November 30th, 2010
I’ve deciding that this week will be the “week of Lightroom 3” here at becoming mom. Several things converged having to do with Lightroom this week that make it worth celebrating!
1) The imminent release of the LR3 plugin for …
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October 26th, 2010
Sunday I finally, FINALLY got Jasper to put on his Halloween Costume! I have the whole story up on my photography site, but let’s just say it wasn’t easy. So once he was in it, I couldn’t let him …
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October 6th, 2010
I was just preparing a few images of this adorable girl’s shoot to post on my photography blog and I thought I would do a quick tutorial on something that I had to do in almost every image from this …
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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 make adjustments …
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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 in …
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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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