Bead Deals This Week

Some of my favorite online bead stores are having some great sales this weekend:

• Through August 23rd: Beadaholique.com is having a 15% off wire and wire tools sale if you enter the coupon code WIRE82.
• Through August 25th, FusionBeads.com is having a 40% off sale on select seed beads.
• Through August 24th, Artbeads.com is having a 43% off sale on select fire-polished beads.
• Through August 23rd, Shipwreckbeads.com is having a 30% off all Czech pressed glass.
  

Photoshop Tip: Removing a Color Cast

If you do a lot of jewelry photography and have Photoshop, you may be interested in my latest Photoshop tip, Removing a Color Cast, at my sister site, EspressoGraphics.com.

When it comes to photographing my beadwork, I often end up with an annoying color cast even when I photograph the jewelry using a light box, turn off the flash, use an Ott-Lite for lighting and fiddle with the settings on my digital camera. I have found that the quickest and easiest way to get rid of that color cast is to convert the image to Lab mode in Photoshop and tinker with it there.

This Photoshop CS3 tip shows you how to go from this:

to this:

New patterns uploaded

I just uploaded two new patterns:

the Tuscan Bracelet, $4, at Bead-patterns.com and AroundTheBeadingTable.com:

and the matching Tuscan Earrings, $2.75, a personal favorite, at Bead-patterns.com and AroundTheBeadingTable.com: