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Hi! My name is Rita and I am the blogger behind CoffeeShop and a stay-at-home, home-schooling Mom to two naughty but adorable little boys (Duke is 7 and Imp is 4), wife to my high school sweetheart, and passionate about all things photography.

If you are visiting for the first time, welcome! Please read all about my CoffeeShop blog here. Everything on my blog is 100% free!

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Happy New Year!

>> Thursday, December 31, 2009


I just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year! I am going to have a quiet one since Imp came down with the croup yesterday (first time we have had this in our family). His cough does sound just like a seal... Poor little baby.

With the new year comes a new look for CoffeeShop...


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Still Loving the 50mm f1.8 Lens!

>> Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A bird on the shoulder is better than two in the bush.

Imp and the bird we saved from Tractor, our killing-machine cat. :-)
Nifty 50 lens (50mm f1.8)



You might have noticed that I love taking photos of my kids. And I love messy hair. Imp took a nap and came running in to me with this amazing curly mess on top of his head and I had to run and get my camera.

Luckily I had my trusty Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lenson my ol' Canon Rebel XT (yeah, still no new camera, this one is the Timex of the camera world, ...


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CoffeeShop Editing 101- Loving Gradient Map Adjustment Layers!

>> Sunday, December 27, 2009



I think that many Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements Users haven't yet discovered the amazing Gradient Map Adjustment Layer. All of the images above (other than the first SOOC) were enhanced using Gradient Map Adjustment Layers, ...


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Merry Christmas and CoffeeShop Blog Backgrounds Set 1!!!

>> Thursday, December 24, 2009


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All Kinds of Freebies!

>> Tuesday, December 22, 2009

There are so many amazing freebies for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements out there, and I decided to post a few of them ...


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Johnna's Memories of Sunshine PS/PSE Action!

>> Sunday, December 20, 2009


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Blogger UnWrapped: Making Images/Text Links Open in a New Window or Tab!

>> Thursday, December 17, 2009


Something that can really bug me is when I am visiting a blog and I left click on a link to see if it is interesting and it brings me to a new site when I wasn't really ready to leave.


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CoffeeShop Christmas Wrapping Paper Textures!

>> Tuesday, December 15, 2009



Here are some new Christmas-inspired textures. They are ...


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Winners of CoffeeShop Watermarking Actions!!!

>> Monday, December 14, 2009



Here is Imp making one of his outstanding faces. This kid is going to be ...


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CoffeeShop Dotted Birthday Invitation!

>> Sunday, December 13, 2009



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Win a Watermarking Action Kit and CoffeeShop Butterscotch Vintage Action Tweaked!

>> Friday, December 11, 2009

Closed!!!

First I want to give away one of our CoffeeShop Watermarking Action kits!



This kit works ...


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CoffeeShop Texture Tutorial: Actions AND Textures, Oh My!

>> Thursday, December 10, 2009

I love textures and I love actions, so why not combine them!



You might remember this "before" photo. I ran the CoffeeShop Butterscotch Vintage action on it. But I think it needs a bit more. Make sure you flatten your image after you run the action! So I went and grabbed the free Old Film TTV texture from Shadowhouse Creations.



Just open the texture. Select your move tool (V) and ...


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CoffeeShop Butterscotch Vintage PS/PSE Action!

>> Tuesday, December 8, 2009



Here is my newest free action, CoffeeShop Butterscotch Vintage! This action...


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CoffeeShop Rounded Corners Storyboard Set!

>> Sunday, December 6, 2009




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My Natural Light "Studio" and Amazon giftcard winner!

>> Thursday, December 3, 2009



Here is a photo of Imp (my two year old, and "Imp" is his very fitting nickname!) I took yesterday in my fancy home studio. Yes, I do have my own studio. And guess what, so do you! I drew a diagram of mine as seen below.



Fancy, right? I am pretty much a 100% natural light photographer. It is not that I don't like flash or am scared of using it, I just prefer to shoot with natural light whenever possible.

For this shot of Imp [...]


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CoffeeShop Christmas Grunge Texture and Tutorial!

>> Wednesday, December 2, 2009



Here are two free Christmas Grunge textures. They are big enough to use as backgrounds for your blogs or as textures on storyboards/cards/etc. Read below for a step-by-step tutorial (and the download link) on how I created them using free textures I found on the web.

1. I made a new document 2000px by 1200px, transparent background.

2. Next I made a new blank layer ...


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