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This week’s photoshop tip is brought to you by Jan (father of this not so little anymore baby), who asked me to talk about the vignetting I use on 99.8% of our pics.

First of all, to the sticklers out there, I apologize for calling it vignetting. Actual vignetting is a lightening as the picture...

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Here’s the final edited picture that I’m using today (from a Colorado Springs high school senior portrait shoot–thanks Ashleigh for being the model today)!

Here is the SOOC version (stands for “straight out of camera” with no adjustments):

The healing brush in Photoshop is often turned to when skin correction is needed. However, I sort of hate...

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This morning as I was trying to create a unsharp mask versus high pass sharpening comparison picture, I really wasn’t seeing much of a difference. I set about researching it, and it turns out that unsharp mask is basically a high pass filter. Same effect, just two different ways.
Which proves one more time...

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(Photoshop Friday and Scrapbook Saturday are a day late this week thanks to BOTH my blog AND Photoshop wigging out on me yesterday.)
Whenever you are about to print a photo or share it online, one of your last steps should be to sharpen it. Whenever you resize your photo–either making it larger OR smaller–you’ll...

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(There are days when I want to make out with Scott Kelby for making my life better. This is one of those days. [I'm going to be really humiliated if he ever vanity-googles his name and discovers this post.])
I was reading his Lightroom book last night and read the following tip, which I...

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