Professional Photo Lab and Photo Printing Blog

As you probably know, TIME is MONEY, and in these times that we live in, the faster you can do something, or the less time it takes you, means you can spend more time either MARKETING, PHOTOGRAPHING, or just spending that time with your family.

So, since some have said that I have one of, if not THE fastest and most efficient workflows on the planet, I’ve decided to share this with YOU!

For years and years, I have been an exclusive PC/Windows user. Well, recently, during a class that I was teaching, I asked how many were PC users vs. how many were MAC users; AND for the first time ever, the majority of the room was MAC!

I decided, right then and there, that it was time that I learned to use a MAC. Also, as a teacher, it’s SMART for me to use a MAC because it can show both Windows and MAC operating systems. So with a MAC I can actually be more productive to more photographers.

(more…)

In this video, we will explore using Smart Objects with Adobe Photoshop CS5.

With the summer travel season upon us, I thought I’d do a blog post about what technology I typically use when I travel.

Traveling for business I travel “heavy”. By heavy I mean:

• 15″ MacBook Pro
• 3 – 4 portable hard drives
• Numerous thumb drives
• 2 smart phones
• iPad
• Point and shoot camera
• GPS
• USB Modem/Hotspot
• The chargers and cables for all of it

Getting through airport security is a Blast! (more…)

It’s the middle of July and in about two weeks some of you will be starting your 2011-2012 school photography season.  If you are a seasoned school photographer you probably started your preparations for the upcoming year before school was out in June, if you didn’t H&H can help.

One of the most important things you need is a school picture day flyer that communicates your portrait offerings to your customers.  H&H offers picture day flyers for all kinds of portrait programs pre-pay or proof, traditional or green screen photography.  You can purchase an H&H stock design and add customization about your studio or have our design center team create a completely custom flyer just for you.  What is really important is that you contact the design department NOW and place your orders. (more…)

So you want to put a copyright (©) symbol on your images  How can you do that?

On a mac – press Option and G – ©

Or, you can go into your system preferences and turn on the Keyboard and Character Viewer found under Language & Text, then to the Input Sources and check the Keyboard  Character Viewer, also check the “Show Input menu in menu bar”.  Now open up the Character viewer and set your view to “Roman”, choose the Miscellaneous section and then you will see the © symbol. Select the symbol and press insert. Your selected symbol will be inserted into your document where your cursor is.

On a pc – there are several ways to do this and they will depend upon the type of keyboard that you are using. On a desktop keyboard that has the 10 key pad on the side, press and hold the alt key, then  press 0169 on the 10 key pad.

On a laptop it can be a little more challenging. If you look close at the keyboard, you will see the numbers 0-9 overlaid on the keyboard M=0, J=1, K=2, etc.   These numbers are accessed by pressing the FN key. To duplicate what you can do on a regular keyboard, you still want to press the alt and 0169, but in addition, press the FN key. (more…)