Photoshop Friday: Using Channels for Correction and B&W Conversions

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…

Apple Orchard in Bloom

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?? …

Of Noise and Noiseware

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…

Portrait Retouching : Making Mom Look Good

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…

Photoshop Friday : Newborn Editing

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,…

Skintones by the Numbers Photoshop Tutorial

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…

Photoshop Friday: How to add brightness without clipping highlights

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…

Photoshop Friday: Selective Levels Adjustments!

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…

The Lightroom Preset from Heaven

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…

Photoshop Friday : Cloning – Making Objects Disappear!

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

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After

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Like magic right?

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