How to Achieve a Light & Airy Edit in Photoshop Light and airy photos are VERY popular these days. This type of bright and airy image can be seen all over Facebook and Instagram feeds. How is this type of edit ...
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...
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...
Sky Replacement in Photoshop In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add a beautiful sky overlay behind a window using Photoshop with just a few easy steps! As photographers, we usually shoot our images either...
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...
How to Create a Water Reflection in Photoshop In this tutorial, I am going to show you the steps to add water and a water reflection to your photos using Photoshop. The goal is to take the an image photographed in a...
Using a Layer Mask in Photoshop When I first dove into the magical world of Photoshop, I was very intimidated. In fact, I became overwhelmed when I started exploring all of the buttons and options. For this reason,...
How to Color an Overlay in Photoshop We love to spoil our amazing photography community with some great freebies from time to time (Psst...if you're not already member of our community or mailing list, join now so yo...
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...
Understanding Contrast, Complementary Colors & Gradient Mapping in Photoshop When venturing into photography, there are many who say that the job of the photographer extends far beyond the realm of capturing the ...
We don't know about you, but capturing and editing images taken in the city are some of our favorites! We've created this blog post to show you how we created a dreamy city scene with the Pretty Film Photoshop Action...
Luxe Newborn Photoshop Actions Overview Hello Pretties! We have exciting news...Pretty Actions now offers an amazing new set of Photoshop actions for all your newborn editing needs! The Luxe Newborn Photoshop Action...
We're going to talk a little bit about using the Let it Snow Action and Brush Collection for Photoshop, Creative Cloud and Photoshop Elements. Excited? We are too! First thing's first, let's talk about installing yo...
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 ...
Hi Pretties!  In this tutorial we're going to show you how to remove the automatic pop-up message that sometimes appears at the end of the actions you run.  We love these messages, they are very helpful when you're f...
Adobe Photoshop is able to aid modern-day photographers in editing and enhancing their photographs. There are a variety of reasons as to how the software has changed society; however, the most prevalently discussed ...
Alice in Wonderland Themed Photoshoot Oh, the joy of playing dress up! There’s just something about slipping on a costume and pretending to be someone else that holds appeal for all ages. So it didn’t take much pe...