Thank you for all the laughs this week!  We had a hard time narrowing it down to just a couple images.  We hope these moments can bring a smile to your face! Congratulations to Rachel Krause and Mary Rather.  Please...

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson  It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long since I had a love-hate relationship with my camera.  Some images came out exactly how I hoped and env...

Have you ever noticed that yucky neon purple or green line outlining your subjects or objects in a photograph you've taken? Are you curious about how this occurs or how you can quickly fix it? Watch as we talk about ...

 Warm weather and bright sun are here and both of those things lend themselves to silhouettes.  Achieving silhouettes is really easy, and here are some tips to help you: EXPOSE FOR THE BRIGHTEST PART OF THE SKY For ...

You picked the images this week!  Before you start reading, be sure you have some tissues.  The images, stories and poems we read over the past couple of days left us in awe and in tears. We were so moved by the LOVE...

We've all done it: forgotten to ask the person we are photographing to remove the hair tie from their wrist. In this Photoshop tutorial, we will show you how to use the Clone Stamp and Patch tools to remove those pe...

5 Tips for Using Instagram We all know how Facebook is a great tool for our photography businesses. Most of us have business pages and are actively sharing our work to get noticed and get new clients. But did you kn...

Mastering Brushes and Graduated Filters in Lightroom We'd like to help you save time while editing in Lightroom! This one-hour training has been dedicated to helping you use brushes and graduated filters to their fu...

We can't thank you enough for bringing Spring into our Pretty Presets group.  We've had snow on the ground and it's been such an encouragement to see all these beautiful colors again!   We picked two winners this tim...

Where Are Your Photos Now? I recently ran into a friend at Target.  She was at the photo kiosk with the memory card from her camera getting a few photos printed.  She went on to tell me that she has every photo of he...

When we typically think about the Photoshop Crop Tool, we are usually thinking about cropping (removing) portions of an image, right? In this Photoshop tutorial, the Pretty Actions team show you how use the Crop tool...

We all know Facebook is a tool we can use to market our photography businesses. Most of us have business pages and are actively sharing our work there as a way to get noticed and get new clients. But did you know th...

I am a big fan of the matte look in creative editing, but I sometimes feel like the effect is a little too heavy on the subject, making them appear darker or, in some cases, out of focus. In this tutorial, I will sh...

Wow!!  We had so many incredible submissions to our Landscape Challenge within the Pretty Presets group. Thank you for being a part of it.  Below is our winner and 7 honorable mentions that we fell in love with, too....

Entrepreneurs start businesses with hopes of doing what they love to generate income. We spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to create more sales, make more money, and grow profits, but how about learning w...

Have you ever had time to look back through old photos, or gotten some new editing tips or products and want to go back and re-edit some of your past work? As you’re scrolling through year by year, you start to wond...

  For our final installment in our series about marketing yourself in fine art and stock photography, I want to talk to you about two things that might not seem like a huge deal on first glance, but they can actually...

For our third installment in our series on how to market yourself in fine art and stock photography, I want to talk about a few of the many resources that are available to you as you begin your journey. I will touch ...

  In my previous post, we looked at some of the key points you should consider as you think about new ways to market your work as a photographer. In this post, we will go a bit more in depth and talk about how to fle...

Here at Pretty, we have a very diverse mix of photographers! While there are quite a lot of portrait photographers in our community, we also have a growing contingent of fine art photographers. And, for a lot of u...