From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Fix-It Friday #46 – Dana Suggs’s Contribution

Written by: Dana Suggs from From Chaos To Grace First thing I did was use my healing brush to clear any baby blemishes, food, rashes, scratches, etc, that all babies seem to have. LOL It’s a curse really….they can’t possibly be entirely perfect or the world would implode. Law of physics-cuteness. Then I went into [...]

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Fix-It Friday #46 – Andrea Riley’s Contribution

Written by: Andrea Riley from Happy Chaos The major problem I saw with this photo was the area of overexposure to the left. With the light coming from this direction, the unfortunate result is lack of light to the eyes. Eyes are everything in a photo, so I wanted to change this picture to have [...]

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Fix-It Friday #46 – Susan Keller’s Contribution

Written by: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography Software Used: Lightroom 2.4 (LR), Photoshop CS3 (PS) & Fotofusion (FF)Actions/Presets/Textures Used: Totally Rad (TRA), Pioneer Woman (PW) 1. In LR, crop and rotate.2. TRA Crystal Ship Strong preset.3. In PS: duplicate background; clone out dirt spots on face & dodge eyes to brighten.4. PW Bring on [...]

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Fix-It Friday #46 – Julie Rivera’s Contribution

Written By: Julie Rivera of Julie Rivera Photography It is not easy to work in full sun. In fact, I am hesitant to do it myself out of a lack of experience that generally results in badly overexposed, squinty eyed pictures. But this shot really managed to avoid a good bit of the direct sun [...]

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Fix-It Friday #46 – Michelle Johnson’s Contribution

Written by: Michelle Johnson from My Two Seasons What a sweet photo we got to work on this week! I’m always one that loves to just go with the flow and if it’s a sunny day, I make it work for me! It’s sometimes hard to get perfect exposure in full sun, but Sarah did [...]

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Fix-It Friday #45 – Jodi Friedman’s Contribution

Written by: Jodi Friedman from MCP Actions When shooting on a bright day with the sky behind the subject, if you do not have a flash or reflector, it is hard for your camera to balance the exposure properly. I worked on this photo exclusively in Photoshop CS4 using the MCP Actions Bag of Tricks [...]

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Fix-It Friday #45 – Rachel Durik’s Contribution

Written by: Rachel Durik from Savor Photography Love this photo! I love big, blue skies and her expression is priceless. Before: I’m working with Photoshop CS3 and I use TRA actions, the first and second sets. To begin with, I adjusted the levels (ctrl+L on a PC) and the color balance (crtl +B). Then I [...]

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Fix-It Friday #45 – Julie Rivera’s Contribution

Written by: Julie Rivera of Julie Rivera Photography What a great picture with that blue sky and sweet face! But we do have some exposure issues. In an effort to brighten the girl’s face, we can easily lose the bright blue of that incredible sky. So let’s see what we can do… Using: Photoshop CS3 [...]

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