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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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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July 10th, 2009
I felt as if I were in a post processing slump lately.. I had some good captures that I just feel like I couldn’t get to “pop” you know? Particularly the faces.. they just seemed too washed out and didn’t…
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June 26th, 2009
Some months back I stumbled upon a free Lightroom preset pack from the Presets Heaven blog called PH the Weddings. There is one preset in that package called “PH fantasy wedding” that the author…
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May 29th, 2009
In this video tutorial I’ll show you how to use the clone stamp tool to get rid of a distracting part of your image, like the beer bottle in the picture below.
Before

After

Like magic right?
>>Click…
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May 15th, 2009
In a previous tutorial I showed you how to quick fix your exposure and color cast by setting the white and black points in a curves adjustment layer by guessing the light and dark points. I also showed…
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April 29th, 2009
So I mentioned yesterday that we had a mini family reunion Saturday. It was a beautiful but HOT day (hence why Jasper is in diaper only!) with a lot of overhead sun – not at all ideal for picture…
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April 3rd, 2009
I say the old fashioned way because last week I showed you how to do a black and white conversion using an action. The action we used utilizes the same gradient map method that this video tutorial goes over,…
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