I got inspired by Amy’s recent post at Shooting The Kids about clearing the unwanted clutter out of the background of photographs. Using the Clone Stamp in Photoshop is super easy and I used it this morning to eliminate an unwanted sidewalk. I like this picture because Chloe seems so pensive, and [...]

I am not an amazing photographer by any means, but I have learned some cool tricks along the way to make many of my photos much more interesting and much less full of distracting clutter. Photoshop has become one of my great friends in photography. And yes, I know in the age of digital [...]

Amy at happythings has gone and inspired me again with amazing color and some fun tricks with Photoshop. When I saw the photos she had doctored in Photoshop, I just had to try this myself. And let me just say, this is so easy and so addicting — choosing (and limiting) which photos to [...]

The Daughter is teething and generally miserable, so I took her out on a drive to take her mind off things. On our way up the road we passed this old carwash with one of those sweet multicolored structural signs that covers the whole of the building. Then it hit me – why [...]

I’m a Photoshop CS user, and so I’m used to having more power than I know what to do with in my image-editing software. I love CS and couldn’t imagine doing my work without it. That said, there are some things about every professional edition of Photoshop that drive me crazy – like [...]