Photo Editing

Photo Editing tutorials, tips and news. In this section, we review the following:

  • Lightroom
  • Photoshop
  • Skylum Luminar
  • Capture One
  • Photoworks
  • Impossible Things
  • Retouch4me
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements
  • Affinity Photo
  • HDR Soft
  • PortraitPro
  • DxO Nik Collection 2.5
  • DxO PhotoLab
  • ON1 Photo RAW
  • Corel PaintShop Pro
  • ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate
  • Canva
  • PhaseOne Capture One Pro 2020
  • Exposure Software Exposure X5
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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.
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How to Design a Photo Album | A Step by Step Guide

Whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist, printing is an important aspect of photography. Instead of images lost in clouds, hard drives, or social media, printing your photography into wall art or albums makes your photography tangible. Selecting your favorite images for print and laying them out in a story gives them more value and ... Read more

An Introduction to Posing Female Models

Working with agency models is a highly coveted and sought after goal for many aspiring fashion and beauty photographers. While there are many models who know their angles, the reality is that many of the agency models you are likely to test with in the beginning are new faces in the fashion industry. These new ... Read more
SLR Lounge - Best Photography Insurance Options

Photographer Insurance Guide

Let’s face it, photography is not a cheap venture to get into. Regardless of whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist, buying and keeping your gear up-to-date can be very expensive. Because of this, it’s incredibly important to keep your equipment safe from theft and damage. Having your gear stolen or broken somehow can be ... Read more
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Photography Tips Lightroom

Natural vs. Dramatic: 2 Lightroom Editing Styles Using One Image

Pye

Post-production can open the doors to a variety of looks from a single image. The flexibility and range of digital ...

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Photo Editing Lightroom

20+ Images that Display The Artistic Importance of Editing

Alice Houstons

A photographer’s job doesn’t stop at the snap of the shutter button. An image represents a photographer’s skill, technical ability, ...

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Photography Tips Luminar Photo Editing Portrait Photography

Add Bokeh to Your Portraits Using Skylum’s Luminar AI

Pye

Bokeh is the out-of-focus blur in a photograph from a shallow depth of field. It’s nearly ubiquitous in portraits and ...

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Photo Editing Photoshop

How to Prepare Photos for Printing | Retouching Tips and More

Pye

You may have beautifully captured an event in-camera and covered all of the angles needed to tell an amazing visual ...

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Photo Editing Best Of

Best Photo Editing Software and Apps

David Crewe

In this article, we list the best photo editing software available in 2020

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Photography Tips Photo Editing Lightroom Landscape Photography

How to Edit Black and White Landscape Images in Adobe Lightroom

Pye

Black and white photographs have a whole language of their own. By removing the colors, the tones have to carry ...

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Photography Tips Photo Editing Lightroom Portrait Photography

Lightroom Editing Tips for Environmental Shutter Drag Portraits

Pye

Last week, we walked through how to capture an environmental shutter drag portrait. A shutter drag portrait is a portrait ...

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Photo Editing Lightroom

Landscape Photography Presets Released by SLR Lounge and The Photo Argus

Alice Houstons

SLR Lounge and The Photo Argus have teamed up to create a set of Lightroom Presets for landscape photography.  The presets are sold as a bundle of 3 packs: The Vibrant Presets, The Stylization Presets, and the Advanced Brushes.  Combined, they provide a complete workflow solution for amateur and professional landscape and travel photographers. 

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Photo Editing Photoshop

Photoshop Blending Modes | The Ultimate Visual Guide

Alice Houstons

If you google “Photoshop Blending Modes,” you’re going to get a lot of technical tutorials that may be hard to ...

Photography Tips Lightroom Wedding Photography Tips and Tutorials Flash Photography

Mixed Lighting Conditions in Photography and How to Fix It

Pye

If you’re a wedding or event photographer, you’ve likely come across mixed light. Whether it be the venue or the ...

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Photo Editing Photography News Lightroom

Rethink Black & White Editing w/ the BW Mixer by Visual Flow

Visual Flow

Visual Flow, a sister company of SLR Lounge, just launched their latest set photo editing tools called the Black and ...

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Photography Tips Photo Editing Lightroom Portrait Photography

The Minimalist Challenge: The iPhone Portrait Edition

Pye

We’ve teamed up with Adorama to bring you a series of photography tutorials called “Master Your Craft” to be featured on their Youtube Channel. Subscribe ...

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