Castillo Family Shoot – New Layout – Seal Beach, CA

I took a ton of photoshop classes at school which taught me the basics of photoshop and I followed a ton of blogs and tutorials to even learn more. But if you don’t have a master sense of photoshop, designers and photographers can end up running into a wall of what we can do. Great ideas would have to come from really creative minds and I for one am not a master photoshop or a immensly creative person, so when it came to actually designing things and using photoshop for other purposes other than immediate editting of a photo, I had no clue what to do. Luckily I keep at it and constantly use the resources available online like PhotoshopUserTV and CoffeeShop Photoshop to keep my imagination going. I’m not one to come up with totally new ideas and start revolutions, i’m moreso the type of person who can innovate off of someone elses idea and make it into my own. Just look at Kobe Bryants turn around fade away jump shot, Michael Jordans originally – Kobe Bryant made it his own, and even better. ;] PhotoshopUserTV has so much to offer along with all the other blogs and videos out there to show us users how to do certain things, its up to us to tranform those lessons into something that will be useful for us. And thats how I came up with this new template for my photographs. Photographs one by one have a different effect on the viewer rather than photos in a layout, where the viewer can move around the photographs. The problem was creating a template that can easily throw photographs in and make sure they are sized and fit in the right spots easily. For some of you the idea is really easy, for some of you the execution is simple. But to make it efficient enough to make the work fast was my problem. After going through tutorials and advice websites, I was able to find a way to make dropping pictures and laying them out uniquely each time a cinch. And trust me, its much harder than you think. When i finish i felt like I won a war, and that feeling you get when you accomplish something, even so small, its what we should all keep doing. Keep learning, whether it be camera associated, or post production, keep striving to learn something more, and it’ll pay off in the end :) Even if it is just personal satisfaction.

With that being said here is the Castillo Family Shoot. Agnes, the eldest daughter asked me to do her family’s portraits as a gift to her parents 25th wedding anniversary. Agnes is getting married next year and just recently locked me in for her wedding photography in San Diego. So if your having your wedding next year, don’t forget to book me! Now is the time, please enjoy!

Location: Seal Beach, CA