Congratulations to our 2021 Photoshop Essay Scholarship Winner! We received so many wonderful essays written by talented students from around the world.  It was a pleasure to read all the creative and informative es...

How to Make a Carousel in Photoshop  Instagram carousels are one of the biggest trends that everyone raves about throughout the photography community.  Carousels are a great and easy way for creative individuals to s...

How to Smooth Skin in Photoshop Several of our Photoshop Action collections come with skin brushes that will beautifully smooth and soften your subject's skin, and do so quickly and easily! These collections are: Pr...

How to Add a Watermark in Lightroom Mobile A watermark is text OR an image that is applied to a photo that lets others know who created the image.  In the past, most people added their watermark using the desktop ver...

Photography Business Cards Are you thinking about starting a brand new photography business, or are you already established and looking to upgrade your marketing materials? Even in this day and age of social networki...

How to Smooth Skin in Lightroom Mobile Lightroom Mobile is steadily becoming one of the most popular apps for editing photos on the go.  Even professional photographers are starting to use it to edit some of their ph...

(All photos in this post edited with presets from the Film Boheman Preset Collection) How to Set Up an Awkward Couple's Photoshoot I recently held a model call on my Facebook page for awkward couples looking to do a ...

Learn how to use the Lightroom Mobile App, one of the best mobile photo editing tools available! This LR Mobile editing guide will teach you the basics & help you create beautiful pictures on the go!

Troubleshooting Your Camera On the Go! Have you ever been taking photos and all of a sudden your camera does something unexpected?  If this happens to you right in the middle of a photoshoot it can be extra stressful...

5 Tips for Better Summer Photos With summer quickly approaching, here are some tips to help you make the most of your time shooting in the warm, summer months! 1. Timing Do not shoot in the middle of the day.  In ge...

6 Tips for Photographing Uncooperative Children If you have ever photographed children, then you know that their moods can often be unpredictable and change on a dime.  They may be upset about coming to your photosho...

How to Capture More Natural Photos of Kids Capturing photos of kids can be a bit of a daunting task sometimes.  They are typically on the go and are not always easily guided into natural poses and expressions.  In fa...

3 Tips for Taking Better Self Portraits We all enjoy photos of ourselves, including photos of us with our children and photos of our whole family together!  But finding someone else to take these family photos every ...

How to Care for Your Memory Card: Tips for Photographers While memory cards aren’t typically the most exciting part of photography, they are definitely an important piece of equipment that needs to be taken care of p...

Should You Hire an Accountant for Your Photography Business April 15th will be here before you know it.  If the thought of taxes and business finances sends you into a cold sweat, then now’s the perfect time to final...

Accounting Tips for Photographers For part two of this series, I continued my conversation with Karen Schultz of CKS Accounting Services and asked her all those burning photography-related accounting questions that I...

4 Signs it’s Time to Turn Your Photography Hobby into a Business Are wondering if you should turn your photography hobby into a professional photography business?  It is very common for photographers who have been s...

Top 6 Top Pet Photography Tips It’s no secret that I LOVE my dog, Huxley.  He features prominently on my Instagram account.  Right after we adopted him, my husband deployed and then a few months later, my youngest ki...

Documentary Photography: Don't Stop Documenting Your Life (Originally published in October 2017) For the past several weeks, I’ve been thinking about what to write about regarding photographing my my military family....

Editing Pet Photos in Lightroom Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 4) I love taking photos of pets - dogs, cats, horses... you name it.  I also specialize in elopement and engagement photography and many times my clients w...