1. Post a comment letting me know you would like to win!

2. Tell all your friends!! Extra entry for retweeting and sharing on FB about this contest!

3. Go shopping!! Extra entry for buying any action set in my shop! TWO extra entries for buying a bundle of package.

4. Extra entry for Fanning M4H on FB as well as Lensbaby!

Good Luck!!!!

The winner is….

1. I’ve been a fan on FB! Love your work!!Comment by Thelma Sampedro — August 27, 2010 @ 12:30 pm

Thelma Sampedro!! Please contact me at Sarah @ myfourhensphotography.com so I can put you in touch to redeem your prize!

Thanks again!!
Sarah

Aperturent.com is a site to rent lenses, cameras, lighting equipment and accessories. Knowing how expensive equipment gets, they have made many products available that you can rent an use only while you need it. Renting is a great idea when you have a special session, event or when you are trying to decide what to buy as you can compare and have hands-on experience with the items you would like to purchase before actually investing money on them.

They make the process very easy and have equipment compatible with Canon, Nikon, Olympus and more. If you don’t see what you need on the site make sure you e-mail them and request it, they may still be able to get it for you!

Seriously doesn’t that sound awesome!!! Sooooo wanna win??!! All you have to do is post here and let me know!! Wan’t some extra opportunities to win?! To get extra entries this is what ya need to do:

Fan M4H actions on FB Right HERE, Post about it on FB and let me know about it in a comment!!

Fan Aperturent.com on FB Right HERE and let me know about it in a comment!!

Make any purchase during my site wide 40 percent off End of Summer Sale! Double entries if you purchase any of my action packages! All purchases made yesterday count towards the extra entry as well!!  Use code  40weekend at checkout!!

Thanks so much and Good luck!!

XOXO

Hugs!

Comment by Monica Reynolds — August 1, 2010 @ 10:46 am

Yup totally random! Thank you so much honey! I will be having all the sponsers in the grand prize giveaway contact you to give you your amazing goodies! I am SO excited! Thank you so much everyone for playing around!!
Don’t be dissapointed I still have some mini prizes to distribute so I will be doing that all week long!! Even if you didn’t win big be on the lookout for some little things cause you may still just win something!! Including some M4H goodies. Also be on the lookout for an after the sale sale lol! A couple times this week on my fan page I will be posting some discount codes so if you were out of town its a second chance to save and get ya some new action goodness!

Thanks again everyone! You made my shop anniversary SO special! I love you all from the bottom of my heart! I really really do!!!!!

Hugs!!!!!!

Throughout my sale I will be offering up chances to win fantastic prizes with random gift cards to various digital scrapbook shops as well as my own actions, lightroom presets from Pretty Presets and other fun things!! I also am having an AMAZING contest with one HUGE grand prize that will be going to one lucky winner!

The mini contests will be totally random, posted on my facebook wall for my fan page here and will be in most cases on a first come first serve basis. The prizes include Gift Cards to many digital scrapbook stores including Crystal Livesay Designs , Zinnia’s and Swallowtails, Fruitloop Sally, FIzzy Pop Designs, Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs, Misty O’ Brien Designs,   A 25.00 gift card from Four Winds Quilting, starbucks gift cards, a target gift card,  my own actions, lightroom presets gift cards from the amazing Laura from pretty presets and other fun things!!

The Grand Prize is a HUGE package going to one lucky winner!! Up for grabs is:

A 100.00 gift card to On The Spot Studio

A  50.00 Amazon Gift card courtesy of Inspire Me baby

A 50.00 Gift card and a Custom set of Moo Cards from Corina Nielson

A Free set of 400 Mini Moo Cards from Moo.

A premade Logo and matching stamp set from Annie Banananie Designs

A Beautiful Mod Camera Strap from Sally’s Angelworks

A 45.00 Gift Certificate to Tulah Clothing Co.

A gorgeous tutu from Katherine Forbes Photography

A Set of beautiful Photo Veils from Love that Shot!

A gorgeous set of Photographer’s Wall Template Guides from Ariana!

A 25.00 Gift Card to Paislee Press

A spot in Amanda Padgett’s amazing workshop Everyday Elements!!

A Custom Blog from Graffiti Chicks!

A 25.00 Gift Card from Four Winds Quilting

Phew! Overwhelmed yet?! LOL

To Enter:

Leave a comment on this post and let me know what your favorite M4H action set is!!! No purchases necessary however a purchase in the shop will give ya another entry and if you buy a bundle package you will get TWO entries!

You also get an extra entry for fanning me on facebook here and linking back, Posting on your facebook wall and/or fan page, Tweeting about me and following me on Twitter!

Thank you SO much everyone for being so amazing!!!

This is one of those posts I have been meaning to do for ages! I definitely plan on doing lots more as well but I wanted to give you a quick idea of what my process looks like when I use my own photoshop actions! There are so many ways to use M4H actions. I also plan to make my actions even more customizable in the future by adding lots of fun tweak able layers because I know personally I love to play and tweak everything to my own taste! Actions are not a one size fit all business and we are not going to get the same result photo to photo. Especially when we are working with a ton of different lighting conditions, skin tones, etc etc. So here is just a couple of photos with what I have done with them right on the photos. My process is pretty straight forward as I didn’t do very much. Here ya go!

Oh and as a precursor I am a HUGE fan of color balance adjustment layers in Photoshop! I def intend on writing a tut on how t use those and how best to get some awesome results using them with my actions so be on the lookout for that!

This is my jumping off point. This is me running the action on my sooc image! Love the effect already, (this is def one of my favorite actions!!) You can find it in the Freshly Vintage set! But shes looking a bit to red for me!

Here is with a Color Balance Adjustment layer introducing more Cyan and more Yellow to bring the skin tones to somewhere visually pleasing to me.

And lastly here I ran the action Basic Editing from the Photographer’s Tool Box. I turned the levels adjustment layer (the second one down from the top) and I also turned the third curves layer down to 80 percent. That is it!! Besides this being web sharpened there is nothing else that has been done to this photo! I hope that helps a little!!

Again will be doing lots more of these if you are interested!
Thanks a bunch!!
Sarah