PRIME focus on you 2013

October 2, 2013 by 1 Comment

written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com Last month was the Prime: Focus on You photography/business workshop. If you weren’t there, let me just say that I think you missed out on an amazing weekend of learning and networking! We had four leaders this year; Amanda of Everyday Elements, Jill of Jill Jarvis Photography, Kelly of kellynewbury.com, […]

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InstaClean Action Tutorial

January 8, 2013 by 4 Comments

In April of last year (2012) I celebrated a milestone on Facebook by giving away a free cleaning action – InstaClean. I never had time to do a tutorial for it, so everyone just had to wing it, so here is the long overdue tutorial. (Thank you for your patience). First let me state – […]

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Action edit using “New York City” B&W action

December 26, 2012 by 4 Comments

written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com Everyone loves a good black & white! I’m going to show you how I go from a SOOC image (straight-out-of-camera) to a beautiful black & white using the “New York City” action from the Everyday Elements “City Lights B&W” action set. I don’t normally crop my images (I like to […]

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How to Brighten Shadows in Photoshop Elements

October 1, 2012 by 4 Comments

A recent question I was asked on Facebook was how to brighten shadows in a picture. I thought that would make for a great blog tutorial, so here we go! I am tackling the shadow issue from two directions – a jpg image and a raw image. JPG Images: As always with Photoshop and Photoshop […]

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Enhancing Eye Color in Photoshop {Elements}

July 10, 2012 by 6 Comments

Ever take a picture of someone who has beautiful blue or green eyes, yet when you look at the picture in Photoshop or Elements, the eyes seem a little dreary and lacking the color they have in real life? Today I am going to show you how one adjustment layer in Photoshop or PSE can […]

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