Creating an Album for your/your client’s iPad

I love the idea of giving my clients not just a PHYSICAL album, but one that they can also enjoy and take with them on their mobile devices (hello marketing!)

There are tons of different directions you could go with …

Adobe PS Touch now Available for iPad: And Why Pro Photographers NEED it!

Monday Adobe announced the availability of it’s  Photoshop Touch App for iPad!

Adobe’s marketing materials state: “The new Adobe® Photoshop® Touch app lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking

Editing ONLY in Lightroom: Before & After with Video

A few weeks ago, I was reading an interesting thread on www.ilovephotography.com where one of the most respected members said that most photographers don’t use Lightroom for more than organization and basic fixes like White balance and exposure. In her …

Creating Smart Collections in Lightroom – and WHY

I do most of my initial edits in lightroom (basic exposure adjustment, white balance) and then any image I present to clients gets further polishing in Photoshop. That means that every file that I present will be a PSD file. …

Making Session Album Prints in Lightroom – Free Template Included!

In my first collection that includes an album, I use the Finao Self mount (Eements) albums:

Self mount just means that you order the prints from your own lab and then mount them in the album via peel and …

Lightroom Targeted Adjustment Tool for Quick Saturation and Contrast Boost

This post will be partly about lens choices and partly about editing since I had a bunch of questions about both after I posted images of our Florida Trip!

First, the lenses. After debating a bit, I decided to …

Photoshop Friday: Merging two Exposures from Lightroom into Photoshop Layers

There’s been a big buzz lately on photography forums about this new OnOne software called “Perfect Layers.”  Right now it’s in Free public Beta, but they plan on releasing it with a $160 price tag.  From the marketing …

Making black fabric backrounds REALLY black in Photoshop

This is a technique that I use with all of my baby or baby and parents on black. Even though the SOOC looks like this:

It’s just a few quick steps to get that clean pure black look:

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Let me …

Photoshop Tutorial: Selective Leveling

I first learned this method of improving local contrast from Damien in a thread he posted on ILP.  If you don’t already know about Damien’s blog, he’s got some really great posts and tutorials about everything from post processing …

My Workflow from Lightroom to Photoshop

Sorry this came a few days after promised. I’ve been plagued with technical problems, from my desktop microphone failing to some bizarre issue where one part of the audio got unsynched from the video. That and the fact that I …