Lightroom Tutorials

6 Tips for Using On-Camera Flash For me, personally, and for a lot of the photographers I know, we all love natural light.  However, sometimes you will find that you just NEED to use a flash.  For example, when shoot...

Understanding High-Key VS Low-Key Lighting In this post, we will look at two different, yet very popular, lighting techniques: HIGH-KEY and LOW-KEY.  High key lighting is just what you would imagine - very bright and...

How to Use Library Filters to Sort, Search & Manage Images in Lightroom Lightroom is an amazing program, designed to help you manage thousands and thousands of images, as well as quickly edit and process them for...

20+ Top #ILovePretty Photos Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these beautiful photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  Below are our favorites from t...

How to Do a Head Swap in Photoshop Anyone who has ever picked up a camera and taken family or group photos has had to deal with closed eyes, turned heads, unwanted expressions, and other things that can cause a great...

Do You Want to Turn Your Photography Hobby Into a Career? If you’ve been enjoying your photography as a hobby and decided you’re finally ready to take the leap and do it as your FULL TIME job, there are plenty of thi...

Basics of Editing with Brushes, Radial Gradients & Linear Gradients in Lightroom Lightroom's brush tool, radial gradient and linear gradient masks are the perfect way to add a certain effect to a specific area of...

20+ Top Photos of 2020 Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these incredible photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  It's always so hard to narrow it d...

9 Things NOT to Do During a Portrait Session Being a good portrait photographer takes more than just shooting beautiful photos.  The portrait experience begins from the moment the client first contacts you, and doesn...

Understanding Lightroom's Sharpening Sliders Sharpening in Lightroom isn't something that's talked about very often.  It isn't one of the exciting things that makes your photo beautiful or transforms it in amazing wa...

Working With Smart Previews in Lightroom Lightroom was designed to easily manage thousands of images, but should we be housing thousands of images on our computer hard drives?  Most users do not have the space and ev...

How to Edit Interior Photos in Lightroom In my previous post, I listed my top 5 tips for taking beautiful interior photos.  I talked about the importance of being detailed, cropping in camera, etc. Following those ti...

How to Install Photoshop Actions Welcome to Pretty Actions for Photoshop!  We have the best Photoshop action install instructions and video tutorials which you can find below. The good news is that installing Photosh...

How to Change Hair Color in Photoshop Pictures and photography have become an essential tool in everyone’s day to day lives.  Professional photography, especially, has high standards when it comes to quality of image...

Congratulations to our 2020 Photoshop Scholarship Winner! We received many amazing essays written by some very incredibly talented students from around the world.  It was a pleasure to read all of the creative and in...

One Click Presets (And How to Adjust Them in Lightroom) I have been a professional photographer for ten years, and in those ten years, I have found very few one-click edit presets.  They come VERY few and far between...

Image edited with the Crystal Springs preset from the NEW Clean & Colorful Millennium Preset Collection. Importance of White Balance When Using Lightroom Presets White Balance is your friend, and can DRASTICALLY ...

How to Create a Christmas Card in Lightroom + Free Christmas Word Overlays This time of year many of us will be taking a Christmas Card photo with the intent to send it out to all of our friends and family.  Sometime...

How to Calibrate Your Lens Getting the perfect focus is one of the most-asked about questions in our Facebook group.  It can be frustrating when you feel like you are trying everything you can and your photos still a...

Editing with the Clean & Colorful Millennium Preset Collection Hello Pretty Family!  We are super excited to share with you our BRAND NEW Lightroom Preset Collection!  Just like all our other collections, this on...