Getting Started

Are you ready to take your photography skills, style and editing to the next level?

Then you’ll want to try your hand at our 2011’s weekly challenge: Shoot and Edit.

If this is your first time clicking on this tab, here’s the deal:

In 2011, every Monday morning, Jill posted a SOOC (straight out of the camera) shot and tutorial. Every Thursday morning, I had my SOOC shot fully edited with a tutorial for you to follow. Although this meme has come to an end, you can go through any of our past tutorials and follow along.



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If you missed any of the lessons from last year – here they are:

• Week 1: A Touch of Snow – Basic Editing techniques
• Week 2: Morning Coffee – Layer Masks
• Week 3A: Good Night – Noise Reduction
• Week 3B: Bath Tub – White Balance
• Week 4: Red – Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast
• Week 5: Hearts – Adjustment Layers, Levels, Rule of Thirds
• Week 6: Love/Romance – Curves Adjustments
• Week 7: Pink – Speedlights and Retouching
• Week 8: Self Portraits – More skin retouching and the Liquify tool
• Week 9: Spring – Resizing and Sharpening for the Web, and Stretching the Canvas
• Week 10: Yellow – Creating Sun flare (unwrapping the sun-kissed action)
• Week 11: Flowers – Nice & Easy action and using Pixel Bender
• Week 12: Green – Instant Green Grass!
• Week 13: Up! – Applying Texture
• Week 14: Faith – Straightening a Horizon and Adding Text to an Image
• Week 15: Easter/Passover – Selective Color and Calibration
• Week 16: Friends/Family – Advanced ACR and Using Presets
• Week 17: Growth – Advanced ACR Review
• Week 18: Mother’s Day – Gradient Maps
• Week 19: Rain/Umbrella – Cloning and Healing
• Week 20: Chalk Drawings – Mouse Over Effect
• Week 21: Looking Up – Vignettes
• Week 22: Bubbles – Rendering a Bubble
• Week 23: Swings/Slides – Dodge and Burn!
• Week 24: Father’s Day – Black and White Actions
• Week 25: Sunrise (Kitty Paw) – The RED CHANNEL!
• Week 26: Red, White and Blue – Invert Tool and Stretching the Canvas
• Week 27: Skies the Limit – Framing
• Week 28: Summer – Sharing a few new presets/actions
• Week 29: Laughter – Lightroom Guest Tutorial
• Week 30: Sunset – Adding Dramatic Color
• Week 31: Turn the hose on! – Creating a Composite
• Week 32: Bright and Colorful – Color Blocks
• Week 33: Shadows – Using Photo Filters to Change Mood
• Week 34: Ocean/Pool/Lake/River – Watermarking
• Week 35: Back to School – Keyboard Shortcuts
• Week 36: Night Shots – Reducing Noise (Lightroom)
• Week 37: Teen or Adult Portrait – Adjustment Brushes (Lightroom)
• Week 38: Fall – Batch Processing for Photoshop and Lightroom
• Week 39: Orange – Review
• Week 40: Leaves – Guest Tutorial
• Week 41: Pumpkins – Split-Toning
• Week 42: Memories – Guest Tutorial (using the text tool to create interesting collages)
• Week 43: Costumes – Guest Tutorial (creating and using a light box)
• Week 44: Macro – Review
• Week 45: Family – Blending Images
• Week 46: Gratefulness
• Week 47: Thanksgiving – Post-Processing Workflow
• Week 48: Holiday/Christmas – Guest Tutorial (Lightroom Gradient Filters)
• Week 49: Bokeh Lights – Guest Tutorial (create your own bokeh)
• Week 50: Holiday Traditions
• Week 51: Happy New Year – Mosaic

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Ready?  Set?  Shoot!