I came across this blog post lamenting the demise of the traditional printed yearbook, and it reminded me of the arguments I get all the time from parents on the yearbooks I edit. I have done books for 2 different elementary schools (with some mom help) and 1 middle school (with student help). We work hard to keep the cost of the book very
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As many of you know I love doing panoramic pictures.  Whether I’m trying to capture a really beautiful landscape or doing a class picture, panos are fun and easy to do.  And Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements make it so much easier with the PhotoMerge feature – it basically does all the hard work of assembling and correcting the panoramic for you. One of
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A Cautionary Tale of Two Women, Their Hard Drives, and a Glass of Wine You never expect it. Sure, you know it’s going to come for you someday, but you just tell yourself you’re smart and will see it coming. But always, it comes. Sometimes with a click, sometimes with an error message… sometimes silently. The death of a hard drive is almost always
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While here in the South we’re in full summer swing, some of you are in the throes of those last days of school. Awards ceremonies, graduations, proms, parties all add up to plenty of photo opportunities! But you’ve got to be careful you don’t start Chimping! I love this term, because it so perfectly describes the behavior of so many of us with a
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I’ll bet you don’t even know what a “reference point” is in Photoshop! That’s ok, I didn’t know that’s what it is called either. But I’ll bet you’ve seen it! When you have your Move Tool selected, if you have the “Show Bounding Box” box checked you will see the Bounding Box around the active layer.  This looks like lines with little squares in
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