MCP Actions™ Blog: Photography, Photo Editing & Photography Business Advice
The MCP Actions™ Blog is full of advice from experienced photographers written to help you improve your camera skills, post-processing and photography skill-sets. Enjoy editing tutorials, photography tips, business advice, and professional spotlights.
Making Holiday Cards In Photoshop {Brush Style}
In this post guest blogger Stephanie Gill of Tiny Tot Snapshot will show you how to make basic cards in Photoshop using the brush tool. Thank you Stephanie for this fun, easy to follow tutorial. Hello again, today I am going to give you another way to put your Photoshop brushes to use. Since the…
Invest in Your Logo & Branding: Learn From My Mistakes
Up till now, the biggest regret I have as far as my business is that I did not invest in branding, a logo, and marketing material when I was starting MCP Actions. MCP Actions was born as a spin off of my product photography and photo editing business Multiple Choices Photography, LLC. MCP Actions eventually…
20+ Songs with Shutter Clicks
The other day on Twitter and Facebook I posted asking people to brainstorm songs that had shutter clicking sounds in them – or clicking sounds made to sound like a shutter. Only a photographer can appreciate why I would even be thinking of this, right? I decided to compile a list and share. I have…
Blueprint of a Beautiful Senior – MCP Fan Share
Thank you for this Blueprint submission by Amanda Williams of In Your World Portraits. She edited this beautiful senior exchange student from Sweden using a few MCP Photoshop Action Sets to achieve her final result. Here are her steps: Magic Midtone Lifter from the Bag of Tricks Action Set Color Explosion from the Complete Workflow…
Using Tips, Tricks, and Reverse Psychology to Photograph Children
Photographing Children Can Be Tricky – You may need to use tips, tricks and even some reverse psychology… By Julie Cruz of Lot 116 Photography. “You’re like a magician!” “You have some sort of magical kid magnet powers!” Those are just a few of the things that parents have told me after I’ve photographed their…
To “defog” or not to “defog” in Lightroom or Photoshop
When you say the word defog to a photographer or Photoshop professional, you usually get one of three reactions: What is a “defog?” I LOVE defogging. It is the best! I hate defogging. It is the worst. Like many things in the photograph industry, it can be controversial. I have gotten into many disagreements on…
Lightroom Tutorial – Organizing Photos For Quick Editing
For more great Lightroom Tutorials (and lessons on the Beta version of Lightroom 3) join NAPP (The National Association of Photoshop Professionals). After you have flagged all your images as “picks” or “rejects” you can get down to making a collection of these images to edit. You will need to decide if you want to…
Lightroom Tutorial – The Speed Round – Sort Photos Faster
When using Lightroom, you may be tempted to “rate” your shots. Sorting them on a 1-5 scale takes a lot of time, or shall I say can waste a lot of time. You really need to decide, are you showing/keeping the image, or is the image unworthy. A better way to do this is to…
Last Card & Template Workshop for 2009 * 26 CARDS INCLUDED {November 18th}
Don’t miss out on the last CARD & TEMPLATE Workshop in 2009. Plus check out upcoming MCP Classes under the workshops tab (Curves, Color Crazy, Color Fixing, and Speed Editing). Are you in the market for holiday cards, birth announcements, templates, and other cards? Do you wish you knew how to use the cards and…
A Birthday Blueprint
For today’s blueprint, I wanted to celebrate a birthday. My own! Yep, today at 5:11AM I turned 38 years old. Wow! Time goes by fast. At the age of 38 I have come to have an appreciation for life. It is short, no matter how long we live. My great grandma lived until days before…
Winner of the Halloween Contest is…
The winner of the Halloween Contest (who wins the Holiday Templates by Ashe Designs) is…. Well my twins had a hard time picking – they loved so many of the costumes. But in the end, they are Brownies so they picked: Patty of Picture Perfect Passion who said she has dressed as a girl scout…
5,000 Friend Limit on Facebook: How Can a Social Networking Site Limit Friends?
5,000 Friend Limit on Facebook. I heard the rumors… Turns out they were true. Have you ever been told, “You have too many friends?” Or how about “No more friends for you!” Well today was my 1st time. One day shy of 38 years of age, I was told I had too many friends and…
Drop It Modern Backdrops {Brianna Graham Style}
I often end up on Brianna Graham’s site as MCP readers will email me questions on how she post processes. And while I only can make guesses, the one time I met her at the Secret Workshop, she was teaching studio work, not her post processing. And even if she did share her knowledge, it…
Halloween Freebies + Win Holiday Templates Prize Pack
Today MCP has partnered with Ashe Designs to bring you 4 fabulous Halloween Templates. Check out their fun template designs. You can download them HERE or on any of the 4 Halloween samples. Then enter a comment on this blog post with what you and/or your family members are dressing as for Halloween. If you…
Lightroom 3 {Beta} Now Available
I twittered and posted to facebook the other day – but in case you missed the announcement, the Lightroom 3 beta program is available to the public. You do not need to own Lightroom. You can download the beta and use it until the product expires. The current Lightroom 3 public beta will expire on…
Confidence: A Crutial Component to Business Success
Joyce Smith, the amazing photographer, writer and owner of WordSmith is here today to share with MCP readers about how confidence plays a huge role in building a successful photography business (or really any business). She is sharing an excerpt from her “How to Sell” guide. Watch the blog tomorrow for a chance to win…
Update on My Confession Earlier Today
Thank you to all those who wrote to me via my Facebook Page and on my blog comment section regarding how I can start to get my life back and get away from my computer “occasionally” to be with family, exercise, or just to take care of myself. I have tried to respond to some…
Confession: When You Realize Something Needs to Change…
One recent morning I woke up and it hit me. I barely have time to do the things I love. I have not been exercising like I use to. I have not talked to friends on the phone. I barely spend time with my husband. My kids ask why I always am on the computer…
Blueprint: A Girl and Her Umbrella
This adorable photo is from Kara Roberts Photography. She wrote, “I have tried and tried to post process this one but they all turn out ICK. She’s just surrounded by green, and even when I do a levels and curves adjustment it just makes the green worse.” So I decided to play with Kara’s photo…
Photoshop Tutorial: Removing Glare on Glasses by Merging 2 Images
Photoshop Tutorial: How to remove glare on glasses in Photoshop – the Take Two Method To expand on yesterday’s post on removing or eliminating glasses glare, I will be showing you the “take 2” method. This method involves taking multiple shots of the subject with and without his or her glasses on. While photographing take…
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