Lightroom Tutorials

First Look Wedding Photos To do a first look or not to do a first look, that is the question!  When I sit down with my couples for our very first wedding consultation, I bring up the subject of a first look.  Some h...

Photographing Wedding Details When you have a DIY bride, you know you will have plenty of detail photos to take.  This was the case with one of my recent weddings.  Lisa, the bride and my client, was meticulous about...

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 Be a Perfect Second Shooter at a Wedding Before I photographed a wedding on my own, I worked as a second shooter for a couple of different photographers, just to get a feel for everything that wedding photogra...

Snow Photography For some of you, photographing in the snow may be easier because you are used to being around all that white stuff during the Winter months.  I live in Georgia, and we rarely get more than a couple o...

How to Photograph a Bride Getting Ready Photos of the couple getting ready are often part of what the bride wants on the day of the wedding.  Notice I said what the bride wants! Generally the groom doesn’t care!  Whe...

How to Become a Wedding Photographer Welcome to the first, in a series of posts where I will be sharing everything I know about shooting weddings and becoming a successful wedding photographer! In each post I will co...

Wedding Photography Contracts Nobody likes to talk about contracts, but they’re a necessary part of running a photography business.  And even if you do not consider yourself a “professional” quite yet… you should sti...

Engagement Photo Session Tips Engagement sessions for me can sometimes feel like a 2-hour pressure cooker where I am constantly trying to figure out what’s next - what location, pose, and lens can I use to create as ...

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...

Wedding Photography Consultation As a photographer and small business owner, our business, brand and our personal identity are endlessly linked.  There is no big corporate logo to hide behind and no sales or public r...

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 Crop in Photoshop There are several ways you can crop an image in Photoshop, but the most straightforward method to get a precise crop is by using the Crop Tool.  In this tutorial, I will walk you through how ...

How to Use Lightroom Spot Removal It used to be that anytime I wanted to remove an unwanted object, stray hair, or skin imperfection I had to take the image over to Photoshop.  I don't know about you, but I want and ...

Storybook Photography Setting up and shooting a storybook photography session can be quite exhilerating and fun, but can also fairly stressful if you are unprepared.  I've put together this tutorial based on my exper...

How to Use Photoshop Levels The Levels Panel in Photoshop is a powerful tool that allows you to edit tonal range, as well as color.  In this tutorial, we will look at how to use the Levels panel to edit tonal range -...

Congratulations to our 2018 Fall Scholarship Winner! During the past 6 months, Pretty Photoshop Actions received many essays written by current and prospective college students from around the U.S and Canada.  It wa...

How to Fix Photos in Photoshop It’s difficult to imagine a world without Photoshop and how it can be used to fix and enhance photos.  By enabling creators to use their imagination, Photoshop has revolutionized the ar...

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...