10 Photography Tips for Beginners The world of digital photography is vast and exciting, but if you are new to photography, your camera manual alone may seem overwhelming, much less all of the information you’ll find...
How to Brighten Eyes In Photoshop Do you want to your portrait subject's eyes to look their very best? I will show you step-by-step how to easily clean up and brighten the eye are in Photoshop for a clean and natura...
How to Use the Photoshop High Pass Filter Photoshop has several sharpening filters built in, but one of the fastest and easiest methods for sharpening your images in Photoshop is to use the High Pass filter in conjun...
How to Create a Vignette in Photoshop Adding a subtle vignette to your image is a great way to bring more focus to your subject. This effect can be achieved in-camera but is more often done during post-processing. W...
Clarity Vs. Contrast In this post, we will look at the differences between clarity and contrast, to help you know which one to use and when. This post uses Adobe Camera Raw, but the same principles apply in both Lig...
How to Use a Reverse Adapter Ring for Macro Photography Freelensing is a fun and popular photography technique that allows you to create dreamy macro images by taking your 50mm lens off of your camera, flipping it ar...
How to Blend Sky Overlays There are so many different techniques to help you achieve more realistic skies when using sky and cloud overlays. In this tutorial I will show you how to blend your overlays with the origi...
  A question that has come up on more than one occasion on our Pretty Photoshop Actions Facebook page is how to add text to an image in Photoshop. As you can imagine, there are many ins and outs when applying text t...
Why Cropping Is So Important Choosing the correct crop, whether its in camera while you are shooting, or in post-processing when you edit (cropping in Photoshop or Lightroom), can completely make or break your image....
Today I want to talk to you about storing your Photoshop Actions somewhere besides your computer. Â For example, in your cloud storage, or on an external hard drive or jump drive. This is really, really important for ...
Understanding Shutter Speed and Aperture Shutter speed and aperture are usually discussed in terms of how they affect the exposure of an image, but as part of our ongoing series on obtaining the sharpest possible ima...
Ah, spring and summer! Two prime times of year for photos! However, the lush green foliage and warm temperatures can make balancing the greens in foliage and the warm tones in skin a little tricky, but in this video,...
Have you ever tried to achieve soft, dreamy images in Photoshop/Adobe Camera RAW, but ended up with images that turned out fuzzy and seemingly out of focus? One way to avoid that scenario is to balance Clarity with...
 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
 THE BLACK AND WHITE ADJUSTMENT PANEL If you are a fan of black and white images, but want a bit more control than simply desaturating your image, then look no further than the Black and White Panel! In this short v...
 When I first started using Photoshop actions, I had already been using Photoshop for about a year. I understood the absolute basics of things like Levels, Curves and how to crop, but I had never given actions a tr...
 Have you noticed that, after opening your image in Photoshop, when you use the Navigator to zoom in and out, your image is grainy and/or blurry? In this Photoshop tutorial, we will walk you through how to fix this ...