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 ...

6 Tips for Photographing Your Clients in Public If you prefer to shoot in natural light, you may not always have the luxury of photographing your clients in a private space. If you are photographing them in public, t...

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 congra...

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. Th...

Donating Your Photography Sevices 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. Personally...

Lightroom Zoom This is going to be a fairly simple and straight-forward tutorial, however many times these simple tips can be the most helpful! When I was first learning Lightroom, I often wanted to zoom in on a part...

Top 3 Most Downloaded Lightroom Presets Photographers in our Pretty Presets community are always asking us what our best selling presets are.  Below, we have included our top three most downloaded Lightroom preset co...

How to Make Photos Look Soft & Dreamy Are you wondering how you can achieve dreamy, soft edit in Lightroom? While there are many different ways to achieve this sought-after look, one way that is quick and easy (a...

Lightroom Export Settings for Print Exporting images can sometimes get confusing.  Let’s face it, there are lots of different settings to choose and endless combinations of numbers to input. So today I am going to br...

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-inclus...

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 is 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,...

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...

Food Photography If you’re a beginner to food photography, the idea of making food look appetizing may seem a simple one, however, there is a little bit more to the process when photographing your edible subject. By ...

How to Edit Car Photos in Lightroom Unedited car pictures can often lack color and emotion. It could be because they were shot at the wrong settings, or simply that they are straight out of the camera. Our solution ...

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...

Low Light Photography: How to Take Great Photos in Low Light According to the internet, magic and whimsy happens at golden hour. A home is not complete without huge windows that frame the gorgeous morning sun, and ne...

Working Between Lightroom and Photoshop Many photographers, both professional and hobbyists, have more than one editing programs. And, more often than not those two programs are Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop or Photo...

Box Photography - How to Set Up and Shoot an In the Box Photo Collage Our great friend and amazing photographer, Tammy Porter set up and photographed this beautiful and super fun In the Box photo image for a school a...