Lightroom Tutorials

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...

How to Replace Color in Photoshop October and November are my favorite months of the year here in the Southeastern U.S.!  The heat and humidity have finally vanished, and I can get outdoors with my camera, without fe...

8 Ideas to Inspire Your Photography We all occasionally struggle with being creative.  Yes, even us photographers! Sometimes we just feel drained - like there is nothing creatively left to pull from. Sometimes we get...

sRGB vs Adobe RGB When browsing the settings on your DSLR, you may have come across the color profile settings in your camera's menu.  You will find 2 different setting choices: sRGB and Adobe RGB. In this post, we w...

How to Create a Photography Website Customers Will LOVE As photographers, we spend a lot of time marketing on social media.  After all, it seems that the entire population is addicted to their social sites!  While it...

What are Photoshop Actions? Photoshop Actions are a series of steps recorded by a creator, which can then be replayed and applied to images over and over without having to repeat every step.  They are a huge time sav...

Congratulations to our 2019 Summer Scholarship Winner! Over the past 6 months, we received many amazing essays written by some very incredibly talented students from around the world.  It was a pleasure to read all o...

How to Create Bokeh Lights Bokeh refers to the aesthetic quality of any lights in the out-of-focus area of your images.  This is NOT to be confused with a blurred shallow depth of field.  Bokeh is all about the shape...

Best Spring Photos - Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these beautiful Spring photos with you from our PRETTY photo community.  Thank you to everyone who submitted an image and c...

How to Travel with Camera Gear I recently traveled to Costa Rica to photograph a wedding, and I quickly realized that flying with all of my camera gear was a monumental undertaking. Below are a few tips that made my ...

Photographer Spotlight - Rebecca Cook Rebecca Cook is an exceptionally talented portrait photographer who often shares her amazing images in our Pretty Presets & Actions Facebook Group.  Rebecca always receives s...