Facebook Pages Every Photographer Should Like

What would we do without Facebook? I was going through my “liked” pages and thought I need to share some of these. There are some awesome pages with products and info for us photogs you may be missing out on! Now I like a slew of pages and I can not possible post them all. [...]

Adobe Unveils Lightroom 4

Are you ready for the next step up in the world of lightroom? We sure are! Today at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm eastern time Matt Kloskowski and Tom Hogarty will be unveiling  Lightroom 4 beta edition! I’m sure you are all going to check it out! Rumor has it that today there will be a [...]

Bright Eyes Tutorial

I thought this was a handy tutorial to watch. There are a bunch of great tutorials out there and this one I think is something we all could/would use. The client/model’s eyes are seriously important in your portrait, so I wanted t touch on that again. However a lot of our editing doesn’t include the [...]

Jesh de Rox 2012 Premiere Event Passes

The Perfect Pose loves Jesh de Rox! So needless to say we were mega excited when we received an email from Jesh about his 2012 event pass! With the event pass you have no reason to miss any of his amazing workshops or retreats! Jesh is an amazing photographer and if you have never been [...]

Digital Backdrop Tutorials

Today I have a couple tutorial videos for you on using Digital Backdrops. They show how to simplify your work load using multiple backdrops, as well as getting that natural look to these backdrops. Digital backdrops are pretty popular. With the digital backdrops your possibilities are pretty much endless, and you can grab a ton [...]

Removing Braces in Photoshop

Removing braces has to be one of the most time consuming and tedious editing processes we do. Some photographers won’t even offer it to clients. I’m kinda up in the air on this one. It takes a little skill and a lot of time. It is also something I wouldn’t recommend offering until you have [...]

Adding Makeup In PS Tutorial

Here is a great video tutorial on doing makeup in photoshop. We use this a lot when doing client images. We think it helps if clients keep their makeup to a minimum and then we do the rest in photoshop to avoid crazy makeup issues. I’m sure you have all had at least a few [...]

Add Some Bang To Your Images

Heres is a great video tutorial that teaches you how to add some nice dramatic color to your images! It’s about 8 minutes long and what I love about it is, it isn’t using lightroom or PS. Don’t get me wrong, both of those I love, but it was cool to find something a bit [...]

Vintage Photoshop Tutorial

Here is a nice little video tutorial on getting a quick vintage look to your photos using Photoshop. While it doesn’t go deep into the vintage effect it is a great starting point and yes, I know there are plenty of actions out there to achieve this but I for one always like to learn [...]

Big Editing Mistakes

I thought we would touch a bit on editing today. I found a great article on digital photography advising against some of the biggest editing mistakes. The two discussed were Vignette and Soft/Glow. I agree totally here. These two techniques can be very beneficial but are most times over used by those new to photography editing. [...]

HDR Portrait Photography

Have you heard of HDR? Of course you have, it is becoming more and more popular everyday. My love of HDR photography came when I first saw photography by David Hill. I instantly fell in love with it, and searched forever, with no luck, on how to do that. But since them I’ve come across [...]

Edit and Watermark Hundreds Of Photos

One name says it all…BatchPhoto! With BatchPhoto you can edit, even water mark your images in batch! What photographer doesn’t love the sound of that! I took a little trip over to the BatchPhoto website to see the whats what on the software. This is what they have to say: “BatchPhoto is a powerful photo [...]

Adobe Lightroom Rebate

B&H is currently offering $100.00 off Lightroom 3! The offer is when you combine Lightroom 3 with one of the participating cameras over $300.00. That my friends is a great deal! To take part in the deal make sure to click Combine & Save when you make your purchase! VISIT B&H TO SAVE NOW! Here [...]

Nik Color Efex Pro

I stumbled across a review and tutorial today on the Nik Color Efex plugin. I really like what I saw! This plugin is also multifunctional. I have experimented with a bunch of different plugins over the years. Most have a very limited amount you can control with them. One of the reasons I like this [...]

9 Free Textures For You – From ThePerfectPose.com

Here are 9 free textures for you to use and enjoy. Simply click on the thumbnail to download the full resolution texture. Sometimes I will see a brick or rock wall that I like and take a quick photo. Textures can be used to enhance images and give them a unique look. You can use [...]

Making images POP in Photoshop

Here is a simple effect in photoshop that will make your images POP. Open your image in Photoshop Duplicate the background layer Change the background copy layer from normal to soft light Flatten the image Done