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How to Capture Holiday Light Bokeh

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Beautiful seasonal photos are taking over the web this month…the holidays are upon us, and one of the best things about photographing the season is the built-in bokeh inside or outside your own house. Bokeh can be defined in many ways, but for the sake of this tutorial, we’re learning about the festive circles of [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial | How to Make Beautiful Black & White Photos

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Black and white photos are great because you can enhance what you love about the photo and hide what you don’t.  In today’s tutorial, you will learn how Lightroom makes it easy and fun to create striking black and white images. Here’s my example:

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3 Tips for a Successful Cake Smash Session

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Written by: Jessica Dunn Cake smash photography has become a big hit and I want to share some helpful hints about not only helping parents get those photos that they dream about, but also how to make it enjoyable for baby as well. My first introduction into cake smash photography came when I wanted to [...]

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Photo Editing Fun | Fix It Friday #85

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It’s Fix-It Friday, a weekly event where our contributors edit the same photo and our participants can join the fun by editing that same photo their own way and linking into the party! We have received many requests for more “difficult” photos to fix up so today we’ll be using a cute shot that Julie [...]

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How To Add a Watermark in Lightroom

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I know the vast majority of you use Photoshop, but there are a few of us who also use Lightroom. So over the course of 2011, I’m going to work on creating a few tutorials especially for Lightroom users. Now, if you have created your watermark {using this tutorial}, you might be wondering how to [...]

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Photo Editing Fun | Fix It Friday #83

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Pondering Lightroom vs. Photoshop

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Written by: Susan Keller I’m often asked, “Lightroom OR Photoshop?” I invariably answer, “BOTH!” Both of these amazing pieces of software are part of my daily photographic life. Here’s how my personal usage of each breaks down:

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Photo Editing Fun | Fix It Friday #82

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It’s Fix-It Friday, a weekly event where our contributors edit the same photo and our participants can join the fun by editing that same photo their own way and linking into the party! Today we’ll be using a photo that Rachel Durik captured during our recent Dream Big Photography Workshop in Dallas. {Edit above by Susan Keller.}

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