written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com Hey all! It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I have had a busy few months and needed to take a little break, but I am back! I hope you will enjoy my new posts! Today I am doing an action edit using “Olympia” from the Everyday Elements Road Trip […]
Newborn Photography Quick Tips & Tricks
August 7, 2013 by 5 Comments
Do you see all those adorable newborn pictures and want to give newborn photography a try? Here are some quick tips for working with newborns, plus links to past tutorials on photographing and editing newborn pictures. A few newborn photography tips: Get the space REALLY warm and keep it really quiet Use blankets that do […]
Action Edit using Carson City B&W
May 8, 2013 by 4 Comments
written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com It’s been a little while since I’ve done an action edit. And I haven’t had a chance to try out the updated “City Lights” B&W set from Amanda! There were a few new actions added into that set. For this edit I chose ‘Carson City’. The first thing […]
Action edit using “Virginia” and “Make Matte”
March 20, 2013 by 2 Comments
written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com It’s been a little while since I’ve done a post with an action edit. Today I chose to use “Virginia” and Amanda’s new “Make Matte”. In this post, I’ll tell you how I got from my SOOC image to my final edit! I first ran Deep Clean 1 & 2, […]
Action Edit using “Jackson”
January 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com I love actions! They make processing images a lot of fun! They are each created to be so unique and give certain looks to images! For this image I chose to use “Jackson” from the Everyday Elements “Coast to Coast” action set. This action has a warm and contrasty look […]
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 […]
Celebrating Facebook Milestone
April 29, 2012 by 20 Comments
10,000 Facebook Likes – Oh. My. Goodness. No one could be more surprised than me that Everyday Elements has reached over 10,000 likes on Facebook! I started EE in late May of 2010, and created the Facebook page for it in early June. I really didn’t think many people would be interested in following and […]
Levels to the Rescue…
March 16, 2012 by 10 Comments
Pin It Yes, I am once again talking about Levels. Why? Well, first of all because I l.o.v.e. Levels and second of all because it’s a message that cannot be shared enough. Just so we are all on the same page: I start every single edit (in PSE or Photoshop) with a Levels adjustment. Levels […]
Step by Step Clean Edit Tutorial {with picture for practice}
January 27, 2012 by 4 Comments
Rock the Shot, a wonderful photography forum, has asked me back again to provide a lesson on clean editing. I decided to teach a few of the ways Levels can be a blessing to your workflow, and five of the seven edits are done with just Levels! To see the tutorial, with video, and download […]
Clean Edit Steps for Newborn Pictures
November 21, 2011 by 18 Comments
Pin It I have done a few different “clean edit” tutorials but those were always older children or adults. Often questions are left at the blog or Facebook page about editing newborns, so I thought I would dedicate a post to those precious edits. Note – this edit is going to skip the exposure/contrast/white balance […]
