Digital Photography

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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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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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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New Free Action for Photoshop Elements: Create and Customize a Notecard

December 16, 2011

Happy holidays to each of you. Thank you for being such fun photography buddies! My holiday gift to each of you incredible readers is a free action for Photoshop Elements. It’s that time of year, right? Lots of thank you notes to write. As if that weren’t bad enough, wringing them out of the kids [...]

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Facebook Apps for Photographers

December 13, 2011

I’ve had some issues lately with my Facebook apps. You know, the one that makes free stuff available if you “Like” my page? You might have noticed! I’m sorry, if so. I have fixed the problem, however, thanks to Ripe Social. The timing couldn’t have been better when this designer of apps for custom Facebook [...]

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MyPix2Canvas: Canvas Review and Coupon for You

December 8, 2011

NOTE: ORDER BY DECEMBER 10 TO ENSURE CHRISTMAS DELIVERY. It seems like you can print your photos on canvas anywhere these days. I am so besieged by groupons and Facebook ads advertising canvas printing that I have completely tuned them out. However, MyPix2Canvas contacted me recently and asked me to review a 16×20 gallery wrap. [...]

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Ready, Set, Actions! Free Chapter for You.

December 5, 2011

Pin It Curious about whether my ebook, Ready, Set, Actions! will really tell you everything you need to know about getting the most from your actions in Elements? Read the first chapter (plus some) for free. Download it on Texas Chicks Facebook page – just look for the words “Free Book Download” on the left. [...]

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