Digital Photography

Photography Workshop Review: Zack Arias One Light

December 1, 2011

Pin It My latest photography workshop adventure? Zack Arias’ One Light. This is an actual quote from me during the class: I don’t ever want to shoot without an off camera flash AGAIN. Yes, I actually said that. I went from being intimidated by the whole idea of Off Camera Flash (OCF) to totally getting [...]

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Time to Relax

November 29, 2011

After a crazy but wonderful weekend with lots of families and kids activities, and a harried day of trying to stay on top of Cyber Monday deals yesterday, today I want to relax. I want to reconnect with things in life that inspire me and that add beauty to my life. Or that give me [...]

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Free Actions for Photoshop Elements – Facebook Fix from MCP

November 18, 2011

MCP has just released a new set of free actions for Photoshop Elements! If you are tired of the photos that you upload to Facebook looking blurry and fuzzy, this is the set for you. MCP’s Facebook Fix contains 13 actions that will do all this for your images: Size single images just right for [...]

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Lightroom Presets from MCP – Change the Way You Edit!

October 17, 2011

You all know how great MCP’s actions for Elements are, right? Are you ready to have that same quality and gorgeous look in Lightroom? MCP’s Quick Clicks Collection for Lightroom is here to save you time and create gorgeous edits. Its one click convenience and intuitive organization is going to make your photo edits a [...]

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Ready to Learn Elements? Sale Ends Sunday

October 14, 2011

Have you been thinking about making your photo-editing life easier by purchasing one of Texas Chicks’ Ready, Set products? If so, buy before Sunday night, October 16, to take advantage of the introductory offer. Buy either Ready, Set, Actions! or Ready, Set, Elements and receive Ready, Set, Color! at no cost. Just make sure to add Ready, [...]

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PSE Tutorial: Clone Tool vs. Spot Healing Brush for Blemish Removal

October 13, 2011

Photoshop Elements gives us several options for getting rid of distractions in our photos, whether they are spots on faces or strangers in the background. My two favorite tools for this type of edit are: Spot Healing Brush Clone Tool And people always want to know which to use where. That’s what we’ll talk about [...]

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Free Lightroom Presets from MCP

October 11, 2011

Lightroom users (I know a lot of you are), this is for you! Ice Cream Shoppe and Increase Exposure 1 Stop Jodi from MCP and I have been working very hard on developing a comprehensive and user friendly set of Lightroom presets. I have to tell you, it took some convincing on my part – [...]

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Watch my Skin Tone Perfecting Video for Free!

October 7, 2011

Ready, Set, Color! is one of my hot-off-the-presses products that will change your Elements editing life FOREVER. You can learn how to edit photos like this: Would you like to watch this video for free? It’s yours with the purchase of either of my other products: Ready, Set, Actions! is a 90 page interactive [...]

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Photoshop Elements 10 – Should You Upgrade?

October 6, 2011

Adobe released Photoshop Elements 10 just recently. To paraphrase an old friend of mine, “To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question.” Elements 10 has 2 big new features, in my opinion. Text on a path – this feature was added just for scrapbookers. See all the new features under the text tool? [...]

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Elements Classes Beginning Wednesday, October 5

October 4, 2011

Last call for the Ready, Set, Elements LIVE class series that begins October 5 at 10:30 AM CST. People have been asking me for a while now whether they could access recordings of my classes after the fact, just in case they don’t remember everything the first time round. I mean really, absorbing an hour [...]

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Adjust Sharpness vs. High Pass

September 9, 2011

In Photoshop Elements, it seems that the most commonly used types of sharpening are High Pass and Adjust Sharpness/Unsharp Mask. These are two of the top Methods from my Top 12 list of sharpening methods. I used to use the High Pass method almost exclusively, but lately I’ve found myself going for Adjust Sharpening more. [...]

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Beginning Photographer? Check Out this Book

September 8, 2011

Photographing People, by Haje Jan Kamps, recently arrived on my desk for reviewing. The timing is great – this is the time of the year when moms want to document some fabulous firsts. The first day of school, first soccer game, first dance class. (We had our first dance class today and I have never [...]

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What’s the Deal with Installing Actions on Lion?

September 7, 2011

Mac is certainly making things difficult on us action lovers lately. First, there’s the mess regarding Elements purchased from the App Store, and how you can’t install most actions into it. Now, Lion is making it difficult for us to find the main Mac Hard Drive. If you’ve installed actions on a Mac before, you [...]

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Posing Couples the Harlequin Way

September 6, 2011

Hear me out on this before you click away thinking the Texas heat has gone to my head… Posing for photography is hard, but so important, right? We want our images to celebrate that emotional connection that makes a photo so much more than a record of two people who stood together in a pretty [...]

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