Lightroom Tutorials

What is Backlight? In photography terms, backlight is when your subject is illuminated from behind.  This means you will place the light source behind your subject and in front of you (the photographer).  Having the ...

How to Remove Virtual Copies in Lightroom Is Your Lightroom Library View Cluttered with Lots of Virtual Copies? Do you have ten versions of the same image because you couldn't decide which preset or look to use?  Don...

6 Newborn Photography Tips (To Help You Rock Your First Session) Newborns are sweet and squishy and oh so cuddly, who could resist photographing them?  You tell yourself, “It can’t be that hard, they just lay there!...

How to Achieve a Light & Airy Edit in Photoshop Light and airy photos are VERY popular these days.  This type of bright and airy image can be seen all over Facebook and Instagram feeds.  How is this type of edit ...

I've been experimenting the past few months.  Some may say it's a little on the risky side. I have to agree.  Curious?  Well, I've been freelensing. What is Freelensing? Freelensing simply means taking a photo with y...

We thought we'd try something new and do a Quiet Time Photo Challenge! These photos express a peaceful, calm, or tranquil moment in time. We loved seeing your interpretation of "Quiet Time" and seeing your beautiful...

Using Leading Lines to Compose Better Photos When it comes to composition, I’m sure you’ve heard all about the rule of thirds.  Maybe you’ve even gone so far as to learn a bit about the golden ratio.  But one area of...

Understanding ISO in Photoghraphy There are a lot of written tutorials and videos about what ISO is and the various ways it affects your image. So often we are told something is important and that we should understan...

How to Create Double Exposure in Photoshop Double exposure is a photography technique that combines two images into one that can produce some incredibly beautiful results. Here at Pretty Presets & Actions, we are...

Lightroom Classic vs Lightroom Desktop App Which Version is Best for You? With multiple desktop versions of Lightroom (Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop App) currently available for purchase, it can be pretty c...

Lightroom Update April 2018 Lightroom added some new features in it's recent update to Adobe Lightroom Classic CC and the Adobe Lightroom CC app.  These updates include some simple changes and some big changes.  Let'...

How to Crop Portrait Photos for MORE Impact! Get it right in camera, so you don't need to crop your images in post processing!  We’ve all heard this before — from art school professors and workshop hosts to conferenc...

9 Lightroom Develop Module Shortcuts At Pretty Presets, almost everything we do is about saving time in Lightroom.  We want you to spend less time on the computer and more time with those that you love.  That is why ...

Using Lightroom's Brush Tool Do you shy away from using Lightroom's Brush Tool because you are not sure what or where it is?  Are you using the Pretty Presets Brushes but not sure if you are using them to their fulle...

Volunteer Photography (How to Give Back) Using your photography talent to make money is great.  Giving back through photography has literally changed my life, and will change yours too! How I Got Started as a Volunt...

Layering Lightroom Presets Not ALL presets can be layered.  But, Pretty Presets for Lightroom has several Workflow Preset Collections that have presets that can be layered or stacked together.  Today I want to show y...

Clean Edit Portrait Workflow Hey, Pretties! Have you heard the good news? Pretty Presets for Lightroom has just released its newest collection and you’re going to drool over what’s in it! Introducing the Clean Edit P...

How to Use Photoshop Levels When we think of the Levels panel in Photoshop, the tendency might be to only think of highlights, midtones and shadows, but the Levels panel lets you dive into some seriously fine-tuned c...

10 Photography Tips for Beginners The world of digital photography is vast and exciting, but if you are new to photography, your camera manual alone may seem overwhelming, much less all of the information you’ll find...

I can't get over all the entries this past week.  We had over 140 in the album alone with at least another 40 shared within our Pretty Presets Facebook group feed.  It was so hard to narrow it down to one winner.  In...