From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Fix-it Friday #80 | Andrea Riley’s Tutorial

I love all the touches to this photo…the vintage red hair piece, the detailed cream frame, the golden sun behind the girls…the challenge for me was to highlight all of these important pieces which required juggling the light in the photo. Since this photo is backlit, there isn’t a whole lot of light on the [...]

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Fix-It Friday #80 | Susan Keller’s Tutorial

Written by: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography Software Used: Lightroom 3.1 (LR) & Photoshop CS3 (PS) Actions/Presets/Textures Used: Totally Rad (TRA), Red Leaf Studio (RLS), Shana Rae Florabella Textures Set II (FB), Oh my gosh. I love this picture. Just like it is. This is one that I would only lightly edit in Lightroom [...]

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Fix It Friday #80 | Julie Rivera’s Tutorial

You know what I love about Fix It Friday? Seeing the SOOC images from photographers I truly admire…and even though the images haven’t been given the photographer’s “signature” editing treatment, I can still see the photographer in the image. Obviously, this is Jessica’s work. Her beautiful, dreamy presets are made for this type of shot, [...]

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Fix-It Friday #79 | Michelle Johnson’s Tutorial

This was sure a fun fix this week! I had the pleasure of meeting this little sweetheart and she’s every bit as sweet as her momma! I really wanted to bring the focus to her beautiful face so I cropped in a lot. 1. First, I started off with my basic Levels Adjustment Layer. I [...]

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Fix It Friday #79 | Julie Rivera’s Tutorial

My golly, how cute is Dana’s little girl?! I think my daughter would be over the moon to have such fancy pants (and long hair…)! Technically, this picture is perfect: nice clarity, excellent focus on her eyes, shallower depth of field. Really, the only things I need to do are bring a bit more pizazz [...]

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Fix It Friday #79 | Susan Keller’s Tutorial

Written by: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography Software Used: Lightroom 3.1 (LR) & Photoshop CS3 (PS) Actions/Presets/Textures Used: One Willow Presets (OW), Shadowhouse Creations (SC) Oh. My. Goodness. Dana, your daughter could NOT be any more adorable! And she’s lucky to be blessed to have a Mama who knows how to do cute girl-hair!! [...]

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Fix It Friday #78 | Andrea Riley’s Tutorial

When a boy is wearing tie-dye, you gotta go bold with those colors! :) 1. My first step was to pull the photo into the RAW editor and make slight adjustments. 2. I ran Noiseware with the following settings: 3. I used the healing brush/clone tool on the blown spot on the shirt. I may [...]

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Fix It Friday #78 | Susan Keller’s Tutorial

Written by: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography Software Used: Lightroom 2.4 (LR) Actions/Presets/Textures Used: One Willow Presets (OW) My Baby. Two years ago. sigh. Anywhoo, technically, the main problem with this photo is underexposure and the noise that results. Some might argue that my composition is flawed, but I kinda like it. Call it [...]

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