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What to Do When You Get a New Camera (Do This For Your Old Camera Too)

February 3, 2012

Do you want to hit the ground running with your new camera? Or what if you don’t have a new camera? I suspect that most of us haven’t done all this anyway on the cameras we’ve had for a while, so these are good tips for everyone. Read the manual. Read all of it, cover [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Top 10 Eye Fixes

February 2, 2012

When using Photoshop Elements to edit portraits or family photos, just about everyone wants to know how to make the eyes pop. Here are my favorite tricks for PSE (but they work in full Photoshop as well). Lots of them even have Lightroom equivalents. Pin It The most important tip for editing eyes is to [...]

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Thank You Photovision!

January 31, 2012

You guys have heard me talk about Photovision before, right? This is my favorite photography video series. Every other month, I receive a DVD from them with 3 or more hours of content. Several professional photographers are featured on each DVD, doing things like: setting up shoots and posing clients post-processing their images describing various [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Modify Textures to Suit Your Photos

January 27, 2012

Textures and overlays are a great tool for adding oomph to a photo, hiding distractions, and even adding atmospheric effects. You can get much more out of your textures if you know how to modify them to suit your needs. My daughter was being a real champ at posing a couple of weeks ago, and [...]

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Photography Tutorial: Change This Setting on Your Camera NOW!

January 26, 2012

Pin It Consistently good focus in my photography is something I’m always working on. When I take photos, I look at the back of my camera for feedback on focus as well as exposure. Some (rude) people call this chimping. Of course, you have to zoom way in to verify that focus is good on [...]

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Photography Inspiration: Self Portraits

January 25, 2012

Pin It Self portrait photo assignments give me anxiety. Not to mention the fact that looking at my appearance isn’t my favorite pastime, self portraits are just plain hard. How do you focus? How do you hold the camera? Does a mirror work?As I’ve mentioned a couple of times lately, I’m working through Angie Warren’s [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Correct Color Issues with Levels

January 20, 2012

Pin It Yes, Photoshop Elements does have something similar to color curves from full Photoshop and Lightroom 4. Did you know that? It occurred to me last week when writing about color curves in LR 4 that I have never done a tutorial on this blog about using the color channels in Levels to fix [...]

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Photography Inspiration: What does your home say about you?

January 19, 2012

My photography inspiration for the week is coming from the Fly Guide again. Last week, I shared my favorite photos as part of an exercise from the Fly Guide. This week, I worked on an assignment to document my life and household and help me identify who I am and what I truly love. Well, [...]

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Red River Paper: High Quality Paper for Your Home Printer

January 19, 2012

My source for paper for my home printer paper has been Red River Paper for a couple of years now. You Texas Chicks old timers might remember a series of posts on print quality that we did a couple of years back with Drew Hendrix of Red River Paper. Editing on a laptop, fine art [...]

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Lightroom 4: How to Access Color Curves

January 13, 2012

Lightroom 4 has just been released in beta version and it rocks! While LR 4 won’t completely replace Elements, it sure will be a time saver if you use it together with PSE. One of new the features that I am particularly excited about is the Color Curves function. For those of you that use [...]

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Photography Inspiration: How Taste Shapes My Favorite Photos

January 12, 2012

Photography inspiration quote of the day: Pin It Ira Glass is the host and producer of This American Life. I first read this passage on the blog of a photographer I’ve recently discovered named T. Morris and its appearance in my life coincided perfectly with a project I’m working on. It struck me so much that I wanted [...]

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A Tale of 3 Camera Straps

January 10, 2012

A camera straps is one of those things that you don’t think about until you have a new one to compare to. Especially if you’re dense like me and don’t make the connection between the crick in your neck and a long day of shooting…. Below are the 3 camera straps I own. The first [...]

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Valentine’s Photo Ideas

January 10, 2012

Valentine’s photos are usually much easier for me to manage than Christmas photos of the family. Since I didn’t get Christmas cards out last month, I just might send Valentines to everyone on my list this year. I haven’t decided what the pose will be yet, but I’m playing with some ideas. Do you have [...]

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New LIVE Classes: Lightroom and Elements

December 28, 2011

After a nice, relaxing holiday, I’m ready to dive back into work for the year! Live, Online Classes Texas Chicks’ 2012 classes for Photoshop Elements and Lightroom are open for registration. For you guys that have been requesting classes for a while now, I set up an early bird registration discount. Through Monday, January 2, [...]

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