I'm back from the BlogHer conference in NYC and hiding low in Chicago this week. In the meantime, many of you who were at home have emailed/tweeted me asking "are you going to share your photo editing session online?" This is for those interested in what was said at the "How to Edit Your Pictures and Make Them 10x Better " session at BlogHer...

The description of the session was:

Taken with my camera phone TWENTY MINUTES before the session started.

Ryan, a professional photographer, spoke first and stressed the importance of taking good photos. He continued by showing us a detail account of his step-by-step photoshop editing process taking a photo and making it look as real as possible. Ryan taking great pride in his amazing photos left us all breathless with his examples.

I followed Ryan in the presentation and taught everyone how to cheat at photoshop by using actions. Far from a professional photographer I explained that most of the actions that Ryan took could be bundled into one "action." Secretly thankful that Rachel (who was at BlogHer) wasn't in the same room when I was discussing her famous actions, I exhaled. Because that would be like my eight-year-old son discussing basketball with Michael Jordan.

Amy, the incredible globe trotting photographer, followed me and gave the crowd a number of free online editing sites (check them out - they are incredible) and ways to organize photos online. The session was amazing. Amy has it all up on: http://public.me.com/amywindsor password: bitchinwife

And here is my "photoshop actions" power point that I used at #blogher10: