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October 2007

October 30, 2007

Cause we're all so busy, how's about a freebie?!

Well, I'm sure that we're all crazy busy right about now. I'm leaving for southern CA in less than a week and have a million things to wrap up before I can leave town . . . sigh . . . isn't it always like that?!

One of the things that I will do before I leave is launch the Gloria set of Christmas Cards. So stay tuned for that!

Anyway, thought that I'd share a simple little card that I designed a while back. It's theoretically a Christmas card, but it would be easy to adapt it to a number of situations!

Nicholevan_freecard_copy_2

You can download the card here. The download is 6MB, just so you know!

Download Card

Just a thank you to all of you who take the time to stop by here!

October 24, 2007

Some recent faves . . . .

Well, tis the busiest time of year. I'm doing more sessions right now than I can count. But it's been so much fun. Just thought I'd post a few of my fav shots from the last few weeks!

Christensen_14_texture copy

Salisbury_35 copy

Wallin_3_urban copy

Riggs_07 copy

Tiffany_46 copy

Johnsen_29 copy

Christensen_23 copy

October 19, 2007

Presets now here and at a special price . . . .

Well, my RAW presets for Lightroom and CS2/CS3 are now available! If you want the whole scoop on these, look below at my last post. I'm sorry to say that I don't have a comprehensive  list of images that shows the result of every preset. I'm still working on pullling it all together over the next day or two.

Needless to say, the color presets include many different standard proofing presets and some fun toned presets too, for a total of 25 presets. The BW and Vintage set includes channel mixed BW's, straight BW's and toned BW's. It also includes several Vintage presets for a total of 25 presets.

As I stated below, pricing will be the same as for all my other actions ($39 for each set, $69 for both, etc.) but I'm launching them with a group buy here on the blog. So the price for the next couple days will be $34 each or both for $55.

Link to Purchase Presets

Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions!

October 18, 2007

NicholeVan RAW Presets . . . .

Well, folks, as I mentioned in my last post, I am currently in the final testing stages with my RAW presets. I created them with the more powerful Lightroom RAW manipulator which allows the presets to access advanced functions in ACR that aren't normally available.

So there are two sets: (1) NV Color Presets and (2) NV Vintage and BW Presets. They are compatible with CS2, CS3 and Lightroom and give the exact same results in all three programs. (I'm actually checking to see if they will work with PSE 5 and CS ACR.). Also, when you purchase the presets, you get the preset files for Photoshop and Lightroom (a huge boon to those of us who own and use both interchangeably) and there are 25 presets in each set.

Pricing will be the same as for all my other actions ($39 for each set, $69 for both, etc.) but I'm sure that I'll launch them with a group buy here on the blog which will be $34 each or both for $55. Also, I'm working on what I'm calling a Preset Add-on pack you will be able to purchase separately. It will be about $20 and will include a around 25-30 different "add-on" presets that just affect one part of the image (like adding a vignette or adjusting the exposure, etc.). Just have to work some of the bugs out of it. Add-on presets can be tricky with ACR.

So how's about some samples? Ready for all of these? With each of these examples, I did no adjustments. Just applied the preset to the SOOC image and resized for the web. Nothing else.

SOOC

SOOC

Pop
Pop

Fresh Vintage
Fresh Vintage

Copper BW
Copper BW

And snother set that shows a different range of the presets

SOOC Original

SOOC

Cross Processed

Cross Processed

Acid BW

Acid BW

Pearl

Pearl

Basic BW

Basic BW

Thanks again to all you wonderful people who take the time to stop by here! And check back in a day or two for an update. I expect that these presets will be ready for launch sometime this weekend.

October 16, 2007

Life is busy . . . . so how's about a little freebie?!

Well, I've been a slacker! Just too much going on. Tons of sessions and so much to do! I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about!

Oh and I'm so happy to announce that I will soon be releasing RAW presets for CS2, CS3 and Adobe Lightroom. I've been working on them for months and using them for my wedding editing. So love them. They're really simplifying my life! I'll have to come back to post some before and after examples.

In the meantime, here's a little freebie. It's a small WB action that will help remove a reddish/orange cast from a photo.

Free WB Action

Just a little thank you to all who take the time to stop in here!

October 01, 2007

Photosessions in Southern California . . . .

So I just wanted to announce that I'll be in the LA area from November 9-16 or so. And I'm booking some sessions while I'm down there and I'm guaranteeing the photos from the sessions for Christmas.

So email me (nichole@nicholeV.com) if you're interested as I'm only going to do a handful of sessions while I'm there. Also, just so you know, my out-of-state pricing is slightly different from the pricing on my website. Basically, I don't like to deal with prints long distance, so all the sessions I do will include the digital negatives. Email me and I'll send you all the details as there are several packages to choose from!

Also, don't forget the group buy going on right now (see below) . . . .