Free Fonts!!

Ok the site I use for my fonts is www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts. This site is so fun. I have probably downloaded half of her fonts. One cool thing that she does is turn your own handwriting into a font. It is super easy, just write it out, scan it and email it and with in a week or so its a font! It works really well if you are into digital scrapbooking...which I wish I was :] Also I know some of you have made a blog book from blurb. Once these fonts are downloaded you can use them on your blog book and make it totally personalized. Anyway... just some ideas for you!

Defog

Nichole - Sara said digital images have a "fog" on them (regardless of whether you shoot in RAW of JPEG) because of digital noise that isn't present if you shoot in film. I don't entirely understand it; here is what eHow had to say:

If you are just getting into photography, you'll often hear people talk about "defogging" their pictures. This can be confusing at first but it is actually really easy. Digital cameras tend to make your photos look fuzzy, or foggy, like they have a film over them. You can easily get rid of this with the unsharp mask filter, but remember that this is different than sharpening! The unsharp mask settings increase the contrast of the photo in a way that gets rid of that foggy look. You should defog your pictures before you do any other editing and then sharpen for print at the end of your editing.

So basically, you just need to use the unsharp mask as the first step in editing. The explanation above helps reconcile what Jen told you guys about sharpening as your LAST edit. From what I understand, you DEFOG first and SHARPEN last. Confused yet? Me too.

Here's the link to the eHow article which also walks you through using the unsharp mask in Photoshop.

Carly...

You said something the other night about how Sara said there was some kind of "film" left on your pictures if you didn't shoot in raw and she showed you how to take it off... 

Or maybe I'm smoking crack.

If you have any idea what I'm talking about and could tell me how to get if off, that would be great.

Thanks.

And Elyse, what was the font site you told us about last night...

Awesomest Baby Photographer Ever

Sara Boulter recommended this photographer to me as her all-time favorite newborn photographer. I have to agree-- the things this lady gets babies to do with their hands is priceless. Just thought I'd pass it along in case you don't have enough photography blogs to follow already.

http://kelleyryden.com/blog/

Photoshop actions

Here's another blog with some free photoshop actions:

http://coffeeteaphotography.blogspot.com

Some of them are a little over the top, but there are a couple that are really neat and the author has detailed tutorials to walk you through how to use them.

Enjoy!