June 2010

Photography Inspiration

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Without photographic inspiration, I sometimes get bored with my images.  It usually only takes a quick internet surf to get me back in the mood with new goals and ideas for my photographic journey.   Kelly Willette’s Finding the Joy workshop, which I’m taking right now, is also a great source of inspiration.  You can read [...]

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Clickin’ Moms Sale!

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Now’s the time to join Clickin’ Moms if you’ve been thinking about it.  Use coupon code FRIEND to save 10% on the 6 month or full year memberships.  Or (and this is a great deal!), use discount code LOVECM to save 20% on a lifetime subscription to Clickin’ Moms!  An offer like that doesn’t come [...]

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Photoshop Textures Coupon Code for Kaleidoscope

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Textures for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements by Patti Brown were the prize in the most recent giveaway here at Texas Chicks.  Did you win?  Check your email box!  The winners have been notified.  And don’t forget to check your spam folder. If you didn’t win and can’t resist buying Patti’s Supernatural texture set, use coupon [...]

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Photoshop Textures Giveaway – Last Day to Enter

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Just a quick reminder that the Kaleidoscope contest ends on Tuesday, June 15, at noon CST.  You could win one of 5 sets of Patti Brown’s latest texture set, Supernatural. Don’t forget to enter!  Good luck!

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I Heart Faces Photo Walk

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The Photo Walk sponsored by I Heart Faces last weekend was a blast! How many of you participated in your local walk? So many nice women attended this walk, and we had 4 awesome models.  Not to mention Steve, a friendly street musician. And I learned something about myself as a photographer too.  I will [...]

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Photoshop Textures – Kaleidoscope Giveaway Time

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Textures can create beautiful effects in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.  The best textures make your images absolutely stunning.  Add incredible video tutorials to these textures, and you’ve become a texture master. Patti Brown’s Kaleidoscope textures are the cream of the texture crop and her video tutorials, as I’ve mentioned before, are absolutely amazing.  Even if [...]

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Save 30% on Lightroom 3

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Lightroom 3 is available, finally!  I just ordered my upgrade.  It has great new features like drastically improved noise reduction and oddly, just the opposite – LR will now add grain to your image if you’d like some texture.  Watermarking is now a feature (it’s about time) and you can now export photo slideshows as [...]

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The Light Workshop – Final Review

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Detra’s Light Workshop went on for most of the spring, and it’s time for my final reflections on it.  You can read my first posts about it here and here. I have received several emails and seen detailed discussion at Clickin’ Moms about this workshop.  Here is my two cents worth. Disclosure before we go [...]

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Elements Crashes After Installing Actions

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As if it’s not hard enough to install actions into Photoshop Elements, every once in a while PSE will crash even though you’ve done everything right.  Have you ever seen this message after opening Elements? Just to be clear here, this is not the same as getting the “Not Responding” message while MediaDatabase is rebuilding.  [...]

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