How to Sharpen Images in Photoshop (Quickly & Flawlessly)
How to Sharpen Images in Photoshop (Quickly & Flawlessly) Are you struggling with sharpening your images in Photoshop or looking for a quick and simple way to sharpen your photo in just a few seconds (with no fu...
Creating a Floral Typography Text Effect in Photoshop
How to Create a Floral Typography Text Effect in Photoshop Typography, the art form of arranging text to make an appealing piece of artwork, is often forgotten but quite beautiful. I love to use Photoshop which makes...
How to Green-Up Grass in Lightroom
How to Make Grass Greener in Lightroom The HSL Panel in Lightroom doesn't get talked about or used very often - especially the Hue section of HSL Panel. Usually moving the sliders in the Hue Panel can create some in...
How to Make a Diptych in Photoshop
How to Make a Diptych in Photoshop Here is a quick method for creating a two image collage (aka a "diptych") in Photoshop. You can easily add as many images as you would like using this same method, but for this tuto...
Flattering Camera Angles for Portrait Photography
Flattering Camera Angles for Portrait Photography Let’s be honest. Most of us have had times when we head out to a photo shoot and our head isn’t really there. We're just there to shoot, be done and go home. Sometime...
RAW Image Format (Everything You Need to Know!)
RAW Image Format (Everything You Need to Know) At some point, you are going to be introduced to the RAW file format, whether it's through an online forum or website, or face-to-face with your photographer buddies. M...
7 Instagram Marketing Tips for Photographers (You Need to Know)
7 Instagram Marketing Tips for Photographers (You Need to Know) These days, Instagram is an essential marketing component for any photography business! Here are 7 tips to help you gain more followers and maximize yo...
How to Blur Background in Lightroom (3 Different Methods)
How to Blur Background in Lightroom Have you ever have those times when you wish you’d shot something with a wider aperture, so your image would have that dreamy background blur behind your subject? Or maybe like me,...
6 Inexpensive Ways to Advertise Your Photography Business
6 Inexpensive Ways to Advertise Your Photography Business When it comes to advertising fo your photography business, the amount of options can seem overwhelming, and oftentimes very expensive. If you are just startin...
Free Referral Cards for Your Photography Business
Free Photography Referral Cards from Pretty Presets for Lightroom Are you just getting started with your photography business? We would love to help you! We have two beautiful referral card options that you can down...
3 Tips for Getting More Photography Referrals
3 Tips for Getting More Photography Referrals With any small business, especially a photography business, word of mouth and referrals play a critical role in generating new business, as well as sustaining repeat clie...
Planning Tips for a Successful Holiday Photography Season
Planning Tips for a Successful Holiday Photo Sessions It’s almost that time of year again for… Yes, you guessed it -- FAMILY HOLIDAY SESSIONS! The end of the year is quickly approaching and now is the time to make su...
7 Indispensable Tips for BRAND NEW Photographers
7 Tips Every BRAND NEW Photographer Should Know I know photography can be so overwhelming! When I started out I thought I would never be able to achieve the images I wanted. Even now there are some days that I still ...
Coordinating Outfits for Family Photos
Coordinating Outfits for Family Pictures When I decided to start my photography business, I had no idea that being a personal wardrobe consultant would be part of the job. I almost always wear clothes that are comfor...
How to Use Split Toning in Lightroom (For Beginners)
How to Use Split Toning in Lightroom You love the look of your favorite presets, but have you ever looked under the hood to see how they are created? Lightroom is a masterful tool and its split toning panel is one of...
How to Use Snapshots & Virtual Copies in Lightroom
How to Use Snapshots & Virtual Copies in Lightroom These virtual copies and snapshots get mixed up in Lightroom all the time. Today I will explain what each of these are when you should use each one. You can fol...
How to Use the Lightroom Book Module
How to Use the Lightroom Book Module The Lightroom Book Module is a super-user-friendly feature you can use to create photo books quickly in Lightroom. After you create your photo book, you can export it to the web, ...
Editing with the Dark & Moody Millennium Preset Collection
Editing with the Dark and Moody Millennium Preset Collection Hello, PRETTIES! We've got something new that we're so excited to share with you today! Our brand new Dark & Moody Millenium Presets have just been rel...
3 Awesome Ways to Use Lightroom Snapshots
How to Use Lightroom Snapshots Snapshots are this ingenious little feature in Lightroom (that is often overlooked and unused), which allows you to take a snapshop or "bookmark" an editing moment-in-time so you can qu...
How to Apply Leaf Overlays in Photoshop (For Spectacular Fall Images)
How to Apply Leaf Overlays in Photoshop In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily add beautiful Autumn leaves to your images in Photoshop using Pretty Action's Falling Leaves Overlays & Action Collection to...
Lightroom Brush Flow & Density (What's the Difference?)
Understanding Lightroom Brush Flow & Density The adjustment brush is a very powerful tool for making isolated changes to your image in Lightroom. I use portrait adjustment brushes ALL THE TIME for smoothing skin,...