The Beautiful Story Behind Patti Brown’s Kaleidoscope (And a Beautiful Coupon)

March 22, 2012

I have long been a fan of Kaleidoscope’s textures and overlays.  But more than that, I think I’ve always been a fan of Patti Brown herself.  I love hearing stories about women who have created successful and rewarding careers for themselves and thought you might enjoy this story also. You might also enjoy the coupon [...]

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Quick and Easy Access to Your Favorite Actions

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A few weeks back, I posted this freebie to help you organize your actions in Photoshop Elements. However, if there are just a few actions and effects that you want quick access to, there is a much easier way.  You can see my favorite actions below. Look at the Favorites Panel in the screen shot [...]

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How to Embed Copyright Information in Your Work

March 16, 2012

Do you embed your copyright info into each and every photo you take?  I do. I use Lightroom to apply this information, but Elements and full Photoshop also have the same capability.  As with most tasks, Lightroom makes it effortless as compared to the Photoshop products. While importing photos into Lightroom, I use the Apply [...]

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Photo Booth Ideas

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I got to run the photo booth at my daughter’s elementary school “Daughter” dance.  My camera and I haven’t had so much fun together in a long time! Pin It The ladies in the photo above are the chairs of the Daughter Dance Committee.  They did an amazing job.  And the French theme was so [...]

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What Does It Mean to Shoot One Stop Over?

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Have you ever heard people saying that they like to shoot “one stop over?”  Or “a half stop under”? Pin It Photographers choose to shoot this way because they are better judges of proper exposure than their cameras.  Cameras set exposure by trying to create a bell curve from the pixels in your photo.  Most [...]

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Printing Tips for Your Photographs

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Most of you know that Red River is my source for photo paper for my home printers.  And they’ve been a long-time sponsor of Texas Chicks too.  I knew Red River was on to something when they started selling 12×12 paper years ago.  Do you remember when it used to be so hard to find? [...]

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New MCP Freebie for Facebook Users

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What a relief that Jodi from MCP Actions has made Facebook Timeline templates.  Because I can tell you that I’d be going with whatever Facebook dished out to me otherwise.  A Facebook graphics master I am not. So not only did Jodi make a template for us, she gave us 8 customizable templates to choose [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Organize Your Actions with this Free Download

March 2, 2012

Photoshop Elements and actions.  It takes forever for us to install them, and once they’re installed, we have to scroll through a long list of stuff in Photo Effects in order to find them. You have to scroll forever unless you know the magic trick for organizing your actions into menu categories, that is.  These [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial: Use Import Presets to Save Time and Apply Edits Automatically

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EDIT:  Today, February 29 only, Lightroom 3 is on sale at Amazon for $89.  On March 2, Lightroom 3 is on sale at Amazon for $129. I suspect that vendors are trying to turn over their LR3 stock before Lightroom 4 is released.  This is a great way to get started in LR if you’re not [...]

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Live Online Classes: New Schedule for Lightroom and Elements (plus an Earlybird Discount)

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The new Texas Chicks LIVE ONLINE class schedule for the next couple of months is ready for you! Sign up for Elements classes here.  The Elements classes consist of 3 hour and a half to two hour classes. Is it Lightroom you’re ready to master?  Register for LR classes here.  The Lightroom series has 2 [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial: Correct Distortion and Remove Vignetting (Yes, your photos are distorted. You just didn’t notice.)

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Lightroom can do amazing things. You probably didn’t even realize your photos were distorted, right?  And you think a lot about adding vignettes without realizing that your photos might have natural vignetting already.  The distortion and vignetting in the image below has been corrected.  Mouseover it for the before view. Pin It Big difference, right? [...]

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Photography Tutorial: Back Button Focus (Reprise)

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Back Button Focus is one of those intimidating photography techniques that we hear about and think they might help, if only we could figure them out.  In my opinion anyway. Pin It I wrote about BBF a long time ago and used it for a couple of years, but have drifted away from it lately. [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Free Transform to Resize and Locate

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Free Transform is a Photoshop Elements command that lets you size and locate design elements in your photo or graphic file. Pin It You’ll most often see it in one of the following situations: Adding a texture to an image (locate and size the texture to fit the image) Watermarking an image (place the watermark [...]

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Camera Tutorial: My Menu Settings, Part 2

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Yesterday, I wrote about the Quick Menu settings that I shoot with on my Canon 7D and 5DMII.  Today, I’ll be going through the big menus on both cameras! And you thought yesterday’s post was wordy…. A few notes before we begin.  I’m only going to address the settings that I’ve changed – if I [...]

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