Then her youngest daughter became interested in makeup and costumes and would dress up and ask her mother to take her photos, so Deanna picked her camera back up. It was too depressing for her to even touch a camera for a few years so she took a break. It was a very successful business, but the stress that came with it didn’t play well with her chronic illness and after several hospitalizations, doctors told her she needed to stop working.

That didn't last long as she quickly became very well known locally for her photography and opened up her own photography studio a few months later. She did composites using other people's stock for several years before picking up a camera in 2004 to start taking her own photos to work from. Tutorial Running time : 1 hour 54 minutesĪbout the presenter : Deanna Cathcart (Deathbycanon)ĭeanna Cathcart has played around in photoshop since ps5 came out in 1999.

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