Category Archives: Editing & Tutorials

Freebie Thursday – Soulful Sweetness Actions

These beautiful, sweet and subtle actions are from Isabelle Lafrance. When I tried them for myself, I discovered that she’s done something clever: part of the action is that it duplicates your image so the action leaves your original intact and creates a new one. Then you can continue and try all the actions and...

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Reader Question Wednesday – Watermark Layers

This question came from Michelle:
Q. “Can you make a layer for a watermark in PSE so you don’t have to do the text box everytime on every picture? And if so how?”
Hi Michelle thanks for a great question! Yes, of course you can and it’s super easy!
1.} Open PSE and file > new using the...

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18 Different B&Ws to Compare

I got the itch to do this and now I’m googly-eyed from looking at so many different shades of grey for an hour!
IMAGE RESOLUTION REDUCED FOR QUICKER LOADING. ALL THE PRESETS AND ACTIONS ARE ADJUSTABLE ALTHOUGH I DIDN’T ADJUST THEM FOR ANY OF THESE IMAGES.
{First the Lightroom presets}
1.} Coffeeshop’s FREE LR presets called ‘CoffeeBar’
2.}...

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How I did it Tutsday – 9th March {no presets. no actions. just plain old elbow grease}

As promised, this is how I took and edited the following photo. Not using any fancy schmancy plugins, just some good old fashioned do-it-myself elbow grease.

{How I took it}
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 18-200mm
Data: 200mm, f/6.3, 1/400th second {these are the settings I was using on the boys, not necessarily what I would’ve chosen if I had...

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My Amazing New Gizmo {goodbye pop-up flash!}

Arrrrgh I can hardly contain my excitement! This week, I got my very own pair of Professor Kobre’s Lightscoops and they – seriously – have changed.my.life. Even with all the tricks up my sleeve, I still avoid taking pictures inside. ESPECIALLY in the house. I just can’t be bothered with all the work of taking...

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