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I own a photography business called Photos for Life, specializing in weddings. Most of the tools you see here were created by me to solve problems I ran into in the course of running my own photography business, and I thought they could help you, too. Judging by the fan mail, I think I was right!

 
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AutoLoader How-To Posts

Using Actions with AutoLoader

March 17th, 2010

One of the strengths of AutoLoader is it’s ability to run an action right after your image is loaded, right before it’s saved, or both. This is useful for applying a starting point for your retouching at the beginning, or doing things like resizing, sharpening, or modifying the colourspace at the end.

In this video, I’ll describe how to use actions with AutoLoader, potential problems, and how to get around them.
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Dealing with Extension Manager issues in Windows

February 11th, 2010

The Adobe Extension Manager is designed to permit the easy installation of plugins. For Windows Vista and 7 users, it can cause troubles due to the way that user permission rights work. If you attempt to install one of my plugins and you get an error message that talks about about inappropriate permissions, this video is for you.

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How to Assign Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop

February 3rd, 2010

Assigning keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop is pretty straightforward, but as with most things if you don’t know exactly where to look, it can be elusive. In this video, I show you  where to look :)

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Installing AutoLoader into Photoshop CS4 & CS5

December 12th, 2009

Installing AutoLoader into CS4 is a snap, thanks to the Extension Manager that comes with CS4. Your manual details the steps, but I whipped this up for you CS4 users in case you are more visually inclined :)

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Installing AutoLoader into Photoshop CS3

December 10th, 2009

The very first thing you need to do is to install AutoLoader before you can actually use it :) Your manual details the steps, but it can be tricky to copy everything where it needs to go. So here is a video tutorial to help you get `er done.

This is primarily for CS3 users, but you CS4 users can use the same steps to install into CS4 is the Extension Manager method doesn’t work for you.

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