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Every month, it seems like Google is coming out with new products that make our lives easier in some way or another. In this article we break down the must-use Google Tools for photographers.
The “Side Tab” Wordpress plugin is designed to solve this very problem by inserting up to 3 tabs that are affixed to the left side of your website. These tabs use jQuery to slide open when your user hovers his or her mouse over the tab.
Using filters is a great way to differentiate your photography and increase the quality of your photographs. Sticky filters is an excellent, high quality, well thought-out product that allows you use filters without the hassle of attaching Velcro or tape to every one of your flashes.
Karson Photography is located in a little avante-guard artist community called “The Old Village of Park Circle” located about 5 minutes outside of Downtown Charleston S.C. They are both a photography studio and an art gallery.
“The Urban Triplets” is our shot of the month for January 2010. I (Pye) shot this image while in Canton, China shooting a Chinese wedding back in 2008. As many of you know, I speak Cantonese/Mandarin, so I was able to turn my work trip into a vacation as well.
As photographers, we are always looking for ways to spend less time in front of the computer and more time in front of the camera. The fact is that post production is probably the largest portion of a workload in a professional photography studio. So, anything we can do to reduce the time we spend …
Combining meaningful images and with the right song amplifies the story and emotion of photography. This is the power of a wedding slideshow! Some wedding slideshows can be upbeat, happy and fun, while others can be more somber and romantic. But with whatever type of slideshow you choose to create, choosing the perfect song is …
Welcome to Part Three of our three part series on our Photoshop Actions and Automation tutorial series. These tutorials will go through the following:
1) How to Create a Logo Watermark in Photoshop
2) How to Create a Photoshop Watermark Action
3) How to Automate Photoshop Actions in Lightroom (Current Article)
So without any further delay, let’s jump right in to Part Three of our series and finish the last step in fully automating our watermark process.
Welcome to Part Two of our three part series on our Photoshop Actions and Automation tutorial series. These tutorials will go through the following:
1) How to Create a Logo Watermark in Photoshop
2) How to Create a Photoshop Watermark Action (Current Article)
3) How to Automate Photoshop Actions in Lightroom
So without any further delay, let’s jump right in to Part Two of our series and create our Photoshop Action of our watermark.
The image above was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L Welcome to Part One of three on our Photoshop Actions tutorial series. These tutorials will go through the following: 1) How to Create a Photography Logo Watermark in Adobe Photoshop (Current Article) 2) How to Create an Adobe Photoshop Watermark Action …
UPDATE – Check out the new Ultimate Photoshop Texturing Video Tutorial which contains all of the techniques from this article, working files, and more! Many of you have asked us to put up an article on how to texture photos. The fact is, that there are many articles on the web that show you how …
Your landing page is not only the first thing clients see, it is also the first thing search engines see! It is crucial to create a landing page that not only looks great, but is also well equipped and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) prepped.
This is the first entry of a three part blog series on creating your own SEO ready CSS landing/portal page using our templates. Each entry in this series will get a little deeper in functionality and SEO allowing you to have more portal buttons and more text. To see the “Photo Stack” template in actionclick here.
So, for those of you that just want a simple, customizable one button, SEO ready portal page, then simply download the files, do a tiny bit of simple editing completing steps 1 – 5, and you are good to go. While this article may seem long, the estimated time to complete steps 1 -5 for a complete beginner is less than 1 hour. So you have no excuse!
However, for those that are interested, these tutorials will also go one step further to help all of you DIY photographers out there learn a bit more about web design, CSS, and HTML coding and most importantly SEO (steps 6 – 9). Good news, though, it is really much more simple than it looks and sounds. So, without any further adieu, let’s jump right in.
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