Lightroom Tutorials

Adding Snow in Lightroom, Creative Cloud and Lightroom Mobile Are you ready for some snowy, Winter fun!!  With the Pretty Presets Winter Wonderland Lightroom Collection, you have the power to unleash as little or as ...

Managing Wedding Photos in Lightroom I don't proclaim to be a professional wedding photographer, however I have personally photographed many weddings and wedding receptions, and I can promise you that those events pr...

How to Add Contrast in Lightroom If you shoot  in "RAW," meaning you use the RAW file format instead of JPEG, then your images probably come out of your camera looking a little "blah."  Raw files are naturally void o...

How to Fix Under Eye Circles in Lightroom Under-eye circles - everyone has them.  Some people more than others.  Lighting and/or direction can also cause them to look worse than they really are, so I very often use a...

How to Backup Your Lightroom Catalog In my previous post I explained what the Lightroom Catalog was - the compilation of all the images you have imported into Lightroom.  This Lightroom catalog file (.lrcat) is not o...

How to Use the Lightroom Clone Tool Photoshop has long been the tool of choice for large cloning jobs.  However, in recent years, Lightroom has really made HUGE improvements to it's cloning and healing tools in Light...

5 Tips for a Faster Lightroom Workflow As much as I love Lightroom and photography, I don’t want to spend endless hours editing there.  I am a busy mom and my time is valuable.  Today I want to share with you 5 aweso...

How to Use Lightroom Brushes to Edit Newborns Recently I had the privilege of photographing my grand-nephew (I prefer saying it that way over "great-nephew" because it makes me feel too old), and editing the images w...

How Lightroom Changed Photography For those wondering if there are editng options other than Photoshop, the simple answer is "Yes there are! Lightroom is an amazing tool and it has changed the lives of photographers....

How to Retouch & Edit Senior Portraits in Lightroom Retouching skin is an art form and retouching senior skin takes special skill.  While teenage skin is young and vibrant it comes with its own set of challenges....

Installing Presets in Lightroom CC Adobe recently released a new version of Lightroom - Lightroom CC.  This version of Lightroom has a web-based application, mobile application, and a desktop version.  Currently, thi...

How to Brighten and Make Eyes Pop in Lightroom Eyes are generally one of the first things we notice in a portrait.  Since they are what we notice first, having beautiful, bright and sharp eyes that pop is critical to...

Lightroom Brush Tool Keyboard Shortcuts At Pretty Presets, almost everything we do is about helping you save time in Lightroom.  We want you to spend less time on the computer and more time with those that you love. ...

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...

How to Create Lightroom Print Templates Lightroom is an amazingly powerful program.  We all love it for the many ways that it saves us time in editing and the simplicity of using it to edit images. Usually, our main ...

How to Remove Virtual Copies in Lightroom Is Your Lightroom Library View Cluttered with Lots of Virtual Copies? Do you have ten versions of the same image because you couldn't decide which preset or look to use?  Don...

How to Crop Portrait Photos for MORE Impact! Get it right in camera, so you don't need to crop your images in post processing!  We’ve all heard this before — from art school professors and workshop hosts to conferenc...

9 Lightroom Develop Module Shortcuts At Pretty Presets, almost everything we do is about saving time in Lightroom.  We want you to spend less time on the computer and more time with those that you love.  That is why ...

Using Lightroom's Brush Tool Do you shy away from using Lightroom's Brush Tool because you are not sure what or where it is?  Are you using the Pretty Presets Brushes but not sure if you are using them to their fulle...