The Ultimate Guide on How to Add a Border in Photoshop
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The Ultimate Guide on How to Add a Border in Photoshop

Using Photoshop to add borders to your photo is faster and easier than you think. Plus, there are several Photoshop borders to choose from, so you can add custom flair! Read on to learn how to add a border using Photoshop. How to Create a Solid Border Sometimes it’s best to choose a solid color…

Simple Tips for Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush Tool
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Simple Tips for Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush Tool

[textad]Inside this tutorial you’re going to learn how to use the Lightroom Adjustment Brush tool. If you are looking for an editing shortcut – you’ll love our Cole’s Classroom adjustment brush presets!  Click here right now to check em out, they are on sale today![/textad] Have you ever had a photo that needed some adjusting…

How to Seamlessly Match Skin Tones in Photoshop
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How to Seamlessly Match Skin Tones in Photoshop

  Regarding photography, human skin presents the most complex and varied range of colors of any subject. While it’s possible to easily match skin tones by eye, our eyes are imperfect and often play tricks on us. When it comes to how to match skin tones in photoshop, a more technical approach is necessary. Today,…

How to Seamlessly Select Hair in Photoshop
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How to Seamlessly Select Hair in Photoshop

Photoshop is a fantastic tool for many purposes, such as editing wedding photos or creating graphics for logos and other marketing materials. Another everyday use of Photoshop is editing people onto different backgrounds, but hair makes this extremely difficult. It’s wispy and has hundreds of intricate pixels that need to be fit inside a single…

How to Easily Make Eyes Pop in Photoshop
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How to Easily Make Eyes Pop in Photoshop

Have you ever seen a photo that makes you instantly jealous of the model’s eyes? Well, believe it or not, most of this is due to post-processing using eye Photoshop – and it’s effortless to do yourself! If you’re wondering how to make eyes pop in photoshop eye, we’ll teach you how to do just…

How to Easily Delete a Lightroom Catalog
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How to Easily Delete a Lightroom Catalog

Before we learn how to delete a Lightroom catalog, let’s address one crucial question. What is a catalog in Lightroom? A Lightroom catalog is the location responsible for housing your Lightroom photos. It also stores image previews and other essential information. Your Lightroom catalog is usually on your hard drive. But you can choose to…

Top Photo Stitching Software for Breathtaking Panoramas
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Top Photo Stitching Software for Breathtaking Panoramas

Photo stitching to create panoramas is a great way to take a set of images, sometimes thousands, and create a new and exciting picture out of them. For instance, according to Business Insider, one of the world’s most large scale photos was created using panoramic photography, stitched together using billions of pixels. The photo is…

How to Use Curves in Photoshop
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How to Use Curves in Photoshop

Even with the best camera and skillful exposure adjustments, your photograph can still turn out looking flat or dull. Sometimes the light isn’t quite right for that vibrant image you were imagining (like the one above).  However, there is a perfect tool to enhance your image during post-processing: curves.  How to Use Curves in Photoshop…

How to Add Creative Textures in Photoshop
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How to Add Creative Textures in Photoshop

Adding textures to your photographs during edits is one of the most creative techniques you can use to add an extra dimension to your photos.  Textural overlaying is a fun and easy process that lets you have the creative freedom to improve your photo edits. But when done incorrectly, you can end up with undesirable…

How to Edit Amazing Videos in Lightroom
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How to Edit Amazing Videos in Lightroom

When it comes to editing, Lightroom is a popular creative platform from Adobe. We know it’s possible to tweak and touch up photos, but can we edit video in Lightroom? Not only is it possible, but we can also walk you through how to edit video in Lightroom! Importing Video to Lightroom Start by importing…

How to Create Actions in Photoshop to Make Your Edits Pop
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How to Create Actions in Photoshop to Make Your Edits Pop

Photoshop Actions are a convenient feature. An “action” is a series of tasks you can save and apply to any file you want to edit. You can use this feature to automate some repetitive workflows and get more consistent results when editing images in batches. Photoshop comes with some predefined actions, but you can create…

Master Image Culling: How to Use Photo Mechanic
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Master Image Culling: How to Use Photo Mechanic

If you regularly take hundreds (or even thousands of photos), you know all too well the frustration of sifting through the images. But what if we told you there was a way to make this task more manageable with a tool called Photo Mechanic? You may be reluctant to add another photo application to your…

What is a Contact Sheet and How Do You Make One?
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What is a Contact Sheet and How Do You Make One?

Making a contact sheet isn’t complicated, but whether you’re going through Windows or using options like Contact Sheet II through Adobe Photoshop, creating contact sheets does require a few steps. Here’s your step-by-step guide to how to make contact sheets. Photo by rpavich licensed under CC BY 2.0  How To Make A Contact Sheet Here’s…

How to Apply Sun Rays in Photoshop
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How to Apply Sun Rays in Photoshop

The sun’s rays are one of the most beautiful details about an early morning stroll or a beautiful sunset. Yet despite their beauty, light rays are often challenging to capture with a camera alone, which is why many photographers resort to adding in rays with Photoshop during their editing process.  Creating rays in Adobe Photoshop…

How to Make a Panorama in Photoshop
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How to Make a Panorama in Photoshop

Panoramic photos are a cool way to showcase seamless images of more expansive physical spaces. Traditional panoramic views are typically of landscapes and cityscapes, but you don’t have to limit your photos to just those.  Most photographers create these wider images by stitching together several photos horizontally or vertically from different angles using Adobe Photoshop…

How to Open Raw Files the Easy Way
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How to Open Raw Files the Easy Way

Since the early 2000s, the raw file format has produced some of the highest quality images possible. Digital cameras typically produce images in the JPEG or raw format. Many programs recognize JPEG, but to view raw files is a different story. A raw image is large and stores more information. Different camera brands produce varying…