I know it’s been a little while since I’ve REALLY blogged about anything on here, BUT, like I said in my last couple of posts, there just hasn’t been any time. I needed to focus on getting my whole family, including myself, back to healthy again AND I needed to do a lot of catching...
AHHH!!! Caroline!! She looks awesome 
I love her…totally classy and gorgeous. You should do a 30ish inspired shoot! Like John Dilinger kinda times…thats what this reminds me of. Fur coats and sleek sexy dresses and fabulous makeup and pinned up curls! CLASS! Bravo
the cinnamon toast did the trick, love that sweet coloring. very cool.
WOW… i am a new follower!! You seem SO COOL!
Yin Yang? is that part of the TRA package?
Thank you guys! Robyn, you are too funny. Thank you! Kristy Ann, yes it is!
Gorgeous, as usual. Just for curiosity’s sake though, I’d love to see a comparison of your final and another one with a little less Cinnamon Toast on her coat.
This is a great photo! I just stumbled across your site and it is great! Thanks so much for the recipes, they are so helpful. Is the TRA package part of Photoshop CS4 or is it a different software? I do photography on the side as I am a school teacher and mommy full-time. I’m looking to purchase Photoshop CS4 and I’m wondering if all these tools mentioned are in the regular CS4 package or should I purchase something additionally? Thanks so much for your help!
So I’ve got kind of a special treat today (if you would call it that). I’ve been spending a lot of January and February working on some behind the scenes & business stuff, with no weddings and sessions at a minimum. I just really need to prepare for what’s happening starting March, where I will...
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What did you do to lighten her skin?
Great job, btw :]
Hi Damaris! Yes, I used TRA’s “Yin/Yang” tool to lighten their skin. It’s a few pictures down from the top, and I wrote it there in case you wanted to see which picture was associated with that
I must’ve missed it. Thanks
Thank you! I have “mental noted” to myself several times that I would LOVE to go back and edit a few images from my first couple of weddings! I might just have to do that now! The only thing that confuses me when you are editing, is how do you add an action to only part of the image. Like the skin, or the floor??? Thanks! ~Karla
Hi Karla! With Rad Actions, when you select “Green with Envy, for example, it automatically chooses the paintbrush tool in Photoshop for you. So you use this paint brush tool and paint in the image where you wish to apply “Green with Envy”. Same think when I selected the noise reduction tool for skin in Nik Software’s Color Efx Pro. It gives you the option to fill in the entire image with the effect or to paint it in areas you want to. There are other actions in the TRA set that automatically apply the effect/action to the entire image. You can select the eraser tool and erase that effect/action from parts of the image. Or sometimes you can select the paintbrush tool and then hit “x” on your keyboard to change the background from white to black (watch the 2 little boxes in the bottom part of the Photoshop tools menu box), and then paint the picture where you wish to remove a certain effect/action. Make sure to hit “x” again to bring the background back to white.
WOW it takes that much work for ONE pic? Final product looks amazing. Great job girl!
LOL, Lilly. Believe it or not, that’s usually the minimum I process on EACH and EVERY image I provide to my clients. I want to make sure all is perfect and consistent with exposure & color when the photos are presented to them. And then there’s at least double to even triple the work spent on some of the more creative shots to really add drama. That’s why pro photographers charge what they do. It isn’t just the 8 hours they show up on the one day ; )
THANK you for recipe Monday!! I just recently purchased the TRA1, and I am having a great time learning new editing methods. Your recipes and description of your editing workflow are so helpful!!
I think you are amazing and I love your honesty!!!!! I love it!!!
really beautiful, for a new photographer it is great to hear someone who is so accomplished talk your first experiences, gives me so much hope for the future. love all your photos.
Thank you Daniel & Audra, I am so happy to know that these are helpful in any small way! Helga, thank you!
Welcome to my ninth installment of Recipe Mondays! This week, we are going to practice on baby Kosta using Totally Rad Actions . Isn’t he just a dream? Here we go!
The Original SOOC (Straight-Out-Of-Camera):
I used CS4’s clonestamp tool to get rid of the distractions in the photo.
Next I did a curve adjustment via CS4 with...
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That’s a very sweet photo. Looks great! Love the complete step-by-step.
I so love the feeling this images gives, timeless and warm. The only thing I would revisit is the Clone Stamp, I can still see where the outlets were. Thank you for the step by step, I’m going right now to try this look on a few images of my own.
It’s really lovely Caroline! I really like the warm tone to it….what a little sweetheart
That’s the difference between photography and custom photography… makes it a real work of art!! I love recipe monday!
WOW!! That is the most ADORABLE baby I have ever seen. But then again I may be biased b/c I am his mommy. Caroline, great pic!! Cannot wait to see more. We really enjoyed our session and are so excited about seeing more images.
Love to see how other photographers do their stuff! Great job! Jane
Thank you everyone! Chris, thank you for letting me know, however it’s so strange but I REALLY can’t see it from my monitor at all. The only thing I’m thinking is maybe my monitor is brighter and you can’t see imperfections as well on maybe other monitors that may be darker and show more? I’ll see if I can perfect it, otherwise ; )
Welcome to my eighth installment of Recipe Mondays using Totally Rad Actions! I spent some time with this beautiful pregnant momma’ and her adoring husband this past Saturday and will have more from this session posted later on this week.
Here is the original SOOC (straight out of camera):
I used “Yin/Yang” to “Yin” some of the...
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LOVE IT!
Thanks for sharing the wealth!!! ;D
Caroline, these posts are great. Thanks for giving us Recipe Mondays!!!
Thanks so much! your an awesome teacher!
I look forward to these every single week! I think it’s so amazing that you actually post SOOTC shots and then go step by step with them. That’s what I need…and you even include pictures!!!! I just blogged about the frustrations in editing yesterday and things like this, help so much! Thank you for being so awesome!
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