Fix Old Photos With This One Easy Photoshop Trick
Do you know that strange red tint on all of the photos in your family albums? It has a name – it’s called a color cast. Most old pictures have one, and if you scan and upload them to Photoshop, you can easily do away…
Learn Sewing with These 5 Tips for Beginner Sewers
I learned how to sew on an aqua 1960s Singer sewing machine, and I really love those sturdy, simple mechanical machines – they are especially great for complete beginners! But no matter what machine you are beginning your sewing journey on there are some sewing…
How To Fix Flyaways In Photoshop the Easy Way with Chris Orwig
Learning how to fix flyaways in Photoshop is something any photographer can greatly benefit from. They’re nearly inevitable during shooting – but also extremely distracting in finished products. Flyaways, or those single strands of hair that you might find crossing your model’s face or straying…
An Affordable and Beautiful DIY Gift Idea: Marbled Print in a Gilded Frame
When I spotted the Creative Live’s Introduction to Paper Marbling course with Robert Mahar, I knew it was something I wanted to dive into. My sister had gifted me a suminagashi ink kit last year and even though I was SO excited to test it…
3 Photographers That Changed The Way I Shoot And How I Took Their Portrait
I look at images that creaked their way through my first camera, and I am smitten by my lack of photographic ability. That first Polaroid I got for my 16th birthday provided artistic endeavors (such as a very sleepy photo of my parents putting up…
How To Make A DIY Ring Light
Effective, attractive indoor lighting setups can easily eat into your photography business’s budget if you let it; lights and lighting gear can run in the thousands of dollars. And if you work in a rural area, where much of your studio gear comes from the…
Mother’s Day DIY Gift Project: Succulent Rings
Our CreativeLive instructors are full of interesting information, but sometimes, we learn from our fellow students, too. At Kiana Underwood’s floral design course, Sheryl Tynes, owner and founder of Thistle and Bone, let it slip that she makes a pretty incredible non-traditional kind of plant-based…
Delightful DIY Gift Idea and Tutorial: A Simple Holiday Embroidery Sampler
Truthfully, I’m more than a little envious of those crafters who are on-the-ball enough to begin creating holiday gifts in July – giving themselves plenty of time to complete insanely elaborate projects for their friends and loved ones. I’m thrilled if I begin a holiday…
DIY: How To Make Your Own Binding Tape
How many yards of extra material do you have lying around, shoved in boxes, or littering the floor of your sewing room? Enough to circle the planet? Maybe twice? And, perhaps more importantly: What are you planning to do with it all? West Coast Crafty…
DIY Wedding Trends You Will See At Every Wedding This Year
Wedding trends are fascinating; flipping through Pinterest, it’s easy to get an idea of which looks and styles are the fastest emerging, and which have already achieved full-on ubiquity. If you’re a crafter person, you’re in luck — handmade, DIY wedding decor has been right…
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