July 21st, 2010
I just finished editing a family session where the little girl was wearing a NEON green shirt in some of the images. Neon green shirt = neon green color casts on her face!
Here is the before:
And now the…
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May 13th, 2010
Before bothering to watch this tutorial, please note that content aware scale is a feature that was introduced as of photoshop CS4. If you don’t have cs4 or higher, maybe watch anyway because it may influence your decision to upgrade!…
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April 30th, 2010
We’ve never delved into channels before here (except for channels adjustment layer tweaks) and truth be told I’d forgotten what a useful tool channels are to have in your photoshop arsenal until recently!
Here we cover how to…
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March 10th, 2010
Of course this goes for ANY sort of portrait retouching, but in the world of family photography, lets face it, it’s usually mom who doesn’t like the way she looks (myself included!) These tips come in handy for family sessions…
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March 4th, 2010
A lot of people asked me about my newborn post processing, and what I “do to my photos” in photoshop. For many images, my goal is as little as possible other than white balance! That works much of the time,…
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February 3rd, 2010
How to use Lightroom (or ACR) to adjust the white balance of your image and then how to check and finetune it in Photoshop. This tutorial uses the CMY % method of correct skintones that I first learned about…
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February 1st, 2010
I was pleasantly surprised at how many of you lucky ladies said you got a new DSLR under the tree for the holidays, so I wanted to do a quick little primer on RAW vs. jpg: What is RAW (hint:…
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January 13th, 2010
I have been getting a lot of questions about focus recently, and I think it’s a good topic to discuss because so many of you are new to DSLRs and focus can be a sticky issue at first (and always…
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November 6th, 2009
It’s been way too long since my last video tutorial.. the wait is now over (I can hear your collective sighs of relief ;)
This is something I just learned how to do.. select JUST the highlights of an image…
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August 28th, 2009
Here’s a little video I put together showing you how to use your DSLR’s display option to toggle to the histogram view. Histograms (with the exception of a few extreme lighting situations) are an excellent tool you can use to…
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