Photo Tip: How to Edit Your Photos in 3 Minutes Flat

Every image needs some processing before you can sell it as stock. Think of it like taking photos with film. When you shoot film, it doesn’t come out of the camera as a finished print. What you have is the negative, which needs to be processed. Digital files...

Correct Underexposed Photos in Lightroom

Last week we took a look at adjusting underexposed photos in Photoshop with Levels and Curves. As promised, today we’ll look at the Lightroom rescue remedy for those underexposed shots… The first thing you will have to do is import your photo into Lightroom (for...

Photo Tip: Brighten Up

You’ll remember we covered how your camera reads light and interprets what it sees to achieve “middle gray” and proper exposure. You can find that article in our archives, here. Most of the time your camera is fairly accurate.  But what happens if...

Basic Steps for Digital Photo Processing

Getting a working knowledge of how to process your digital images — whether in Photoshop, Lightroom, or some other imaging software — can be daunting. In Austin at the Ultimate Money-Making Photo Workshop a couple of weeks ago, we hosted several sessions...

Lightroom Tip: How to Sort Your Photos

Digital cameras make it easy to shoot more pictures than ever. During a recent trip to Australia, my wife Karen and I shot over 350 images of endangered sea lions in under an hour. We were in Australia for 48 days and shot nearly 9,600 images in total. Of those, I...

Photoshop is Fair Play When Selling Photos for Stock

Last week I filled you in on the different requirements for model releases when you sell your photos for stock or for editorial. This week, I’d like to cover another difference when it comes to these two markets. I’ve offered tips on editing your photos in...

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