Video Tutorial- Turning your Animoto movie into a DVD

Here’s a quick tutorial on how I took full advantage of Animoto by turning the High Resolution MP4 file that I received into a DVD that my clients can view on their DVD player.  Tutorial uses Mac specific software so I’m uncertain as to whether or not PC users will find similiar software that may compare to iMovie or iDVD, but please share with us by leaving a comment on this post if you know of such software!

Carrie is the owner/photographer for Carrie Ann Photography and a designer at Pink Ink Studios.

Creating Dreamy Stars Brushes in Photoshop

I just love those fairy photos – or even seeing how people get artistic with their work. I thought showing you how to create some dreamy star brushes in Photoshop might be fun. A nice break from all the rushing of holiday ordering we’re doing right now. Enjoy!

Creating Dreamy Star Brushes in Photoshop from Pink Ink Studios on Vimeo.

Customizing Holiday Cards

It’s that time of the year!  You’re running around like crazy ordering your clients prints and packaging them up and then it comes time to design their holiday cards.  Wondering how you can stretch your dollar a little more and make even more customized cards?  Check out this quick tutorial….

You can pick up this card from Carrie HERE

Carrie Bombria- PHOTOGRAPHER Carrie Ann Photography DESIGNER Carrie Ann Designs

Using PS Actions as Droplets for Lightroom

I am a die-hard believer in using Lightroom to sort & rate my images as well as color correct them. I don’t use any fancy presets, and I don’t over action my images – unless I’m just flat out playing around and getting artsy. But, normally, those aren’t for my clients.

The concept I’m trying to explain here is “speed” and speeding up your workflow is so important. Hey, we want to be able to give our clients their images faster than two to four weeks. With this and a few other things I’ve learned along the way (along with nailed exposure in camera) I have been able to edit a session (this is after I’ve downloaded, backed up and imported into Lightroom) in about an hour. Yee-HAW!

This process is nothing new, but it was new to me until my friend, Christy, shared a link to this video. I use two actions on photos. I was constantly having to export my images from Lightroom and then, open up Photoshop to run my color defog and slight pop as well as my black and white process action.

Technically, this process STILL opens Photoshop and runs the actions, but I can walk away and it does it all automated. Cha-CHING!

Simply click this link to watch the talented Scott Rouse do his thing on creating droplets from actions. Seriously, I deliver my proofs so much faster.

One thing I DID learn was that I had to duplicate my action and then add a step of flatten and close in order for it to NOT ask me to save each time. Took me a minute to discover that, so I thought I’d share that with you too. If you’re not familiar with droplets – now you will be!

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How to Use the 4 x 6 Calendars

I hope to keep creating tutorials for products I design. You never know when they might help you out with other design issues that you’re having in Photoshop. I like to think that what we do here has a bit of a universal use. Be sure to click on the video to go to the full size version. Here, you can purchase the 4 x 6 Easel Calendars.

One Way to Alter Colors in Photoshop

This short, video tutorial, will show you how to alter colors of contrasting designs in Photoshop. Note, this isn’t going to work for textured files with variations of colors. But if you have something similar to work with, like shown in this tutorial, you can have a little more control over changing colors when not working with layered .PSD files!

Click the video to go to Blip.tv and watch full screen.

Video Tutorial – Re-coloring Overlays

My goal here is to get you thinking outside of the box when it comes to purchasing some of our overlays or downloading our textures on the blog. Sure, it’s easy to use them straight from the file. But, wouldn’t it be cool if you could really change them up, layer them, and re-color them? I’m going to show you here in this video tutorial, how you can recolor overlays and merge them together to create a really fun and different look!

Recoloring Overlays from Pink Ink Studios on Vimeo.

Video Tutorial – Eye Sparkle

This is probably my best seller in the store and really such a simple process that I had to make it an action to make my own editing go just that much faster. Time is money, right? So, without further a do, here is a quick, video tutorial on how my Eye Sparkle Photoshop Action works!

How to Use Our Free Forums

How to use the new free forums at Pink Ink Studios is easy! We even created a little video tutorial just for you.

Visit the link here on our Blip.tv account.

http://pinkinkstudios.blip.tv/file/1779471/

Video Tutorial – STRETCH IT!

I have smaller seamless paper drops that I use for headshots and my Lollipop shots. With smaller kids, I will often use it when space is limited in my house. So, I end up with my backdrop not all the way across the shot. Here’s my fix for seamless paper!

Click here to watch on Blip.TV or watch it embedded over in the top right of our homepage if still actively the current tutorial. Remember, select the icon to view full screen and press escape to close it down!

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