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Composition – A Modern Twist

Guest blogger Michelle Moore takes on a topic that doesn’t get discussed as often as it should: Composition. If you’re not familiar with Michelle’s work we suggest you check out her Photo Profile along with her perpetually insightful post on working with Natural Light. This girl has serious talent! Luckily for us all, Michelle is also good on [...]

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Yield the Wheel – A Lightroom mouse trick

First, a few words about input devices There are a multitude of ways to interface your hands with Lightroom: Mouse, Tablet, Touchpad, RPG Keys – all good ways to get your nerve impulses into Lightroom to do your handy work! When we’re dialing in a specific batch of images – diving head first into the Develop Module, [...]

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Lightroom Speed Tips – Fast, Fun, Easy

We were discussing some of our favorite Lightroom tips with some fellow photographers this weekend and we were reminded of our Tip ‘O The Week series we tucked away in the X=101 Category. Rather than keep things as a bunch of mini-posts, and in the spirit of making things EASIER for everyone to access and reference [...]

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Film to Digital – Scanning Essentials 101 – Part 2 of 2

Last time we briefly covered scanning photos in such a way that will produce great results when performing further editing in Lightroom.  Today we are going to look at the process of working with these scanned files in Lightroom, laying out my personal workflow and some tips that I have discovered over the past few [...]

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Film to Digital – Scanning Essentials 101 – Part 1 of 2

If you’re like me, you probably have a few shoe boxes full of old negatives from the days before digital.  Well, if you are like me, you probably have a shoebox full of negatives from last month. Whichever your situation may be, you probably would like to get those old images digitized for print or web.  [...]

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Fixing Perspective in Photoshop – It’s Easy!

This workflow is by far the shortest and easiest path to fixing the Leaning Tower of Pisa effect that often happens when shooting architectural photos without fancy equipment like a View Camera or a Tilt Shift Lens. Let’s start out by by looking at our final image: Check out those nice sweet STRAIGHT lines! But we didn’t [...]

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We don’t need no stinking Photoshop – Retouching 101

I’m constantly on the search for the smoothest and quickest way to process images. That’s it, nothing fancy about it. I like speed, accuracy, and quality. Can they all be wrapped into one workflow that can take care of the majority of my shoots? – I certainly think so! This little gem of a workflow has been in [...]

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Expand your Universe – Dual Monitors

For an overview of how we’re leveraging dual monitors in our Lightroom workflow, head on over to the Digital Photography School. We’ve uncovered the parts that matter, along with some best practices for using the Loupe View to put your workflow on steroids and improve your productivity by 25% or more! |Brandon Oelling x=photography+consulting – image+workflow+technology+business

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Can I get a little background?

We’ve received quite a few emails asking us how we created and implemented our custom Twitter background on our profile page. It’s actually very easy so here’s a quick tutorial to help send you on your way to custom Twitter beautification: {hint: at the bottom of this post is a link to download our twitter background template [...]

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Twitter 101 – for Photographers

Back in April of this year I created a Twitter account – but it didn’t come easily! I had sat on the sidelines for a long time wondering what kind of real substance could come out of a service that only allows 140 characters per post. I even perused the Twitter FAQ more than few times [...]

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