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Introducing MCP’s New Website
MCP Actions is proud to announce our NEW Website. Our new blog should be here in the next few days to two weeks too. YAY! New MCP Website features include: * Instant downloads of actions and workshop information (on purchases made after Dec. 17, 2009) * Easy-to-navigate site design * Wish list and compare product…
Blueprint: Add Drama to Your Edits
Sometimes I like to have a bit of drama in my edits. I would say that I add drama by bringing out details and adding contrast simultaneously. For this Blueprint, I wanted to create a really moody effect. Cropped 1st – yes – often you will hear that you should crop last. But rules are…
The Countdown Begins…
The countdown begins… I wish I could tell you exactly when I will “launch.” While I am uncertain, I can tell you that my NEW Website is anywhere from hours to a few days away. I would say at the earliest tomorrow and the latest next week. The sooner the better – but I do…
Back Up Your Photos & Your Actions Too!
My daughter came home from school the other day and had lost her gloves. Wonder if I can go back to Target and ask them for a new pair? I left a phone charger in a hotel room. Maybe AT&T can “give” me a replacement? A hula hoop got left in the snow and cracked,…
MCP Blueprint: A Cowboy Before and After
Here is another edit I did for my role as a contributor at I Heart Faces. This photo was submitted by Jenna Thomas. She felt the photo was a little bright and needed to be toned down a bit and she wished the colors were more vibrant. She also felt like it might be overexposed.…
Blueprint – Subtle Edits for a BIG Impact
Some photos take a lot of editing, while others just need a few quick clicks of the mouse. Here is an edit that was done in about 30 seconds or less. Started by cropping. Then used “All in the Details” Tinted action. Masked detail layer completely off skin. Then used “All in the Details” Flashlight…
Blueprint: Fan Share {Bringing Your Background to Life}
Andrea Lopez is a hobbiest photographer with future aspirations of going pro. She emailed to let me know how much she loves using MCP Photoshop actions and wanted to share this recent image and Blueprint. Blueprint: She edited the photo using the Quickie Collection action set Started with Crackle adjusted the opacity to 25% Then…
Blueprint: Senior Girl in the Fall on the Tracks {Fan Share}
This Blueprint was sent in by April Kuhlmann of Once In Every Life Photography. She wrote: “Fall is gorgeous here in Alabama right now! I took this shot last week late afternoon, out on a rural railroad track while during a Senior Portrait session. A reflector was used in this shot too for light bounce.…
Blueprint: A Mom or a Model? Some Fan Shares
Thank you to Camilla Binks of Camilla Photography for this week’s Blurprints. I asked her the story about the model and these beautiful pictures and here is what she said, “This is my beloved sister, Noel. Isn’t she gorgeous!?!? She is a mother of two with her youngest being just 5 months old. I was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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