6 Inexpensive Ways to Advertise Your Photography Business When it comes to advertising your photography business, the amount of options can seem overwhelming, and oftentimes very expensive. If you are just starting t...
3 Tips for Getting More Photography Referrals With any small business, especially a photography business, word of mouth and referrals play a critical role in generating new business, as well as sustaining repeat clie...
How to Use the Lightroom Book Module The Lightroom Book Module is a super-user-friendly feature you can use to create photo books quickly in Lightroom. After you create your photo book, you can export it to the web,...
Understanding the Histogram in Photoshop Have you ever wondered how to read the histogram in Photoshop, and how you can use the information it is providing you? In this tutorial, we will give you the basics of the h...
Making the Most of Your Photography on a Budget Some of our readers have asked us to write a post on how you can enjoy photography on a small budget, so I wanted to put together a post with some of my own suggestions...
How to Use the Patch Tool & Smart Blur Filter to Retouch Skin There are many tools you can use to retouch skin in Photoshop. Two of my favorites are the Patch Tool and the Smart Blur Filter that will not only sp...
How to Get Sharper Photos Using Manual Focus In order to achieve sharp focus on your images, you can set the focusing mode on your lens to manual focus. Manual focus is not ideal for ALL situations, but if you have ...
6 Important Lessons I Learned from Photography I am fairly new to the photography world and even newer to the business side of photography. I have been shooting for about four years, and have been self-employed as a...
(Image above edited with Velvet Color from the Clean Edit Portrait Workflow) 6 Tips for Photographing Your Subjects in Public If you prefer to shoot in natural light, you may not always have the luxury of photographi...
How to Enhance a Boring Photography Location I’m pretty sure we have all been in this situation, at least once: you’re hired for a shoot, and the location is far from aesthetically pleasing. Whether you’re shooting p...
How to Use Selective Color in Photoshop When you hear the words "selective" and "color" side by side, you may get a little bit nervous, but I promise you I am not talking about the 1990's selective color photography ...
How to Create a DYI Rainbow Light Filter A while back, a photographer friend of mine made a really neat DIY rainbow light filter using diffraction glasses, and I wanted to give it a try myself so that I could show yo...
How to Increase Contrast in Photoshop If you want to add contrast to an image in Photoshop, there are several ways you can do so, and in this tutorial we will show you all 4 different methods. Let's start with the qu...
How to Replace Color in Photoshop October and November are my favorite months of the year here in the Southeastern U.S.! The heat and humidity have finally vanished, and I can get outdoors with my camera, without fe...
sRGB vs Adobe RGB When browsing the settings on your DSLR, you may have come across the color profile settings in your camera's menu. You will find 2 different setting choices: sRGB and Adobe RGB. In this post, we w...
How to Travel with Camera Gear I recently traveled to Costa Rica to photograph a wedding, and I quickly realized that flying with all of my camera gear was a monumental undertaking. Below are a few tips that made my ...
Common Image File Types As a photographer and a user of both Lightroom and Photoshop, I see quite a range of photo file types - from our original RAW files, to TIFF, JPEG and PNG. If you are wondering about the char...
Why You Should Network With Other Photographers I have a lot of friends who are photographers. It hasn't always been this way, though - I only had one or two photographer friends before I got into photography myself...
How to Take Better Black & White Photos A simple, black and white photo is timeless, and an art-form all its own. Here are a few tips and techniques for taking black and white photos, as well as some of the reas...
Basics of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) This post is an introduction to editing RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw (often referred to as ACR), and assumes that you have a working knowledge of the difference between RAW and JPEG ...