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Last year I promised that I would figure out how to better use my camera at night. Sigh. Thank goodness we're stationed in Germany another three years, because a whole year later and I'mm still having issues taking night photo's. [...]
And that's it. De Oma & De Opa are gone. They left late this morning, on the way to their next stop in Holland to see my Oma, de Oma's mother. I'm bribing Dane with my secret stash of Yu-Gi-Oh [...]
I'd been hoping for weeks that we could make a trip up to Holland and see my Oma. There are so many things that must fall exactly right for us to go. Most important, the van must drive. Dave's back [...]
We are in week 5 of strep, colds & viruses at my house. There has been someone home sick keeping me company for weeks. As much as I love my family, I'm going a little stir crazy. Thankfully my husband [...]
This LAD, Layout-a-Day, has some of the most perfect elements for blending! I'm already a huge fan of photoshop, and photoshop elements, Blend Modes, and the Stormy Skies mini's are providing me with the perfect opportunity to use different Blend [...]
I used elements from the free daily mini of the LAD: Highlights - 11 Jan 2024 by: Synanu Design, Aimee Harrison and Keep in Touch Designs. You can still get this mini free on a make-up Sunday this January. I've [...]
Photo's taken at golden hour are widely regarded as being the most beautiful photo's. But what if you just missed that golden hour? And you are in a once-in-a-lifetime moment? What then? Then, Lightroom to the rescue! Follow along and [...]
Hello Memory Keepers! Welcome to another DUO Element tutorials. These are read-along, follow-along on the blog and there's the exact same tutorial up on our YouTube. We've had a couple of these, so I'll skip some of the skills in [...]
If you've been reading me, you know. I'm all about the quick tricks tips! Today we are going to use the exact same photo multiple times in a Filmstrip! Simply duplicate, move the photo left/right or up/down and TaDa! A [...]
I'm still playing a little bit of catch-up on the blog here. It's been more than a year since I've been truly active. It was also more than a year sincee I could truly eat (read more in my Personal [...]
Please welcome to the Studio: our new designer Jen from J. Conlon and Sons Join us and get to know her a bit better in her own words and photos: 1. Tell us a little about yourself I grew up [...]
I was born with an inability to eat. My parents baptized me on the third day, it was looking grim. That night I finally started to nurse. My mom breathed a huge sigh of relief. That was just the beginning. [...]
Today we are going to fake a bokeh background. At it's core, bokeh means blurred. Technically it means the aesthetic of the blurring of light in a photograph. We are going to focus on the simplest of it's meaning and [...]
I love color. Color just makes me smile. But sometimes I like the simplicity of a black & white photo. The absence of color lets me focus on the details, I'm not overwhelmed by all the color. I love this [...]
A little shout-out to our forum member Liz, she's posted a photo with catchlights that was just fantastic! Today's tutorial is to help the rest of us get those same results using Adobe Lightroom. If you are new to this [...]
The darkest hour is just before the dawn That quote is attributed to lots of people, with lots of teeny-tiny variations. It resonates with me. These last two years have been hard. The pandemic has been hard. Lockdown has been [...]
A couple of months ago I wrote a popular tutorial on How to Glyph. There were questions. One of the main questions was how-to glyph in not-Photoshop. Obviously I'm not a whiz in all the programs, but there is a [...]
Sometimes the chaos outside our homes is paralyzing. Sometimes that's just me. This time it's the entire world. We are all in chaos. The war in Ukraine is the final drop in a bucket already overflowing. I, we, the Studio, [...]
It's time for an updated Black & White Action... and how I got there. I wound up doing two slightly different versions of the same action. The first is primarily for urban or craggy landscrapes. The second is a softer, [...]
