Hi photogs!

My name is Brooke Bustillos and I’m the owner of Brooke Photography and  BP4U Guides! I am a wedding photographer and blogger and I heart all things photog! : ) I have 2 beautiful boys, Bex and Broox.

I love slushies, coffee, redbull and jimmy johns, pretty much obsessed.

We offer a wide variety of products at BP4U Guides.

Posing Guides & Cards – Have a session coming up and you are terrified about posing? No worries my friend. Let us help! We have posing guides and cards for newborn, maternity, senior, engagement and wedding sessions.

Business & Marketing Guides – Take your business to the next level with our business and marketing guides. Not sure what to send a client in an email? No problema! We even have a product that has email templates galore.

Marketing Templates – We are super pumped about our new marketing templates. We have marketing templates for newborn/senior as well as portrait and wedding magazine templates. These templates are so cute!

Actions & Presets – Who doesn’t love some actions and presets? Go ahead and get your edit, your clients will love you for it!

Contracts & Forms – YIKES! Contracts can be uber confusing, hard, you never know what to put in them, it’s usually a hot mess. Well not anymore! We can help you with contracts, questionnaires, feedback forms, you name it, we pretty much have it!

Giveaway TIME!

We LOVE Chic Critique Forum and we want to do a super fabulous giveaway for one lucky winner. Are you ready to hear what it is? Come in real close… closer…

A $500 gift card to our store! WAHOOOO! You can use this on any of our products, however here’s the not so fine print. This offer cannot be redeemed for cash or used with any other promotion or sale BP4U may be running.

The Real Deal:

Oh, and to make this EVEN sweeter… we are going to offer everyone 90% off for all of our products by using code CHIC90 at checkout! YAY! Click here to check out this awesomeness. So exciting! Hurry this offer will only last while this giveaway is going on, so just a few short days!

Be sure to check out our facebook page and our blog for daily photo tips!

Happy shooting!

Brooke

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by Tanya Charlesworth | Guest Contributor

For me time is money and also time away from my daughter! That is why I try to speed up my workflow in any way possible. Creating actions and batching in Photoshop is a great way to do that!

An action is a recording of a sequence of steps that you can save and use later on with one button.  You might have installed and used action sets before that you have purchased but now I will show you the steps to create your own. We will go over the steps to create an action to flatten and image and then use this action to batch save your files.

First go to window and click on action so that your actions panel will open up. Or you can press ALT + F9 if you’re on a PC or OPT + F9 if you’re on a MAC.

Once the actions panel is open it will look like this:

The buttons on the bottom from left to right are stop, record, play, create new set, create new action and trash.

In this case, we are going to click the create new set icon and name it “Flatten” and click ok.

Now that we have a new “set”, we are going to click the new button and create an action for the set. We’ll name it and then click record:

Go through the steps of your action, in this case we want to go to your layers panel, right-click on any layer and choose “Flatten Image”, then press OK.

Now go back to the actions panel and click the square stop button. You’ll see that our action set with our new action appears in the actions panel.

To test your action out, open a Photoshop file with layers and hit the play button and make sure that it is flattening the layers of your file.

Now you can batch save your images using your newly created Flatten action!  When you have a bunch of images open you would like to save and close just follow these steps:

Go to File > Automate > Batch

Once in the Batch window, select your new Flatten Set and Flatten Layers action because the Batch processor needs to have a function to do.  Your source will be your opened files.  Choose a folder to save your files to.  Choose your file naming structure and the click ok!  That’s it!  Photoshop will go through the process of saving all of your opened files!

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ABOUT TANYA:

Tanya Charlesworth is based out of Northern New Jersey.  She shoots with a Nikon D700 and a variety of primes lenses.  She edits with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.  Photography is not her only passion; she is also a wife, a mother and a Structural Engineer. 

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This weeks Celebrity Session is from Untamed Heart Photography! Michelle only has a couple more spots left for her Chic Critique that starts in November! Sign up here.

Oh, and I was seriously obsessed with Gina’s legs…I think I have like 5 pictures of them…lol!

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by True Atelier, Teaching Tuesday Contributor

Do you dread designing and printing albums for clients? Or do you even offer them?

Offering albums to your clients can significantly boost your sales! We offer them for all types of sessions as a way for clients to take home all their favoite images in a beautiful and convenient package.  So, whether you are looking at adding albums to your product lineup, or you need a way to streamline your process to save you time and money… our design and vendor tips might help!!!

The product/ vendor:

We love metallic layflat albums from Millers Lab! They are a cross between a press printed book and album, with pages that have a thickness that is somewhere in between. Because of the page thickness they are a more affordable option for us as photographers, making them more affordable for our clients. Millers offers various size and cover options, like leather as well as custom image wraps in metallic and canvas! We love the metallic page finish. When paired with the fine linen texture the result is luxurious and vibrant!!! When open for viewing the album really does “lay flat” with no gutter in the center to break up images.

The design tool:

The SWAT designer from KISS ALBUMS is a timesaver (which means LIFESAVER)! Choose from their free design software or upgrade for more options to cut your design time down. We love that we can design an album and have it sent off to Millers in a half an hour! Check out the screenshot below for a view of the user interface.

We love how, with the help of these two tools, we are able to offer high end albums to our clients at an affordable price, without sacrificing our time in the process. Give it a try!

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Nicole Klingler and Chantri Keele are national wedding and portait photographers based out of Idaho Falls, Idaho. They love all things fashion and editorial and love sharing what they have learned with fellow photographers in the industry. Check them out at www.trueatelier.com

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It’s our Birthday month and we are going to celebrate by giving away a Lifetime Membership to Chic Critique {value of $195!}

ENTER HERE:

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It’s been an amazing year and we can’t believe that Chic Critique is ONE YEAR OLD! As is tradition with photographers and one year olds, we thought we’d celebrate by doing a little cake smashing…minus the baby. We’d love to have you join in on the fun with our brand spankin’ new, monthly INSTAGRAMMY’S CONTEST!

How to enter: 

1. Follow @chiccritique on Instagram
2. Take a Cake Smash Self Portrait with your phone of you devouring eating a cake or cupcake. We are looking for the person who is having the most “fun” celebrating our Birthday.
3. Post it on Instagram with the following phrase: “Happy Birthday @chiccritique”
4. Be sure to include the hashtag: #chicinstagrammys
5. BONUS POINTS: Share your Cake Smash Self Portrait on Facebook and Twitter too

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