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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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Photoshop Elements Actions: A Secret Use for Magic Skin

June 10, 2011

MCP’s Magic Skin action for Photoshop Elements is my favorite way to soften and brighten skin in a jif. But did you know that it can be used to blur backgrounds and even remove noise as well? That’s right. It’s not just for skin! Last week I wrote up a tutorial about retouching portraits. Well, [...]

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Free Action for Photoshop Elements: Mini Fusion Tutorial

May 20, 2011

Mini Fusion, MCP’s latest free action for Photoshop Elements, has gotten so many raves that it’s worthy of a tutorial showing just what this freebie is capable of. Actions, as we all know, sometimes make a huge and instant impact on a photo, and other times they need tweaking. The beauty of Mini Fusion is [...]

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Free Florabella Collage Templates for Elements

May 10, 2011

Florabella, the home of beautiful and dreamy actions and textures for Photoshop and Elements, has a free template set on Facebook. Have you seen it yet? She mentioned that it wouldn’t last much longer, so you better download now if you’re interested. The set contains 4 diptychs and a triptych. In addition to the written [...]

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New Photoshop Elements Action – MCP Fusion: One Click Workflow, Infinite Possibilities

March 1, 2011

MCP has just released the Fusion action set for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and it is absolutely incredible. With this set, you might not need to do anything else to your pictures! Fusion combines the most versatile and user-friendly workflow actions with beautiful color black & white conversions. Because of this set’s unique structure (it’s [...]

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Post Processing: Adjusting Lightroom Presets and Processing a Mom’s Emotions

February 16, 2011

How many of you use presets in Lightroom? Like Photoshop actions, Lightroom presets are shortcuts to getting the look you want, especially if you don’t know exactly how to get that look on your own. And presets, just like actions, can be fine-tuned after you apply them to an image. There is no way that [...]

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Valentine’s Photo Ideas and a New Free Action from MCP

February 14, 2011

Details on the brand new free action from MCP are at the end of this post. I think that photo Valentines are a new tradition in our house. This is the card we’re passing out today. I saw a similar picture somewhere on the internet recently, but can’t for the life of me remember where. [...]

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New Free Action for Photoshop Elements

February 9, 2011

My newest free action for Photoshop Elements is my special Luminosity Sharpening. It’s super strong, but avoids halos and that crispy look that often accompany high levels of sharpening. You can download it from my Facebook page. Just click on “Like” (if you haven’t already) and the it’s all yours! These pictures demonstrate how this [...]

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Photoshop Elements Actions: MCP All in the Details

February 4, 2011

MCP’s All in the Details for Photoshop Elements was released this week. Have you seen it in action yet? (You can click on these images to zoom in.) I did another shoot last weekend for Smart Flour Foods and used All in the Details on several of my images. These are sneak peeks for the [...]

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Photoshop Elements Actions: MCP All in the Details Is Now Available

February 2, 2011

Do you want that “MCP Look” for your own images? Now you can, Photoshop Elements users. MCP’s signature look features clean edits with rich, deep colors and details that stand out. And All in the Details is one of the most popular MCP Actions. It brings out hidden textures and colors in your photos. At [...]

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Install Actions in Elements: Action Player Vs. Effects Palette

January 31, 2011

Installing actions in Photoshop Elements is just not intuitive, right? At least we can say that it’s slowly getting easier. Lots of people are designing specifically for the Action Player of PSE now. This tool is Adobe’s attempt at making it easier to install our favorite automations into PSE. And when it works, it’s great. [...]

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Photoshop Elements Actions and Textures – A Recipe

November 29, 2010

Using Textures and Action in Photoshop Elements can take a good picture to amazing. They are also a good way to while away a Sunday afternoon. (JUST IN: As I was about to hit “publish” on this post, Patti Brown emailed me to say that even though she is sick and in bed, she had [...]

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Photoshop Elements Class Schedule

November 22, 2010

The new Photoshop Elements online class schedule is ready. Are YOU ready to edit all the awesome photos you’ll take during the holidays? Choose from 3 dates for Elements from A to Z and 3 dates for Elements ACTIONS from A to Z. Each class comes with a detailed note-taking form so that you can [...]

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New Free Action for PSE and More from the I Heart Faces Workshop

November 21, 2010

First off, MCP is offering a free action for Elements users to her Facebook fans. It’s called the Facebook Fix. It will optimize your images for posting on Facebook by sizing and sharpening to just the right amount – this action works on single images or builds collages of two images. Go fan MCP and [...]

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