Editing Magical Fairy Photos Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 3) Pretty Presets and Actions have completely changed my editing.  When I first started photography, my work was inconsistent and far from where it is today. ...

How to Replace a Sky in Photoshop Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 2) We're so excited to have Kelly Gladwin with us today for our Editing Like a Pro Series!  Kelly has been inspiring the Pretty Presets and Actions commu...

How to Get People to Smile & Laugh Naturally for Photos Be honest, how many photographers reading this are still saying, “Smile on three!  One…two…three!” or “Everyone say cheese!”?  While these phrases work wond...

Editing Studio Photography in Lightroom Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 1) Studio photography wasn't always a strong area of photography for me.  It was scary and I felt quite intimidated at first (totally normal by the...

20+ Top Pets & Their People Photos Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these beautiful photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  Below are our favor...

How to Use Layer Masks in Photoshop Layer Masks are one of the most useful tools in Photoshop and learning how to use them will make your editing so much easier. What is a Layer Mask?  Essentially, a Layer Mask is a ...

Knowing how to read your camera's light meter and how to compensate for exposure are important photography concepts you should understand.  Not only will it help you get your exposure correct in-camera, but it will A...

How to Edit Color in Lightroom Mobile Mobile photography is one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting fields of photography.  The relatively new capability to both take and edit photos in Lightroom on a mobile p...

Congratulations to our 2021 Lightroom Essay Scholarship Winner! We received many amazing essays written by some very incredibly talented students from around the world.  It was a pleasure to read all of the creative ...

6 Tips for Using On-Camera Flash For me, personally, and for a lot of the photographers I know, we all love natural light.  However, sometimes you will find that you just NEED to use a flash.  For example, when shoot...

Understanding High-Key VS Low-Key Lighting In this post, we will look at two different, yet very popular, lighting techniques: HIGH-KEY and LOW-KEY.  High key lighting is just what you would imagine - very bright and...

How to Use Library Filters to Sort, Search & Manage Images in Lightroom Lightroom is an amazing program, designed to help you manage thousands and thousands of images, as well as quickly edit and process them for...

20+ Top #ILovePretty Photos Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these beautiful photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  Below are our favorites from t...

How to Do a Head Swap in Photoshop Anyone who has ever picked up a camera and taken family or group photos has had to deal with closed eyes, turned heads, unwanted expressions, and other things that can cause a great...

Do You Want to Turn Your Photography Hobby Into a Career? If you’ve been enjoying your photography as a hobby and decided you’re finally ready to take the leap and do it as your FULL TIME job, there are plenty of thi...

Basics of Editing with Brushes, Radial Gradients & Linear Gradients in Lightroom Lightroom's brush tool, radial gradient and linear gradient masks are the perfect way to add a certain effect to a specific area of...

20+ Top Photos of 2020 Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these incredible photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  It's always so hard to narrow it d...

9 Things NOT to Do During a Portrait Session Being a good portrait photographer takes more than just shooting beautiful photos.  The portrait experience begins from the moment the client first contacts you, and doesn...

Understanding Lightroom's Sharpening Sliders Sharpening in Lightroom isn't something that's talked about very often.  It isn't one of the exciting things that makes your photo beautiful or transforms it in amazing wa...

Working With Smart Previews in Lightroom Lightroom was designed to easily manage thousands of images, but should we be housing thousands of images on our computer hard drives?  Most users do not have the space and ev...