November 11th, 2011
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 …
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June 23rd, 2011
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. …
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March 11th, 2011
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:




Let me …
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December 27th, 2010
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 …
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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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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: …
Filed under: Photography Links, Photoshop Tutorials, Tutorials, Uncategorized by ariana
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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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