Photoshop Tips
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Blueprint Fan Share – Outdoor Senior Photograph
Today’s Blueprint was sent in by Charlotte Stringer of Charlotte Stringer Photography. Her steps were as follows: Open in ACR Correct the exposure in Camera Raw Patched out the acne with Patch Tool Used the MCP Eye Doctor photoshop action on the Eyes – Sharped pupils at 35% then ran it over her face at…
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…
Photoshop Editing Quick Tip: Edit Zoomed In & Out at Same Time
Do you ever get frustrated as you are editing in Photoshop when you are doing detailed edits and retouching? Do you wish you could be zoomed in close, but also see the overall effect on the photo? If so, you will love this trick! Just go to WINDOW – NEW WINDOW (for..) and it will…
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…
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