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A Newborn Editing Video with Techniques from My Clickin Moms Workshop

May 24, 2013

My Photoshop Elements 101 online workshop at Clickin Moms will begin on June 24.  Have you registered yet? If you want to learn how to take red newborn skin and make it creamy and bright, this 4 week workshop will give you the techniques you need!  You’ll learn how to edit just about any photo [...]

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Win a $100 Gift Certificate from Mpix – Just in Time for Father’s Day

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Father’s Day is approaching.  Do you know what you’re getting for the fathers in your life yet? Thanks to Mpix, I already have my husband’s gift.  And lucky for me, he never reads my blog, so I can tell you guys all about it! This year, I ordered a framed print from Mpix.  I printed [...]

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How to Take a Photo of a Really Big Group

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Taking photos of a large group can be difficult.  Taking photos of a very large group can be very stinkin’ difficult. That’s what I was working with last Sunday.  My church has 4 services each Sunday, but we consolidate those services into 1 several times a year.  On this particular Sunday, most people wear red [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial: Identify Blown Out Highlights in Your Photo

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Lightroom users, this tutorial will show you how to find and (hopefully) repair blown out areas of your photos. Blown out areas, as you know, are parts of the image that are so overexposed that there is little to no pixel information available in them.  They show up as pure white areas in a photo. [...]

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A Magazine Dedicated to Photoshop Elements

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You guys are serious about Photoshop Elements, I know.  I know because of the questions you ask, the comments you leave, and the interest generated whenever I write Photoshop Elements tutorials here at Texas Chicks. For those of you who are especially serious about learning the ins and outs of PSE, Photoshop Elements Techniques is a [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial: Start to Finish Edit

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As a follow up to a step by step Lightroom tutorial that I ran a few weeks back, here is another start-to-finish edit from my princess in a castle shoot.  Like the other edit, this photo never left Lightroom (except to add the rounded corners and caption area for display purposes using MCP’s Finish It.) [...]

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What to Do With Your iPhone Photos

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Some of my favorite photos are on my iPhone – the completely candid, real life, don’t-have-my-big-camera-with-me photos.  Even though I’ve found a way to import those photos automatically to Lightroom, I don’t usually do anything with them beyond that. Linea has solved that problem by creating the first app that lets you print a photo [...]

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Vacationing with a Small Camera – Olympus OMD Review

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Have you ever thought about taking a smaller camera on your next vacation?  Like a point and shoot or a mirrorless dSLR? I just returned from a trip to England, and I took only my Olympus OM-D E-M5 with me.  It was an experiment – I wasn’t sure whether I could live without the big [...]

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Win Snapshot to Photograph: Mastering Your DSLR

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I know that I have lots of readers who are fairly new to the world of dSLRs.  I suspect that even more Texas Chicks readers have had their cameras for a while, but are still feeling a bit intimidated by them. Snapshot to Photograph is an online workshop available any time, any where.  It’s designed [...]

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Mother’s Day Photo Gifts: Accordion Minis from Mpix

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Mother’s Day is coming.  Are you ready?  Photographers know that giving photo gifts takes a little advance work – now’s the time to start if you plan on giving pictures of your cuties to grandma this year. When I was talking with Mpix (a sponsor of Texas Chicks) about what we should feature for Mother’s [...]

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Free Action for Photoshop Elements: Change the Background or Create a Backdrop

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  First off for you Lightroom users, I added new online Lightroom classes to the schedule.  They will meet during the evening in early June.  Look at the schedule and register here. A couple of months ago, I shot all students, teams and coaches at a large gymnastics academy.  A big job like that requires [...]

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Kaleidoscope Lightscapes, a Freebie, & a Store Discount

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Patti Brown released a new product over at Kaleidoscope not too long ago.  Have you used it yet?  Lightscapes contains 144 light overlays that add flare, bokeh, haze and other light effects to photos. I’ve played with Lightscapes over the past month and wanted to share my photos with you – these overlays are subtle.  [...]

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Lightroom 5 Beta Now Available

April 15, 2013

I have been playing with the Lightroom Beta and I’m so excited that I can tell you about it now! As of 12:30 PM PST today, April 15, you can download the Beta for Lightroom 5 from Adobe’s website. There are a few features in this beta that I am particularly excited about. What are [...]

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10 Tips for Storytelling with Diptychs and Triptychs

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Combining photos for display in diptychs and triptychs is a great way to tell a story or describe a sequence of events.  Of course, they also make a quick and easy way to display photos on your blog or print a collage! These are the guidelines I generally follow when creating diptychs and triptychs in [...]

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