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...

How to Edit Interior Photos in Lightroom In my previous post, I listed my top 5 tips for taking beautiful interior photos.  I talked about the importance of being detailed, cropping in camera, etc. Following those ti...

How to Install Photoshop Actions Welcome to Pretty Actions for Photoshop!  We have the best Photoshop action install instructions and video tutorials which you can find below. The good news is that installing Photosh...

How to Change Hair Color in Photoshop Pictures and photography have become an essential tool in everyone’s day to day lives.  Professional photography, especially, has high standards when it comes to quality of image...

Congratulations to our 2020 Photoshop 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 and in...

One Click Presets (And How to Adjust Them in Lightroom) I have been a professional photographer for ten years, and in those ten years, I have found very few one-click edit presets.  They come VERY few and far between...

Image edited with the Crystal Springs preset from the NEW Clean & Colorful Millennium Preset Collection. Importance of White Balance When Using Lightroom Presets White Balance is your friend, and can DRASTICALLY ...

How to Create a Christmas Card in Lightroom + Free Christmas Word Overlays This time of year many of us will be taking a Christmas Card photo with the intent to send it out to all of our friends and family.  Sometime...

How to Calibrate Your Lens Getting the perfect focus is one of the most-asked about questions in our Facebook group.  It can be frustrating when you feel like you are trying everything you can and your photos still a...

Editing with the Clean & Colorful Millennium Preset Collection Hello Pretty Family!  We are super excited to share with you our BRAND NEW Lightroom Preset Collection!  Just like all our other collections, this on...

How to Unzip Lightroom Presets on Mobile Devices You will need to unzip your Lightroom preset files before you install them in Lightroom Mobile.  Unfortunately, unzipping a .zip file on a mobile device can sometimes ...

7 Tips for Shooting Senior Portraits How do you feel when you hear "Senior Portrait"?  Do you picture the shot from your own school yearbook, or maybe an old shot from a department store? Photography has changed so m...

(Image captured by the talented Amanda Markham Photography LLC and edited with Reverie preset included in the Dark and Moody Millenium Preset Collection) 4 Essential Lightroom Questions Answered!  Pretty Presets &...

How to Focus & Get Sharp Eyes for Portrait Photography When we talk about focus on the eyes, we all know what that means, right?  We want the eyes to be IN FOCUS and tack sharp! Anytime you are shooting a portrai...

How to Get Sharper Photos In-Camera Day 1 of "4 Days to Sharper Photos" As photographers, it is a given that we all want sharper photos straight from the camera.  But we don’t always know exactly what to do to get th...

Aperture, Depth of Field & Shutter Speed Day 2 of "4 Days to Sharper Photos" After reading the previous post in this series, hopefully you have spent some time learning a little more about your camera and how it ...

Finding Good Light & Using a High Quality Lens Day 3 of "4 Days to Sharper Photos" Now that you have figured out your camera’s focus settings and you have practiced and understand how depth of field and shutter s...

Learning to Critique Your Own Photos One of the biggest times of improvement in my photography skills came after I learned to give myself Constructive Criticism (or CC).  Now, when I talk about criticism, I don't mea...

What Do You Need to Start a Photography Business? So you’ve decided to step out of your comfort zone and take the bull by the horns and make your dream of a photography business a reality!  Now is time to get yoursel...

How to Handle an Unhappy Photography Client “I like the photos, but…”  Nothing hurts more than hearing that your client is unhappy with the photos you’ve given them. Your first response may range from crushed, to con...