How to Make a Light Box at Home in 6 Easy and Quick Steps

How to Make a Light Box at Home in 6 Easy and Quick Steps

Are you interested in taking professional catalog photos? What about high-quality pictures for your online store? If so, a light box (also known as a photography tent) is a must-have accessory for achieving a shot worthy of a place of honor on your website. What Is a Light Box? Light boxes are used to produce…

Darktable vs. Lightroom: The Battle of Editing Software
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Darktable vs. Lightroom: The Battle of Editing Software

Introducing Adobe Lightroom: Everything To Know Adobe Lightroom is more than just a photo editor. It’s a family of tools designed to use across a variety of platforms — Windows, iOS, macOS, among others — to save, organize, share, and manipulate your entire photo collection. It blends the basics of a image editor with a…

What’s the Difference Between DNG vs. RAW Files

What’s the Difference Between DNG vs. RAW Files

Introducing RAW Files RAW files are uncompressed, meaning they’re in the original form directly from your camera. RAW images are “lossless,” so they have the most quality, allowing for small edits or large scale prints. It contains so much more information about the conditions of the photo than a compressed file, giving editors more freedom…

How to Brighten Eyes in Lightroom With One Simple Trick
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How to Brighten Eyes in Lightroom With One Simple Trick

It’s not uncommon to have a photo that needs some touch up due to under eye circles, or dark circles under the client’s eye. There are several ways to edit something like this, and today I’m going to show you my favorite, quick method. My Easy Fix My favorite method for fixing under eye circles is…

My 3 Step Guide to Capturing Lightning Photos

My 3 Step Guide to Capturing Lightning Photos

My 3 Step Guide to Capturing Lightning Photos Lightning, it’s one of the most intense forms of power that Mother Nature can produce other than your tornadoes and hurricanes. It flashes the earth almost 1.4 billion times per year all over the world, and it is just waiting to be photographed! In this article I…

The Ultimate Introduction to Shooting Sports Photography
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The Ultimate Introduction to Shooting Sports Photography

Do you thrive on competition?  Love the energy, excitement, and physicality of sports?  Then sports photography might be the right play for you (pun fully intended!) There are lots of great reasons to make sports photography your passion.  Your kids, your job, or your desire for a new market.  Or maybe you just love playing,…

How to Get Shallow Depth of Field to Your Photos!

How to Get Shallow Depth of Field to Your Photos!

In other posts, you’ve read about aperture (opening in the lens that lets light pass into the camera body) and how aperture affects exposure. Hopefully, after several experiments, you now have a feel of how aperture works. While fidgeting with your camera’s aperture, you probably discovered (accidentally or on purpose) its side effect on your photo,…

Understanding and Using the Brenizer Method

Understanding and Using the Brenizer Method

Even though you may not have heard of the Brenizer method, you’ve definitely seen it. Just think of the photographs you’ve admired with beautifully expansive backgrounds and clear focused subjects. Most likely, these impossibly panoramic photos are products of the Brenizer method, an advanced and highly technical photographic technique. Keep reading to learn more about…

How to Batch Resize in Photoshop Using Image Processor
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How to Batch Resize in Photoshop Using Image Processor

Using the batch resize Photoshop feature, you can set resize photos images to a uniform size for printing and layout. Here’s how to do it. (These instructions are only for Photoshop. Other image processors may have the same capabilities to resize multiple images, but will require different instructions.) 1. Ensure Your Files are the Right…

52 Tips for Improving and Transforming Your City Photography

52 Tips for Improving and Transforming Your City Photography

City photography, also known as urban photography, is a distinct branch of photography. In this guide, you’ll learn the basic principles for taking great photographs in any city, then receive a few dozen tips for improving your photos. It’s a lot to take in at once, but once you’ve mastered these principles, you’ll be ready…

12 Simple Macro Photography Ideas and Inspiration for Every Enthusiast

12 Simple Macro Photography Ideas and Inspiration for Every Enthusiast

You may be wondering what is macro photography, and why it is so appealing? Great macro photography allows you to display your focal points as large as life, usually with a 1:1 ratio. Macro photographers often photograph flowers, wildlife, jewelry, and up-close shots. The point of macro photography is to show a sharp, clear image….

7 Easy Steps for Using the Displacement Map in Photoshop
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7 Easy Steps for Using the Displacement Map in Photoshop

Adding text over an image is a convenient Photoshop feature. It’s an original way to make sure you’re creating a banner for your website or adding a message to your latest ad campaign in Photoshop. Displacement maps and filters are useful tools for incorporating texts, logos, and other elements into your images. Here is what…

Black and White Portrait Photography Explained Simply

Black and White Portrait Photography Explained Simply

There are a lot of things you can do to make a portrait more interesting, and shooting it in black and white mode is very popular. Many people tend to associate color with emotion, but some of the most powerful and evocative portraits are in monochrome. Black and white portraits have a certain “soulfulness” that…

How to Use the Warp Tool in Photoshop
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How to Use the Warp Tool in Photoshop

The warp tool in photoshop is a quick and easy way to make some small adjustments to your image using a simple click and drag method and a few control points. Adobe Photoshop is a powerful piece of software that allows you to transform an image for any use case, including adding rights reserved symbols…

6 Street Photography Tips to Take your Photos to The Next Level!

6 Street Photography Tips to Take your Photos to The Next Level!

Power on, set your camera to favorite mode, and adjust for light. Oh! And take the lens cap off and you are all set to shoot… smash down on that shutter button. If that is more or less how you go about getting your photos as a street photographer, then you are well on your way…