Lightroom Tutorials

Enhancing your iPhone and Android Phone Images with Lightroom Presets “The best camera is the one you have with you.” I’d like to attribute that quote to its source but it has been so widely heralded, I can’t even ...

New Adobe Lightroom CC App - Questions & Answers We know that some of you are thinking about - or have already decided to start using the NEW Lightroom CC App recently released by Adobe. We know that many of you...

Installing Presets in Lightroom CC Adobe recently released a new version of Lightroom - Lightroom CC.  This version of Lightroom has a web-based application, mobile application, and a desktop version.  Currently, thi...

Are you Over Editing Your Photos? When I first discovered the world of editing and post-processing, I felt like I had gone to school for 13 years and become a plastic surgeon overnight.  The power I had at my fingert...

How to Make Eyes Pop in Photoshop Our 'Eye Sparkle' Action from the Pure Color Workflow collection is absolutely fabulous at giving you tack sharp results and stunning eyes with just a click of your mouse.  With opti...

How to Brighten and Make Eyes Pop in Lightroom Eyes are generally one of the first things we notice in a portrait.  Since they are what we notice first, having beautiful, bright and sharp eyes that pop is critical to...

25+ Incredible Kissing Photos While scrolling through our community last week we found so many pictures with the sweetest kisses! From babies, siblings to engagement pictures so we thought we'd run a kissing photo c...

One Lens Photography: Making One Lens Work For You One of the most common questions asked by those interested in pursuing photography is, “What lens should I buy to start out with?”  It’s a tough choice and there are...

Balancing a Photography Business, Family Life & Full Time Job For many of us, photography isn’t our full-time job.  Heck, it might not even be a money earning thing for some of you and you only do it for fun (an...

Newborn Photography Props When it comes to newborn photography, I am always thinking about props!  I admit that I am a "propaholic" and I bet most other newborn photographers are too! Seriously, I can find newborn p...

Pixieset Review Photographers are always looking for the latest and greatest ways to present and deliver photos to their clients.  You can’t do two photography related google searches on the internet these days witho...

Lightroom Brush Tool Keyboard Shortcuts At Pretty Presets, almost everything we do is about helping you save time in Lightroom.  We want you to spend less time on the computer and more time with those that you love. ...

How to Make a Vintage Effect in Photoshop Photographers are often striving for a vintage or retro look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage effect, there are a couple of impo...

Fairy Wing Overlays: How to Change Colors in Photoshop Hello pretties!  I know you're all excited about the Fairyland Photoshop Collection coming out (I will admit...I've been playing with it for hours already!) and ...

How to Resize Images for Facebook Did you know that you can export directly from Lightroom to the web, and to popular sites such as Facebook? Last week, I noticed that, when uploading images to Facebook, some of my i...

How to Photograph the Night Sky A little over a year ago I moved to Alaska where the Northern Lights are often visible from September to March.  I will never forget the first time I saw them “dancing” in the sky. Nig...

Sigma 85mm 1.4 Art Lens Review It’s difficult to hold the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens in your hands without feeling like you’re holding something special.  It’s as if you’re holding an artifact from history that...

What is LAB Color Space? When it comes to digital editing, there are several different types of color spaces (or color modes).  A color space, in its most basic sense, is similar to a recipe: it is a computer's way o...

Understanding the Exposure Triangle I have a secret.  Well, after this article, it won’t be a secret anymore.  But I will feel better after sharing this with all of you.  I know there will be some of you that can rel...

Night Photography Taking photos at night is a unique practice filled with plenty of deep colors, exciting lighting options and the perfect balance of exposure. While night time photography may take a little longer t...