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Michelle Johnson

4 Tips to Help You Love Your Camera’s Kit Lens

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Most Canon or Nikon DSLR cameras come with a lens that is called the “kit lens.”  Enjoy these tips  that will help you fall in love with using it to it’s fullest potential!

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Tinted Black and White Effect using Gradient Map

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I love a good black and white photo! How about you? There are so many different methods of creating black and white conversions. This week I am going to show you a fun way to create a tinted black and white effect. I’ve done the screenshots for Photoshop Elements, but these steps work exactly the [...]

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4 Easy Steps to Prepare Your Photos for Web Viewing

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Have ever finished editing a photo, looked at it and thought “This looks so awesome! I’m in awe of my mad Photoshop skillz!” only to be ridiculously deflated after you upload it to your blog or favorite forum? Yeah. Been there done that… a lot! Ok, well maybe not the whole gloating over my mad [...]

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How to Adjust Solid Color in Photoshop Elements

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Tutorial By: Michelle Johnson from My Two Seasons The Solid Color Adjustment Layer is a versatile tool to create a variety of different effects for your photos. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use solid color to manipulate the tones in shadows, and then add in some vintage haze using the Levels Adjustment. [...]

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How to Get a Vintage Look in 5 Simple Steps!

Written by Michelle Johnson from My Two Seasons Description: Give your photos a little makeover with a vintage twist! By using a few adjustments layers and blending modes, you can have that vintage look in minutes! Tutorial Details: Program: Photoshop CS3 Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes Let’s Get Started! Step One – Open up your [...]

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

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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 #72 – Michelle Johnson’s Tutorial

This is such a touching photo from Julie Rivera this week. A tender moment between father and daughter before he leaves for deployment. I really wanted to keep the emotion in the photo and just enhance it a little bit. 1. I wanted to lighten and brighten the photo first, to bring the focus into [...]

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Fix it Friday #66 – Michelle Johnson’s Contribution

What a cutie this week! Wow, those eyes are just stunning! I absolutely loved the vibrant colors in this photo so I decided to do a clean edit this time. It was super easy and took me less than 3 minutes to do! 1. First I cropped to a portrait orientation. Hey, look! I’m getting [...]

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