Lightroom Tutorials

How to Use the Patch Tool & Smart Blur Filter to Retouch Skin There are many tools you can use to retouch skin in Photoshop.  Two of my favorites are the Patch Tool and the Smart Blur Filter that will not only sp...

iPhone Food Photography Have you ever whipped out your iPhone to take a picture of your dessert so you could share it with a friend?  Are you guilty of taking a selfie with your favorite beverage?  Mobile phone camer...

How to Get Sharper Photos Using Manual Focus In order to achieve sharp focus on your images, you can set the focusing mode on your lens to manual focus.  Manual focus is not ideal for ALL situations, but if you have ...

6 Important Lessons I Learned from Photography I am fairly new to the photography world and even newer to the business side of photography.  I have been shooting for about four years, and have been self-employed as a...

3 Reasons to Use Lightroom Brushes Whenever Possible Lightroom’s Brush Tool is an invaluable tool that I use ALL THE TIME!  Can you believe that at one time Lightroom didn’t even have a brush? Lightroom’s Adjustment ...

How to Find the Best Lighting for Outdoor Photos A couple of weeks ago my daughter and two of her friends wanted me to take some photos of them.  I was thrilled to do it.  They are 13 and any chance I have to take ph...

How to Remove Dust Spots in Lightroom The Lightroom spot healing tool saved my life! Well it didn't LITERALLY save my life (as in bring-me-back-from-the-dead kind of save my life).  But it did save me TONS of time as...

(Image above edited with Velvet Color from the Clean Edit Portrait Workflow) 6 Tips for Photographing Your Subjects in Public If you prefer to shoot in natural light, you may not always have the luxury of photographi...

How to Enhance a Boring Photography Location I’m pretty sure we have all been in this situation, at least once: you’re hired for a shoot, and the location is far from aesthetically pleasing. Whether you’re shooting p...

6 Posing Solutions for Every Photographer In the past, before my sessions, I would look for fun poses that fit my client.  I would then get to the session and remember about 20% of them.  I finally started writing do...

Best Wedding Photos - Pretty Presets Photo Challenge Winners We are so excited to share these beautiful wedding photos with you from our PRETTY photo community.  Thank you to everyone who submitted an image and congr...

Sharpening in Lightroom Day 4 of "4 Days to Sharper Photos" When shooting in RAW, you may find that your images tend to look sharp in the LCD preview on your camera, but soft when you bring them in to Lightroom. This...

How to Use Selective Color in Photoshop When you hear the words "selective" and "color" side by side, you may get a little bit nervous, but I promise you I am not talking about the 1990's selective color photography ...

How to Whiten Teeth in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to whiten teeth in Photoshop.  There are several ways to do this, but my preferred way to whiten teeth uses a combination of three adjustment layers in...

Donating Your Photography Services to Auctions & Raffles It's highly likely you won't get through your photography career without someone asking you to donate your work or a photo session to an auction. Personall...

What Do Photography Clients Really Want? Last year, I conducted a few surveys of past and prospective clients to find out what they really wanted.  What I discovered is that they overwhelmingly preferred an all-inclu...

5 Tips for Better Lifestyle Photography I cannot say that I have fully mastered the lifestyle secrets for photographing my clients, but I have figured out how to create beautiful everyday lifestyle photos and self-po...

What to Wear for a Photoshoot Isn’t it absolutely fabulous when you get to a photoshoot and your clients are dressed so perfectly it looks like they just walked out of a magazine? You get this immediate sensation of,...

How to Create a DYI Rainbow Light Filter A while back, a photographer friend of mine made a really neat DIY rainbow light filter using diffraction glasses, and I wanted to give it a try myself so that I could show yo...

How to Increase Contrast in Photoshop If you want to add contrast to an image in Photoshop, there are several ways you can do so, and in this tutorial we will show you all 4 different methods. Let's start with the qu...