions. change the blend modes, opacity, etc. Perform the actions on converted BWs. For example, taking EZActions Midnight Action....run it on a color image, then convert it BW.....nice soft glowy BW photo. Take the same photo and overlay it with the color photo also created using the Midnight action. lower the opacity and you acquire a muted soft look. Create overlays of the image that was edited with an action over the original photo and change the opacity. There is no wrong or right, just play until you stumble across a look that fits the image and one that you like.

I just tried something along those lines.

View it here:
http://www.prestophoto.com/photos/image/732305

snowfall,
kimi_boo posted a link for the Creative Homework of the week for textures. While I was looking through their site I found some really nice grunge brushes. I thought maybe it might be something you want to check out. Here's the link http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/psbrushes/?order=9&startts=1199260800&endts=1199347200. Good luck!

tnjewels & Denise, Thank you both for your help & recomendations. I really appreciate it.