Digital Photography

New Texas Chicks Class Schedule and Earlybird Discount Code

May 17, 2012

Is this summer your time to learn Elements or Lightroom? Here is your chance! The Texas Chicks summer schedule of Photoshop Elements and Lightroom classes has been posted and is waiting for your registration! And, if you sign up between now and May 28, you can save 20% on your workshops! If you’re wondering whether an [...]

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Help! My Layer Mask is Broken

May 9, 2012

Elements users send me lots of emails like this: My layer mask doesn’t work The new action I just installed doesn’t work I run an action and nothing changes I’ve been using Elements for many years now, and I’ve never once encountered a broken layer mask. Friends, it’s user error. Layer masks don’t break. And [...]

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The Best Books for Learning Photography

April 12, 2012

So far in “Education Week” here at Texas Chicks we’ve covered: The best forum for getting quick answers to questions on photography and post-processing, plus the most complete source for creative workshops The best videos to learn photography from the pros And today, here is my list of the best books to learn photography and [...]

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Education Week: Learn from the Pros at Photovision

April 11, 2012

Continuing this week’s education theme, I’m documenting the resources that have taught me the most about photography over the past few years. Photovision is a resource that I’ve recommended quite often over the past year. So much so, in fact, that Photovision sent me a brand spankin’ new camera in thanks! Just as rewarding as [...]

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Education Week at Texas Chicks: Learn Everything Photography

April 10, 2012

This week Texas Chicks is featuring a series of posts on the best places to improve your photography and post-processing skills. I have been a member of Clickin’ Moms for going on 4 years now. I began my in-depth photography education there, and I still learn from the marvelous women (plus a few men) on [...]

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The Missing Manual for Elements: Meet the Brains Behind this Encyclopedia

April 4, 2012

Continuing my series of interviews with women who have made careers for themselves in our photography world, today I’d like to introduce you to Barbara Brundage. This woman knows more about Photoshop Elements than anyone I’ve ever encountered. Every year, she writes the Photoshop Elements Missing Manual with its 600 plus pages. Not only does Barbara pull [...]

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1000Memories Introduces Shoeboxes (and a contest for you!)

April 3, 2012

Have any of you ever visited 1000Memories? They contacted me recently to talk about their new product – Shoeboxes. You know those shoeboxes full of old, unorganized photos you have in the attic? Yep, it’s time to digitize them and put them on the internet to share with friends and family. From their press release: [...]

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Photography Inspiration: Shooting by Color

March 23, 2012

I’ve documented my journey through Angie Warren’s Fly Guide here on Texas Chicks. As I finish it up, I can say that what I loved most about the project was that it suggested assignments for shooting that took me out of my comfort zone. The assignments went far beyond what to shoot – each of [...]

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New MCP Freebie for Facebook Users

March 5, 2012

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

February 24, 2012

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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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: How to Move Actions When You Upgrade PSE

February 14, 2012

As if it’s not hard enough to install actions into Photoshop Elements, what happens to your actions when you decide to upgrade to the latest version of PSE? The unfortunate answer is that you have to re-install the suckers. Luckily, you can, in most cases, just copy the files from your old version of Elements [...]

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Ready, Set, Actions! Free Download for You

February 7, 2012

Did you know that you can read the first 2 and a half chapters of my eBook, Ready, Set, Actions! for free, just by liking my Facebook page? You will learn: What actions will do and what they won’t do An overview of the two ways to install actions into PSE What to do before [...]

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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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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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