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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April 21st, 2010
I’m preparing for a shoot this weekend that’s going to be so much fun! Think tiaras, tractors, Jasper his girlfriend Lola and you’ll see why this is a bit of a challenge.. first of all, where to find a tractor?? …
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March 16th, 2010
First of all, sorry about the silence on the blog yesterday.. a couple of things conspired against me, not the least of which is the Nor’easter that has left Jasper’s daycare without power for going on two days now which…
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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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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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