Photoshop
MCP Collaboration: Free Photoshop Textures
This my my second MCP Collaboration. This time we are going to compile links to some great free texture resources. I hope all of you will participate! Here is how it will work. We will brainstorm a list together of some amazing sites and links to free textures that can be used in Photoshop. Then…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
Interview with the Amazing Angela Monson of Simplicity Photography
I had the privilege of interviewing Angie Monson of Simplicity Photography last week and am excited to share some of her story with you. Angie’s work speaks for itself. And I often get asked from my readers how they can recreate her look. Angie has offered to do a question and answer session as well.…
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