Had a question recently from a member who needed some help with cropping their images. While it may be second nature to many of you there are numerous options to consider so I created a short video. If you have questions by all means let me know. We’ll also add this to the Photoshop Lessons [...]
Valentine Photo Contest – Win an Amazon Kindle I am really pumped about this! It is going to be awesome fun. Starting at noon CST, Thursday, February 9th, 2012 on the The Portrait Expert Facebook page; THE PORTRAIT EXPERT we’re hosting our first photo contest. It has a Valentine’s Day theme. Create an image that [...]
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. Don’t make the same mistake Alice made. In this [...]
Today I’m including two short videos on how to customize any of the card templates you might buy from the new Portrait Expert template page. Go here to check it out: CARD TEMPLATES The first video is basic customization of the invites and the second one details how to create your own custom school logos for your [...]
Last week I made a couple of video blog posts about adjusting your exposures in Lightroom and then checking them utilizing the Facemask Histogram. I received emails from several members asking if I would do a video on adjusting exposures on darker skinned subjects. Quite honestly I don’t have much experience with this so this [...]
The other day I made a blog post about understanding the histogram – on your camera and in Photoshop. A member wrote to ask if this information was similar to something I’d published somewhere about adjusting exposures in Lightroom. So here’s another video that covers this topic in more detail. In the video I show [...]
Years ago when I first went digital I had a love/hate relationship Will Crockett. At the time Will was teaching a technique he referred to as the Facemask Histogram – a method through which you could determine if the “mask of the face” of your portrait subject was properly exposed. It is a great and [...]