Category Archives: Recipes

Reader Photo Friday – Florabella’s Luxe

Looooove this Photoshop action from the newest Florabella Luxe collection. It’s called London and it’s super sophisticated (and there’s a set for Photoshop Elements, too!): EVERYONE KEEP THOSE SHOTS COMIN. SEND YOUR PHOTOS TO EH@ELIZABETHHALFORD.COM If your photo has been featured on Reader Photo Friday and you would like to purchase...

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A quick before & after {with recipe & video}

{Recipe} Lightroom – One Willow’s Fairytale actions set. I used the action called ‘lavender sky’ Photoshop – Totally Rad action set ‘The Revenge’. I used ‘clareify’ and ‘select-o-sharp’ to paint on sharpness. I used ‘select-o-pop’ to juice up the grass a little

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Reader Photo Friday – Melissa Culvers

So funny. I loved this shot I saw from Melissa recently (can’t remember if it was FB or Flickr or somewhere else). And then she emailed it to me for Reader Photo Friday! I was thrilled to get to work on it. {Recipe} First, I sharpened the edges with MCP’s...

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Reader Photo Friday – 16th July

Really loved the challenge posed by this photo from Heidi and it had a story to go with it. Heidi said: “There is a story that goes along with these pics. I actually scratched my cornea during this shoot on a reedy weed. I had to go to the doctor today and have my pupil...

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Tutsday – How I Shot & Edited it {22nd June}

This past weekend was so bittersweet for us. Our beautiful, dear friend Elaine is fighting for her life against terminal cancer. She is due to start radiation treatments this week and lose her hair. So she decided to lose it on her own terms and have a shearing party to mark the occasion and raise...

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Winner(s) of the Retro Candy competition and the long awaited guest post from One Willow!

Thank you so much for all who entered the One Willow Preset giveaway!   There were so many wonderful entries, it was an incredibly difficult task to choose just one!  Of course my indecisive nature just had to take over as I was trying to decide, so I turned to my dear friend Shana Rae from Florabella...

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A Little Mid-Week B&A {w/recipe}

Just a little sumpthin I was playing with tonight {Recipe} First, I cooked this little beauty with Rebecca Lily’s ‘Beach Vintage’ preset Then I added a dash of Flypaper Textures: ‘Apple Blush’ – Vivid Light @ 24%, masked away from the main bloom Antique Liasons – Normal @ 6%, masked away from the main bloom...

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…then the forest

I can’t believe my luck – I live next to the beach AND the forest! Spring couldn’t have come at a better time (can it ever?) I couldn’t decide what to do with these. I didn’t touch any of the settings and only applied Florabella’s ‘faux’ and ‘mai tai’ (from set II) at ‘overlay’ 100%,...

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