Monday, December 17, 2012

FREE Vignettes and Edge Darkening Presets for Lightroom 4

Matt Kloskowski just posted these free Lightroom 4 presets. These are great for edge darkening in light, medium and strong. He also includes a link on how to install and organize your presets in Lightroom. What a guy!
Download them here:

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

How to Achieve a Clean, Bright Edit

iheartfaces posted this tutorial on how to edit for a clean, bright photo. Sisters Stephanie and Tammy are the photographers behind Luminosity Photography and Design who wrote this great article. They give the settings used on their sample image then describe step by step how they edited it in both Lightroom and Photoshop. They crop, adjust the White Balance, set exposure, contrast and vibrance. then they use the luminance tab to even out the skin tones in Lightroom. Then bring the image into Photoshop for cloning or patching out blemishes. they show how to bring out the eyes, then make the image pop using a curves adjustment layer. 
As a bonus, they also give steps used to create a beautiful black and white edit. 
This tutorial is amazing! 
check it out:

Monday, December 10, 2012

How to Apply Makeup to a Model Using Photoshop

This article was written by Rachael Towne and posted in Lightstalking. She gives a step by step tutorial on how to apply makeup using Adobe Photoshop. She includes an image that you can download and follow along with her adding skin smoothing, contouring, glow, lipstick, eye makeup, eye brightener, eye shadow and darken lashes. Each of these techniques are handy to have and she makes it easy to learn!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

How to Create A Christmas Lights Bokeh Backdrop

I heart faces just posted this great tutorial on how to create a beautiful bokeh backdrop of Christmas lights, written by Amy Boyd of Amy Elizabeth Photography. She describes step by step how to set up and shoot including settings and sample images. This is a great article and just in the nick of time for the holidays!