Using Your Camera’s Histogram Display
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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
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Photography Basics: RAW vs. Jpg
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: it has...
View ArticlePhotoshop Tutorial : How to Stretch the Canvas
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...
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Photoshop Tutorial : Removing Color Casts in Two Seconds Flat!
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: Before...
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Making Grass Green
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...
View ArticlePhotoshop Tutorial: Selective Leveling
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...
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Making black fabric backrounds REALLY black in Photoshop
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 know if you...
View ArticleCreating Smart Collections in Lightroom – and WHY
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...
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Editing ONLY in Lightroom: Before & After with Video
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...
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