Professional Photo Lab and Photo Printing Blog

I am not good at creating all those beautiful press products that I see some photographers create.

I usually buy templates, or pay for design work to create my own products for holidays, high school seniors and other specialty lines that I offer. I just don’t have the time, nor take the time to learn how to create beautiful cards …….but I do love them.

You can imagine how happy I am to learn H&H Color Lab is offering FREE photoshop templates with their new line of designer cards for photographers. Yes, FREE!! They are gorgeous and can be modified to fit the holiday or event you need for your clients. They are elegant, fun, modern, and did I say gorgeous? (more…)

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

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…)

Here is a series of movies that I did that show how to take your logo and create a custom shape from that logo.

Then how to use the custom shape with layer styles to apply the logo to your images.

Then automating that with an action.

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