Photoshop Actions
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Looking for examples for an Upcoming Action Set
Yes, my last action set came out in February. Yes, it has been a long time. And yes, I am due. Or maybe long overdue. Well you will need to wait a little longer. But a set that has been in the works for over a year is nearing completion. Seriously, you will LOVE it. …
Blueprint: Newborn in Color and Black & White
Do you prefer babies in color or black and white? I would love your opinions on this image and which you prefer for this image from Jen Baker. For this week’s blueprint, I did the following edits: Color Edit 1st curves adjustment layer – lifted midtones 1.5 boxes (with extra grid on) – masked…
Photoshop Actions: A Video Tutorial on How to Install & Use
Photoshop actions… Have you ever wondered “what is a Photoshop action?” Or how Photoshop actions can help you speed up your workflow? This video tutorial will teach you how to install and use them . If you are new to Photoshop or to installing or using Photoshop actions, you may be lost once you download…
Blueprint: Fan Share – Newborn Skin Edit
One of my customers, Stacy Rottach, sent me the following letter and the blueprint below. What a beautiful baby. Love her edit here. And those eyes – wow! If you have thoughts for her, I am sure she would love to hear from you in the comments too. Hi Jodi! I was just doing a…
MCP Blueprint – Fixing Skin Issues on a Young Boy
This photo was sent to me from I Heart Faces website for their Fix It Friday Segment last week. The photographer was Amy of muddy boots blog. This little boy is so sweet, but the photo had poor composition, chopped fingers, and a skin problem. The parent wanted the skin issues to vanish. Below is…
Blueprint – MCP Fan Share of a Cute Little Boy
One of my customers, of both my Photoshop actions and training, asked me if she could share a photo from when she was just starting out. It was a favorite of hers and she wanted to see what she could do with it now that she knows more about Photoshop. Why not? This shot was…
Before and After from Alisha Robertson – Newborn Photographer
Alisha Robertson of AGR Photography, a phenomenal newborn photographer, and occasional guest blogger here, recently attended the MCP Color Fixing Workshop. Her work is outstanding but she knew that occasionally she would have an off shot that needed color work. After attending the online group training, here is what she had to say… So normally…
Photographing a Shy Child ~ How to Get Them To Interact
How you ever had to take pictures of a shy child? This little girl, Isabel, was just adorable. Who would believe she was super shy? She was… Photographing a shy child can be a challenge. Having props, tools, and a gift for conversation, can help get a shy child to open up. So in this…
Blueprint of a Surfing Senior – Photoshop Actions Save the Waves
This guy wanted a hip, fun senior photograph. And thanks to Dan Treviño of Shooting Star Photography, he is getting one. Unfortunately the lighting was less than ideal and the original photo was kind of gray (the water, the sky, and the subject). When he sent this in, I knew just the blueprint formula to…
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…
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