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.
6 Quick Ways to Getting Rid of Glare on Glasses
I usually get 3-5 emails a week asking how people can avoid and/or remove glare on glasses. There are a number of ways to avoid, reduce or eliminate glare. Watch the light and how it affects the glasses while taking the shot. Turn your subject in different directions until the glare disappears. Reposition the subject…
How To Price Portrait Photography To Make Money
This article on “how to price your photography” is one of the MOST POPULAR ever written for the MCP Blog. Once you read this you will see why it has hundreds of comments, thousands of Facebook shares, and sparks interest and controversy. You will also learn how to make more money as a photographer.
Share Your “Bag of Tricks” Examples with MCP
Now that MCP’s Bag of Tricks has been out a week, I would love your thoughts and feedback and the set. Tell me what your favorite actions are from the set. I also invite you to share in two ways. You can post before and after examples (using the Bag of Tricks or any other…
“Fall” by Ellie Friedman
Ellie, one of my 7 year old twins, loves to write. She constantly writes stories and poetry. She dreams of someday being an author. I tell her she already is. She wrote this today and I wanted to share her poem with all of you. “Fall” by Ellie Friedman Cider, apples All day long, Children…
MCP Blueprint – Bye to Blue
This photo was submitted by Kim from My Family’s Circus (www.kimiscircus.blogspot.com) for a Fix It Friday post at I Heart Faces and I wanted to share it here too. Here are the photoshop actions and steps I did to the photo: MCP’s Bag of Tricks Magic Midtone Lifter MCP’s Bag of Tricks Magical Contrast MCP’s…
Posing Tip: Be Aware of Dangling Limbs
One often flattering tip with posing is to angle your subject so that they do not hit the camera straight on and look as broad as possible. When doing this you may want to pay attention to all angles… Here is one that I caught. Before shows 1st try with the model turning quickly to…
6 Ways to Prevent Theft of Images from Your Customers
Have you wondered how you can prevent my clients from printing the digital files I share on my website or blog? I get multiple emails about this every week. Here are 6 ways to prevent theft of your images from your customers plus pros/cons of each. Reduce the resolution and size of the images –…
Quick Photoshop Tip – Layer Order
I am going to start mixing in photoshop quick tips. If you have a quick photoshop tip (or tutorial) you want to share on my blog, please contact me with your ideas or submission. I would love to have you. Layer Order I often get asked “how do I know if I need to flatten…
MCP’s Bag of Tricks is NOW AVAILABLE!
Do you believe in Magic? MCP’s Bag of Tricks for Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4 has more than 25 new actions to make you a believer. These actions along with over an hours worth of video tutorials will help you with color and allow you to perform magic on your images. Reflected Color Cast Vanisher…
Blueprint from Manila in the Philippines
This photo was submitted from Isabel who lives in Manila in the Philippines. The original is shown 1st, the a color edit, and lastly a black and white. Color Version edited in Photoshop: Used Peek-a-Boo action from the MCP Complete Workflow actions Used Color Burst action from the MCP Complete Workflow (painted on the letters…
Coming Monday, October 5th – DON’T MISS OUT!
Are you ready to change the way you retouch color in Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4? Are you ready for color corrected, more vibrant photographs? Are you ready for MCP’s Bag of Tricks? ENTER the MCP’s Bag of Tricks Contest HERE! Come back HERE Monday to learn how you can own this revolutionary set of…
WIN MCP’s Bag of Tricks – before you can buy it!
Want to win MCP’s Bag of Tricks before it is for sale on Monday October 5th? Enter to win: – Leave a comment explaining your favorite thing about MCP Photoshop Actions, the MCP Blog or MCP Workshops (comment must be in the comment section of this post – not on Facebook as these will not…
MCP’S NEWEST ACTION SET – COMING OCTOBER 5th
Start saving up. Normally you “want” actions. This set is different. You “need” MCP’s Bag of Tricks. Details and previews coming this entire week on this revolutionary new action set that took over a year to create. Are your skin tones ever off? Is color correction something you struggle with? Do you ever get color…
7 Rockin Beach Posing Tips
Taking pictures in full sun on the beach can challenge the strongest of photographers. Here are tips to help you pose families and children – and get the best possible images on the beach.
Blueprint: Fan Shares a Before & After of Her Daughter
I got this email and Blueprint submission from Alicia Cerva of A Thousand Words by Alicia. Jodi – I took this picture of my daughter over the weekend, and wanted to share the actions I used from MCP. Thanks for sharing your talents with us! I love your actions. Thanks again! Alicia Here is her…
Angela Monson Answers 10 Reader Questions
Last week I interviewed Angela Monson of Simplicity Photography. To read this interview click here. Readers were allowed to ask questions and Angie picked 10 to answer below. Here are the questions and answers: Susan wrote: Beautiful! I like to post-process a great deal, as well. My question is: Do you post-process every image for…
Changing Colors of an Object in a Picture
In this MCP Blog It Board below, you see that Alyssa is leaning on or peeking through circles and triangles. The metal triangle we found was yellow. The circle red. But for her shots I decided it would be more fun both on a wall and in a collage to mix things up. This is…
When You Use Actions Are You Cheating?
My daughter Jenna (age 7) was just watching me edit some pictures in Photoshop. She looked up at me and asked, “Are using actions in photoshop kind of like… cheating?” I said, “no – they are just a shortcut.” That got me thinking as I so often do when my kids ask me these deep…
Blueprint: Taking Your Old Images and Making Them New Again
Do you ever look back at your images from years ago and think, “wow, I have improved.” Or “I was not as good as I thought…” Well I accidentally went into a folder of images from 4 years ago while looking for something, and I found a photo I remember loving. I thought this was…
FREE Master Photographers’ Marketing Series
What do Dane Sanders, David Ziser, Kevin Kubota, Vicki Taufer, Lori Nordstrom, John Hartman, Kent and Sarah Smith, Rod Evans, Edward Zemba, Sarah Petty, Jen Hillenga, Tim and Beverly Walden, Allison and Jeff Rogers, Kia Boudurant, Julie Klaasmeyer, Marilyn Sholin – all have in common? They are incredible photographers and amazing business minds. To have…
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