I “met” Kelli the other day on the photography board. Shortly after meeting me, she contacted me with a picture of her son – don’t you love the expression on his face? She loves the white shirt and blue background, but the photo is severely underexposed (and apparently the lighting was really bad). In situations like this, shooting in RAW is your friend. She did try sending me the RAW file, but ultimately only the JPEG wanted to be sent. I started this photo in Adobe Camera Raw to adjust the exposure, brightness, contrast and add fill light. I then brought the photo...

I’m new to the Trendy Treehouse and The Girl Creative, so if you’ve found me through either of those sites…WELCOME. I honestly don’t really know how this whole thing works, but I guess the idea is to make a few new friends who share similar interests. There are soooo many creative people out there and I look forward to connecting with at least a few of you. Meanwhile, I hope you’ll check me out (maybe even like my work) – and if you have an editing challenge, please CONTACT ME.I have a busy weekend ahead of me, including a couple of edits for a few friends...

This week’s Fix-It Friday photo was submitted by JaimeLee at Candidly Grateful. She wrote, “This is a photo of my twins at 6 weeks old. I love the photo because of their interaction and their faces, but I feel like it’s a little drab or flat. It needs some life.”I do love this photo, and although she considers it to be “flat,” I just think it needs a little post-processing. Here’s the before:  And here is my edit: For my edit I did the following: Started in Adobe Camera Raw and made a few exposure, brightness, contrast adjustments. In PSE7, I...