What is White Balance? One of the BEST ways to save time in post-processing is to get your white balance right in-camera! Now, if you are wondering what white balance is, or if you are familiar with the term, but are...

How to Make Light Leaks in Photoshop Because they mimic film, adding a light leak to your digital photos is an easy way of giving your photos a vintage retro vibe.  They've been made popular through several differen...

Is Film Photography Dead? We live in a digital age of photography, that fact is quite obvious!  It seems as though everyone from hobbyists to professional photographers are sporting the latest DSLR’s. So, is real fi...

How to Use Falling Leaves Photoshop Actions & Leaf Overlays In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to use the Falling Leaves Photoshop Actions and Overlays to make your Autumn photos really shine!  I will...

How to Develop Film at Home Several months ago, I wrote a post about the benefits of shooting film.  As much as I love shooting real film, one of the major drawbacks in addition to the cost is the increasing rarity o...

4 Ways to Adjust White Balance in Photoshop Like any sort of adjustment made in Photoshop, there are many different ways to adjust the white balance and correct color casts in your image.  In this post, I will show y...

EXIF Data If you are a new photographer, reviewing the EXIF data from your photos will help you improve your photography skills in a very real way.  This data will not only give you insight that can help you now, but...

How to Use Photoshop Gradient Maps In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the Gradient Map Tool in Photoshop to give your image a dramatic, muted color effect without it looking washed out and losing the depth ...

What are Photoshop Blending Modes? Photoshop blending modes (or sometimes called "blend modes") are used when editing with layers in Photoshop.  They affect how each layer behaves and interacts with the other layers ...

How to Make a Vintage Effect in Photoshop Photographers are often striving for a vintage or retro look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage effect, there are a couple of impo...

How to Resize Images for Facebook Did you know that you can export directly from Lightroom to the web, and to popular sites such as Facebook? Last week, I noticed that, when uploading images to Facebook, some of my i...

What is LAB Color Space? When it comes to digital editing, there are several different types of color spaces (or color modes).  A color space, in its most basic sense, is similar to a recipe: it is a computer's way o...

How to Get Beautiful Bokeh in Your Photos Bokeh is derived from the Japanese word boke, which literally means "blur" or "haze". So in relation to photography, Bokeh refers to the soft, creamy, out-of-focus and blurr...

Self Portrait Photography Ideas Throughout the years, artists have used self portraits as a form of expressing themselves, and as a way of perfecting their craft.  Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and even Leonardo da V...

What is Chromatic Aberration? Have you ever noticed how, in some of your shots, your subject and or certain elements of the image will have a colored halo around the edges?  This is known as "Chromatic Abberation" or...

How to Use the Lens Blur Filter in Photoshop to Create Shallow Depth of Field Are you looking to achieve that creamy, background blur and shallow depth of field in your image that you were not quite able to achieve i...

Golden Hour Photography You have probably heard the term “the Golden Hour” at least once, but chances are if you're a photographer, you’ve heard it a lot, because many photographers, myself included, are obsessed wit...

Understanding ISO in Photoghraphy There are a lot of written tutorials and videos about what ISO is and the various ways it affects your image. So often we are told something is important and that we should understan...

How to Create Double Exposure in Photoshop Double exposure is a photography technique that combines two images into one that can produce some incredibly beautiful results. Here at Pretty Presets & Actions, we are...

How to Use Photoshop Levels When we think of the Levels panel in Photoshop, the tendency might be to only think of highlights, midtones and shadows, but the Levels panel lets you dive into some seriously fine-tuned c...