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Andrea Riley

How To Use a DSLR Camera Like A Pro Photographer

  Were you lucky enough to get a new camera? Did your dreams of professional quality photos dancing in your head get slightly dashed when the photos you took with your new camera didn’t look much different then the ones you were taking with your cell phone?  (Hopefully it wasn’t that bad!)   Fortunately, there [...]

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Batch Editing A Cake Smash Photography Session

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This is the second tutorial in Andrea Riley’s Cake Smash Session series. You can read the first tutorial here: Tips for a Successful Cake Smash Session This week she is teaching how to batch edit the cake smash session photos to achieve a cohesive group of images that will work great together in a storyboard [...]

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Tips For A Successful Cake Smash Session

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This is the first installment in a two-week series about Cake Smash photography sessions by I Heart Faces Contributor, Andrea Riley.  Follow along as Andrea shares how planning ahead can really help you have a great cake smash session.  Read Part II of her series here: How To Edit A Cake Smash Photography Session Quickly [...]

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{Before & After} Photoshop Elements Tutorial

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Follow along in this photo editing tutorial as Andrea Riley, I Heart Faces Creative Team Member, shows you a step by step edit done in Photoshop Elements. Although I primarily work with Photoshop CS5, I started learning to edit with Photoshop Elements.  I thought it would be a fun challenge to edit this photo of [...]

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Fix-It Friday #99 | Hands-On Photo Editing Fun!

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Welcome to Fix-It Friday where anyone can join in the photo editing fun by downloading a photo we provide and showing off how you would “fix” it! We have been running our Fix-It Friday feature in our FREE photography community for quite some time now (you can read more about why we do this) but [...]

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Creating a Blurry Background with a Kit Lens

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Written by: Drew from Happy Chaos The other day, I got to thinking back to when I was a brand new photographer with only my Rebel, an 18-55 kit lens and the zeal to capture beautiful photos.  I started noticing this really cool “effect” that professional photographers achieved…a blurry background.  No matter how hard I [...]

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Interview with I Heart Faces Contributor, Andrea Riley

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It’s so fun to welcome our very own I Heart Faces contributor, Andrea Riley, as our Guest Photographer Judge this week.  Andrea has been a contributor for us almost since the first day I Heart Faces came to be, she is our resident Photoshop Elements Expert and is also Angie’s baby sister (who is the [...]

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Tutorial: “Changing Your Blogger Template”

Written by: Andrea Riley I Heart Faces Contributor and author of Happy Chaos I’m assuming that since you’re here at this site, you probably have an interest in photography. Not only that, but many of you also have a blog. If you’re like me, your very first blog utilized one of the many templates offered [...]

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