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Aiarty Video Enhancer: Clean Up Noisy, Low-Light Footage and Upscale to 4K (New Year Deal)

With 2026 underway, creators looking to bring new life to their old, noisy, or low-resolution videos should take note of a compelling promotion from Aiarty. The company’s AI Video Enhancer, a desktop application designed to upscale, denoise, and restore footage, is now available at its lowest price ever as part of a New Year special. ... Read more
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High Angle Photography – Ideas to Try Some “From Above” Photos

High angle photography is a technique used by photographers to capture stunning aerial shots that reveal scenes from perspectives impossible to achieve at eye level. This approach involves taking photographs from an elevated vantage point, whether from the top of a building, a balcony, a hill, or even a drone hovering overhead. High angle photography ... Read more
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Black and White Landscape Photos and Tips to Inspire Your Adventures

Looking for inspiration for photographing your next road trip (or walk around the block)? Check out our curated list of black and white landscape photos!
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Sitting Pose Tips, Ideas and Common Mistakes

You can have the best, most perfectly prepared subject with phenomenal hair, makeup and styling and have gorgeous light at your disposal, but bad or mediocre posing will make it all moot. Even an experienced model who knows how to work the camera can use a little coaching to look best from the camera’s perspective ... Read more

How to Shoot a Basic Model Test | Gear, Shot List, Agency Requirements & More

With the shifting requirements for model tests, there is a misconception that all test shoots must be grandiose productions and equipped with a full team. In fact, when first approaching a modeling agency to test you will almost always be asked if you have your own team.  In this article, I’ll walk you through how ... Read more

Dynamic 3-Light Sports Portrait Setup

When it comes to taking sports photography portraits, capturing dynamic energy is the name of the game. Sports portraits often convey a sense of action and energy with dramatic poses and lighting, the latter of which often relies on using off-camera flash. While some photographers try their best to avoid using flash, it’s really not ... Read more

3 Ways To Photograph Family Group Photos With Flash

Setting up one directional off-camera flash with a shoot-through umbrella may be your go-to lighting setup for family formals, but what other ways can you light a group of people to create more drama or visual interest? Light alters the mood of a scene through modifiers, quantity, and color. Even with family photos, you should ... Read more
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Easiest One Light Portrait Setup for Professional Headshots

How many lights does it take to create a great, pro quality image? In my early career, my answer was “as many as I can get.” But over time, I learned that some of the most beautiful portraits are captured using simple setups. No need for multiple lights, sets, and gear to get gorgeous results. ... Read more

5 Creative Accessories to Conceal Distracting Backgrounds

We’ve all been there: you have great clients but a less-than-superb background. How do you deliver the high-quality, creative imagery that your clients have come to expect? Creative accessories are perfect when you need a spark of creativity or need to block distracting elements in your scene. These simple tools can transform an ordinary shot ... Read more

DIY Reflector | 3 Ways to Make Your Own Reflector

It's a long holiday weekend which means the beach, BBQ, and DIY projects! If you're going out to Home Depot to pick up a few tools to fix something around the house, make sure you add bead foam to your shopping list.

Lightroom Workflow Tips to Speed Up Editing

Trevor Dayley

In this article, we show how we can apply the principles of the assembly line to your own Adobe Lightroom workflow to speed it up and become much more productive.

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Learn the Art of Visual Storytelling Through Photography

Pye

Storytelling in photography is an invaluable tool that allows us to communicate beyond words and deliver a visual narrative that ...

3 Ways to Use Virtual Copies in Lightroom

Pye

In this article, I will discuss a few of my favorite ways to use virtual copies and how they can be useful during post-production to improve your overall workflow.

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Lightroom Export Settings and Presets For The Best Quality and Workflow

Christopher

Lightroom is a powerful photo editing software, widely used by photographers to organize and edit their images. Along with its ...

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Best Lightroom Export Settings for Web

Pye

In this episode of the Lightroom 4 A to Z DVD Training, we are going to create an Export preset that will export web-size images from Lightroom 4. This preset will help you quickly and easily export one or images for the web.

JPEGmini Reduces File Size By Up To 5x With No Perceivable Reduction In Quality

Matthew Saville

Few pieces of software have the ability to surprise me this much. This could save you purchasing extra hard drives, cloud storage, lead to faster site and gallery times, and speed up your computer.

Lightroom AI Retouching Toolkit Released by Visual Flow

Pye

Visual Flow has released their Lightroom AI Retouching Toolkit, a preset pack that uses Lightroom’s new AI capabilities to create ...

Complete Guide to the Lightroom Tone Curve

Pye

You’re probably aware that Lightroom is a powerful editing tool, but you might be less familiar with one of its ...

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Impossible Things AI Photo Editor Launches Cropping and Major Algorithm Update

Pye

AI Photo Editor, Impossible Things, has launched their next gen update that includes cropping and straightening, better consistency, a better ...

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Guide to AI Photo Editing Options for Photographers

Alice Houstons

While relatively new, AI photo editing is making rapid advances.  What used to take photographers hours and specialized skills learned ...

10 Tips for Editing Wedding Photos in Less Than 1 Hour!

Pye

Wedding photographers are all too familiar with the grind of going through thousands of images after an event. With multiple ...

Best PC Workstation For Adobe Lightroom (2023)

Matthew Saville

What is the fastest computer for Adobe Lightroom? We'll explain what Lightroom needs in order to run as fast as possible, and which PC components you should pick to achieve the best possible speed for your photo editing workflow.