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Photoshop Elements Actions – 2 New Freebies to Try + Contest Winners

by Erin March 11, 2010

Photoshop Elements Free Action lovers, there are two new ones for you to try.
Digital Backdrops
The first is a set of 10 actions that create Digital Backdrops of any color in 10 sizes. Like this:

You can use it to put behind a subject to make your photo look more like a traditional studio shot, or to [...]

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Contest and Pioneer Woman Hints

by Erin March 3, 2010

Contests are fun, especially when Red River Paper is giving away two boxes of greeting card stock to 10 winners! Don’t forget to enter! I will announce the winner next Tuesday.
Also, I read on Pioneer Woman today that she would let us know the details within the next couple of days about her actions being [...]

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Print Quality – Photos Too Dark? Try This.

by Erin March 2, 2010

This installment on Photo Print Quality – “My Prints Are Too Dark” was written by Drew Hendrix of Red River Paper. Installment 1 was on calibrating laptops and matte photo paper. Installment 2 addressed the Adobe RGB and sRGB workspaces. This installment ends with a contest that 10 people will win! Read through to [...]

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Photo Print Quality – Adobe RGB vs. sRGB Working Space

by Erin March 1, 2010

Photo Print Quality Working Space Issues is the 2nd part of a series presented by Drew Hendrix of Red River Paper. Feel free to post questions for Drew if you have any after reading this post.
A working space is an ICC profile that defines all the color values relative to RGB values of human [...]

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Photoshop Elements Shortcuts to Perfection – Meet MCP

by Erin February 27, 2010

Photoshop hands-on time is shorter and more effective for many of us thanks to the wonderful action makers out there. Jodi Friedman is one of those action makers – she is incredibly talented and knows Photoshop like you wouldn’t believe.
She recently hired me to convert some of her actions for Photoshop Elements. What a great [...]

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Photography in Manual – Clickin’ Moms Class

by Erin February 25, 2010

EDIT: THE CLICKIN’ MOMS BEGINNER WORKSHOP IS FULL AS OF THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Photography on the manual setting – a lot of us talk about it. I’m even getting to the point where I’m more comfortable in manual. Which isn’t to say that I don’t still miss the exposure a lot. . . .
Anyway, for you Clickin’ [...]

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Print Quality Questions Answered – Part 1

by Erin February 24, 2010

Print Quality. sRGB vs Adobe RGB. Calibration. So many issues related to these topics are huge for photographers. And Texas Chick readers posed excellent questions last week for Drew Hendrix of Red River Paper
Drew is going to explain all the issues over multiple posts.
The first questions are from Rob, who uses a tablet laptop for [...]

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Practice Your Photography. It’s OK.

by Erin February 20, 2010

Photography is a hobby and luxury in my life. I often feel like taking time to practice – just me and my camera – is an indulgence.
Last week, I found some time with no kids and homework to complete for my photography workshop. I stopped at a park I drive by every day and practiced [...]

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Ask Photo Print Quality Questions Here, Now. Read the Answers Next Week.

by Erin February 19, 2010

Is Color Management from your camera to your monitor to your printer as iffy for you as it is for me? Do your photographs always print exactly like you expect?
I’ve written about my own color management process here. And now, we have an expert who is going to help us all and correct my mistakes!
Drew [...]

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Photography Help: 10% Discount and Huge Contest to Enter

by Erin February 16, 2010

Photographers, Clickin’ Moms will improve your photography. And bloggers, Clickin’ Moms can earn money for you.

So many of you have already discovered what a great place Clickin’ Moms is. If you haven’t yet, it’s time. Take advantage of this 10% discount by entering discount code FRIEND.

With over 4,000 members, there is always someone around with [...]

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The Light Workshop – 1st Assignment!

by Erin February 16, 2010

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I would participate in an online Natural Light workshop taught by Detra of Photography by Detra. Detra invited me to participate in exchange for spreading the word about the class. My first “homework” assignment is above and I’ve learned a good bit already.
Detra has a forum set up [...]

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Why I Don’t Use Photoshop Elements’ Action Player

by Erin February 14, 2010

There has been lots of discussion in various forums lately about using PSE’s Action Player for installing and running actions. Here’s why I don’t use it (much):

Every action that works in PSE will work by installing actions the long way that I detail on these installation pages.
Not every action that works in PSE will work [...]