Back in 2017, we told you about a site called WeSaturate that allowed you to download free raw photos for editing practice. Unfortunately, that service has since shut down; thankfully, someone else has stepped in to fill the void.
Everyone’s list of Lightroom tricks and shortcuts is a bit different and when I started to compile mine I wasn’t 100% sure what they were exactly. It’s funny how you don’t even realize you’re using these handy timesavers as they become second nature when you apply them within your editing workflow.
Kai Wong recently got together with street photographers Joshua K Jackson and Craig Whitehead (a.k.a. SixStreetUnder) to make this helpful 10.5-minute tips video containing 10 nuggets of wisdom for upping your street photography game.
This 2-minute video from Adorama highlights one super-simple tip that could make your life behind the camera a little easier.
Educator Colin Smith of photoshopCAFE has 7 great tips for Lightroom users that might just surprise you and make your post production life a little easier. He previously shared 7 Photoshop tricks hidden in plain sight, and these Lightroom tricks are just as helpful.
We're just one day away from the official release of the DJI Mavic Pro and just over a week away from the GoPro Karma release. But if you're still having trouble deciding between the two foldable drones, this infographic might help.
If you’ve seen the RGB and CMYK color models referenced all over the place but aren’t exactly sure how …
Having trouble nailing tack-sharp autofocus with your camera? Aside from technical proficiency, there are a number of other issues that could be causing you AF grief. Here's a 14-minute video on 8 common AF problems and their solutions.
If you're just starting out in photography, learning the fundamental principles, techniques, and concepts can feel daunting. To help beginners out, the private photo sharing service KatchUp has created a handy and easy-to-follow infographic that can help bring you up to speed.
The Photoshop Training Channel published this great 9-minute video with 5 useful Photoshop tricks that the majority of casual Photoshop users probably have never learned before.
Photographer John Coates wanted to become more familiar with the latest default Photoshop …
Here’s a helpful little infographic that has been floating around the Web. It’s a simple look at how the …
If you're just starting out in post-processing digital photos, you may feel overwhelmed with all the different terms and concepts involved in tweaking your shots. To help make things easier to understand, the browser-based photo editing service Polarr has created a helpful interactive website that explains common jargon with interactive demos.
Want to understand the concept of depth of field better? Polish photographer and programmer Michael Bemowski has created a fantastic and feature-rich online depth of field calculator and bokeh simulator that can help you wrap your mind around what's going on when you change things like focal length and aperture.
Taking photographs of strangers can be a daunting task, especially for us more reserved photographers; however, it can also produce some of the most rewarding and impressive work. To that end, photographer Jimmy Hickey put together this informative video to help shy photographers get comfortable approaching strangers on the street.
If you've ever needed to deal with photos shot with multiple cameras at the same event, you've probably found how important the clocks on the cameras are for keeping the resulting photos neat and orderly. If timestamps are off, then figuring out when photos were captured in relation to each other can be a pain.
One way you can make sure the clocks on your cameras are perfectly synchronized is by automatically synchronizing them to your computer.
Taking a family portrait is never an easy task. There's often a small child involved, and parents who are trying to make sure said child is on their best behavior. Beyond that, as the group grows in size, the difficulty of organizing everybody and capturing a quality photo increases dramatically.
No worries though, help is on the way.
It's likely one of the reasons Adobe decided to shift to a subscription model was so that they could bring in more beginners and amateurs that had never had affordable access to the software.
For them, justifying a several hundred-dollar purchase wasn't always feasible, but $10 per month through Adobe's perpetually-extended Photoshop Photography Program is more than reasonable, and so we'd bet there are more beginners on Photoshop CC than ever before. Now the hard part... actually using the software.
Super helpful Photoshop CC beginner tutorial to the rescue!
There are many niches in photography, but one we don't talk about often is taking product photos. Even though these types of shots don't fall under the professional umbrella -- we're not talking professional product photography, just product shots for an online store -- almost everyone at one time or another has had to sell something on eBay or (not for the faint of heart) Craigslist.
And so, we thought we'd share this short "how to" video that Jessica Marquez of Miniature Rhino put together for Etsy. It offers beginners a few basic tips that can help take your product shots (and hopefully sales) to the next level.
Here’s something you might want to read and bookmark for future reference. Photographer Robert Thomas has written up …
If you need to chop off portions of the human body while cropping a photograph, where should you draw the line? The folks over at Digital Camera World have released this helpful graphic with suggestions on appropriate and inappropriate areas to crop at.
Want to learn more about your Canon DSLR without leaving the comfort of its LCD screen? Canon has a …
Posing App is a new app that offers a pocket reference for poses …
The digital photography course offered by Stanford (CS 178, which we …
Want to get closer to animals when doing wildlife photography? If there’s access, your car can do the trick …
If you’re relatively new to Photoshop, you might not know that it’s possible to highlight and/or remove the various …
If you’ve ever tried shooting in a dark location without using flash or a tripod, you probably know how …
So I've been shooting some shows for some of the choral groups on campus at my school, and I've started to notice a trend: people make some stupid faces when they are singing. They can range from an approaching sneeze to a full-on O-face.
Steve 21 has an interesting trick for finding good available light: he places …
Here’s a video in which interior photographer Roger Brooks walks through how he …
Here’s a helpful illustration that shows acceptable places to crop when shooting portraits. Cropping at green lines should be …
Here’s a quick and easy tip from Scott Kelby for portraiture: reduce the …
In response to the "widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs or video in public places", the American Civil Liberties Union has published a helpful article that clearly details what your rights are as a photographer in the United States.
Marc Levoy, the Stanford professor behind the “Frankencamera” project, teaches a …
If you’re both a photography lover and a Mac user (there’s a lot of you out there, right?), computer …
Here’s a short and sweet video in which famed wedding photographer Joe Buissink …
Online SLR Camera Simulator is a neat flash app that helps teach the …
Photoshop is a pretty resource intensive program that can slow down to a crawl when you’re working with large …
One of the big advantages of digital photography is that EXIF data is embedded into your images, allowing you to easily learn when and how (and more recently where) a particular photograph was captured. If you still enjoy shooting film, then a solution is to jot down notes about your photography while you're shooting.
The Twilight Calculator is a free and useful web app that takes in …