How to Use Hue and Saturation in Photoshop The Hue Saturation Panel in Photoshop is a simple yet fine-tuned tool for color management. You can use Hue Saturation to adjust unwanted color casts in your images, such as...

How to Choose a Camera Lens (That's Best For You!) I remember when I started shopping for my first lens. I had a Nikon D60 (this was nearly 8 years ago now!) with a 18-55mm kit lens, which came with the camera. I had...

How to Sharpen Images in Photoshop (Quickly & Flawlessly) Are you struggling with sharpening your images in Photoshop or looking for a quick and simple way to sharpen your photo in just a few seconds (with no fus...

How to Create a Floral Typography Text Effect in Photoshop Typography, the art form of arranging text to make an appealing piece of artwork, is often forgotten but quite beautiful. I love to use Photoshop which makes...

Congratulations to our Fall 2019 Photoshop Scholarship Winner! During the past 6 months, Pretty Photoshop Actions received so many wonderful essays written by some very talented students from around the world.  It w...

How to Make a Diptych in Photoshop Here is a quick method for creating a two image collage (aka a "diptych") in Photoshop. You can easily add as many images as you would like using this same method, but for this tuto...

RAW Image Format (Everything You Need to Know) At some point, you are going to be introduced to the RAW file format, whether it's through an online forum or website, or face-to-face with your photographer buddies. Ma...

7 Instagram Marketing Tips for Photographers (You Need to Know) These days, Instagram is an essential marketing component for any photography business! Here are 7 tips to help you gain more followers and maximize yo...

How to Apply Leaf Overlays in Photoshop In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily add beautiful Autumn leaves to your images in Photoshop using Pretty Action's Falling Leaves Overlays & Action Collection to...

SEO for Photographers We all want to see our own website at the top of Google searches for photographers in our area, am I right? With your site ranking at the top of local Google searches you’re guaranteed to have y...

Understanding the Histogram in Photoshop Have you ever wondered how to read the histogram in Photoshop, and how you can use the information it is providing you? In this tutorial, we will give you the basics of the hi...

How to Use the Patch Tool & Smart Blur Filter to Retouch Skin There are many tools you can use to retouch skin in Photoshop. Two of my favorites are the Patch Tool and the Smart Blur Filter that will not only spe...

How to Use Selective Color in Photoshop When you hear the words "selective" and "color" side by side, you may get a little bit nervous, but I promise you I am not talking about the 1990's selective color photography ...

How to Whiten Teeth in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to whiten teeth in Photoshop. There are several ways to do this, but my preferred way to whiten teeth uses a combination of three adjustment layers in ...

How to Create a Rainbow Light Filter A while back, a photographer friend of mine made a really neat DIY rainbow light filter using diffraction glasses, and I wanted to give it a try myself so that I could show you ho...

How to Increase Contrast in Photoshop If you want to add contrast to an image in Photoshop, there are several ways you can do so, and in this tutorial we will walk you through four of them. Let's start with the quick...

How to Replace Color in Photoshop October and November are my favorite months of the year here in the Southeastern U.S.! The heat and humidity have finally vanished, and I can get outdoors with my camera, without fee...

sRGB vs Adobe RGB When browsing the settings on your DSLR, you may have come across the color profile settings in your camera's menu. You will find 2 different setting choices: sRGB and Adobe RGB. In this post, we wi...

How to Create a Photography Website Customers Will LOVE As photographers, we spend a lot of time marketing on social media. After all, it seems that the entire population is addicted to their social sites!  While it'...

What are Photoshop Actions? Photoshop Actions are a series of steps recorded by a creator which can then be replayed and applied to images over and over, without having to repeat every step - They are a huge time sav...

Creating Your Own Bokeh Bokeh refers to the aesthetic quality of any lights in the out of focus area of your images. This is to NOT be confused with a blurred shallow depth of field. Bokeh is all about the shape of a...