Tutorial | Skins @ Gelaskins.com

Here’s a quickie video tutorial for you on using the new skins in the store today and working with gelaskins.com to upload and purchase for your favorite phone and MP3 models. To watch in HD, click here.

Customizing Skins for Gelaskins.com from Pink Ink Studios on Vimeo.

Color Correcting in Adobe Lightroom

This quick tutorial will show you how to color correct your images in Adobe Lightroom. Don’t go hating me, okay!? Now, I’m not saying actions and presets are ALL bad. I’m just saying, think twice before you think they will “fix” your images with their pre-set color popping. They won’t. They are there to artistically enhance your shots (minus the production ones set up to make some things easier and faster – like digital fill flash or sharpening). Never use them to fix what you may have done wrong in the first place – like exposure issues because it will vary from image to image. If you learn to color correct for your camera and lighting situation, you can do it fast and consistently. After all, that’s what we want our clients to see. Consistent images reflecting YOUR style (not someone else’s). Then, you can apply the fun actions and presets to give them a little something “different” for fun!

Color Correcting in Adobe Lightroom from Pink Ink Studios on Vimeo.

Friday Tutorial – Clipping Masks

Need help with Clipping Mask? We work a lot with these in our products. And, many of us pre-set them up in your files to drag and drop in between the layers. However, if you accidentally delete the layer, you feel stuck? Here’s a quick video tutorial to show you how it’s done! To see it in HD, please visit it online at Vimeo.

Creating and Applying Clipping Masks in Photoshop from Pink Ink Studios on Vimeo.

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!

Holly McCaig – Owner, Holly McCaig Designs, LLC
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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.

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