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.
Fun Mac Photoshop Stuff from Photojojo
So I have had my “newest” mac for a few weeks now. And I am enjoying it for the most part. I am almost use to the keyboard and command versus control. Certain quirky stuff is still getting to me. I know it is “intuitive” but maybe not to me. Deleting stuff is harder. Yes…
Bridge Workflow: Editing Multiple Photos at Once
So to keep going with Bridge, Daniel Hurtubise is doing another great workflow post. I came back Wednesday from a car racing event with roughly 1500 images taken over 3 days… that’s a lot of work. So here’s how I deal with it: First I will start by “stacking” pictures that will need the same…
Blueprint – close-up of a cute little girl, a natural looking Photoshop edit
Sometimes when I make the blueprints, I tend to go overboard and almost exaggerate the edits so you can see what I did. For this one I wanted to do a super realistic, natural edit. Thank you to Jill Ellison for this adorable picture. This little girl looks so cute with her sweet curls. Here…
Learn how to read your histogram and nail your exposures: part 3
This is part 3 on learning to read your histogram and nail your exposures by John Mireles. Check out part 1 and part 2 if you missed them.
Learn how to read your histogram and nail your exposures: part 2
This is part 2 on learning to read your histogram and nail your exposures by John Mireles. Check out part 1 here if you missed it.
Learn how to read your histogram and nail your exposures: part 1
John Mireles likes to say that there’s not a lot in the photography business that he hasn’t done in his 20 years in the business. He’s shot everything from fashion editorial to big budget advertising shoots to high-end weddings to family portraits as well as a wide range of personal work that runs from nudes…
Using Photoshop for Stunning Beach Photos
Have you ever wondered how to process your beach photos in Photoshop? When I saw this shot by Jennifer Rose Hewes of Jennifer Rose Photography I was in LOVE. These girls and this shot – just stunning. Honestly this is one of those shots that look so pretty straight out of the camera – it…
Shooting Raw is the only way…
According to Jamie Taylor of SouthCape Photography, shooting Raw is not an option. It is a necessity. And while you may feel it is or strongly that it is not, I love her dedication and the way she argues her point below. Enjoy! Camera Raw is an unprocessed, uncompressed raw file. Jpeg is a processed…
Free Photoshop Brushes: 21 Great Places to Download Brushes
Photoshop brushes can be fun and really add to a picture when used artistically. What is better than that? Free Photoshop Brushes! Below is a list to thousands of amazing brushes that you can use to embellish your images, add frames, make backgrounds, and so much more. Check the MCP Blog to find out 10…
10 Exciting Fun Ways to Use BRUSHES in Photoshop
Photoshop Brushes: 10 ways to use them by Stephanie Gill Photoshop brushes seem to leave people with the same lingering question, “What the heck are brushes good for?” Personally, the term “brushes” was confusing to me more than anything else. When I thought of a brush, I thought of the typical paint brush that you…
Where to start editing thousands of pictures from a big trip or on location shoot?
Today Daniel Hurtubise is going to explain his process of getting his images from CF cards to computer after a photo trip or big on location shoot. When you come back from a shooting in location, you usually comeback with a LOT of images. So today I’m going to walk you through my first step…
Where to Begin… My 1 Week Journey Owning a Mac
For those who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have heard bits and pieces of this already. For the rest of you, I thought since we have voting and discussing if I should get Mac or PC, that I should update you on the situation. After all the discussion, even though Mac “won”…
Blueprint – Baby Time – Making a Cute Newborn Even Cuter
If you want better newborn images, take our Online Newborn Photography Workshop. This photo was sent in by Nilofar Walters of Fig Tree Photography in Australia. She wrote me an email that read, “First off thank you for a wonderful and informative blog. I have also bought a couple of your actions and I…
A Depth of Field Lesson from Finger Puppets at a Baseball Game
Many photographers who are just starting out have a hard time grasping and remembering how aperture and depth of field work. I have done a few posts on this before and will continue to as I think of various ways to describe it. While at a Detroit Tigers baseball game, my kids were playing with…
My Photoshop Workflow & and an INCREDIBLE product {Autoloader}
What is my Photoshop workflow? I get emails daily asking about my workflow is and how do I get through my editing. I hear from photographers all the time who say that they spend too much time editing. Today’s video may help change all that for you (at least if you have Photoshop CS3 or…
MCP Collaboration – Free Brushes for Photoshop
I had a brainstorm today… Guests have become a fun part of my blog, mainly because everyone has something valuable to give. So I thought I would start a new concept here at MCP: MCP Collaborations. These will be a FUN way to have all MCP readers help each other. I hope all of you…
Happy 4th of July Weekend!
I hope everyone is having a great weekend. And that my customers in the US are enjoying the Forth of July weekend celebrations. One of my customers sent me this photo, and I just had to share. Precious! Coming up this week… Introducing MCP Collaborations (don’t miss your chance to make a great resource) –…
MCP Blueprint – an iphone 3gs picture edited in Photoshop
I was on a pontoon boat the day I took this shot. I did not bring my camera with me. When my daughter Jenna decided to jump from the boat and swim in the lake for her 1st time, I wanted to document it. I was bummed that I did not lug my camera… Then…
Sunsets and Silhouettes – a blueprint, tutorial and favorites poll
One of my all time favorite things to photograph are sunsets and silhouettes. There is something almost magical about them. Last year I wrote a 2 part tutorial on photographing and editing silhouettes. Part 1 Here * Part 2 Here. I changed camera my settings quite a bit on the ones I took on vacation…
A New and Improved MCP Site and Blog Coming Soon
NEW MCP NEWS: You can now register your your Facebook name and page here. My FB sites are http://facebook.com/mcpactions (friend me) and http://facebook.com/MCPActions/ (FB page). Go get yours today. Not sure which will be done 1st but my blog and site have been works in progress for some time now. Crossing my figures that you…
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