How to Get Perfect Color with White Balance in Photoshop
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How to Get Perfect Color with White Balance in Photoshop

Creating the perfect level of white balance and colors with your photos is easy to accomplish with Photoshop by using some of the vital tools available and following our recommended steps. It’s not always possible to get ideal lighting for every photo, and becoming proficient at colors correction can massively improve your photography and help…

How to Get a Photography Logo (and Why You Absolutely Need One)
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How to Get a Photography Logo (and Why You Absolutely Need One)

Brand recognition is important for any size business, including a photography business. Self-employed photographers can create powerful brand identity with a photography logo. A simple photography logo can be designed by a photographer and used on social media posts, as a watermark on promotional photos, and on anything used for promoting the photographer or their…

8 Styled Photoshoot Ideas to Expand Your Portfolio and Develop Partnerships
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8 Styled Photoshoot Ideas to Expand Your Portfolio and Develop Partnerships

Styled photoshoots can be a lot of fun, and you can get creative with your photography ideas. Unlike street photography or even landscape photography, photo sessions are planned, designed, and organized photography projects that can supply you with interesting material for your portfolio. They also help you find exciting collaborations both inside and outside of…

How to Use Lightroom: Quick Tips and Tricks for Beginners
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How to Use Lightroom: Quick Tips and Tricks for Beginners

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the go-to photo editing software for photographers because it has everything you need to edit your images professionally and quickly. It comes loaded with useful presets and can accommodate extra presets that can be purchased and downloaded for your specific needs. Although it can seem a little overwhelming at first, Lightroom…

Wedding Lightroom Presets: Shooting and Editing Tips
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Wedding Lightroom Presets: Shooting and Editing Tips

Being a wedding photographer is one of the most rewarding jobs, allowing you to capture the love, emotion, and joy that two people share for one another on their special day. With a variety of venues and lighting changes during a wedding, photographers need to acquire a set of tricks that allow them to take…

Nikon D5 Review: Is it really worth the cost?
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Nikon D5 Review: Is it really worth the cost?

Interested in the Nikon D5? Here is an all-inclusive Nikon D5 Review! I recently rented the Nikon D5 from LensProtoGo to spend a few days with the camera for two different photo shoots I had scheduled.  It was fun to really put it to the test and see how the camera performs. Now, of course, at a…

Cole’s Clique Elite Member June Spotlight

Cole’s Clique Elite Member June Spotlight

I am telling you, every day  it’s a party in the Cole’s Clique Elite Private Facebook group.  But don’t get me wrong, it’s not only fun and games, we’re serious about improving our photography and for many like Leslie & Jessica – boosting their photography business too. None of this comes easy.  You have to…

How to Install Photoshop Actions & Tips for Using Actions
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How to Install Photoshop Actions & Tips for Using Actions

Congrats on purchasing our brand new Photoshop Actions – The Uptown Collection!  If you’ve never used Photoshop much you might be a little intimated but as you will see in this quick tutorial, you have nothing to worry about, installing & using these Photoshop actions are actually quite easy! How to Install Your Photoshop Actions…

How to Add Snow Flakes to a Photo in Photoshop!
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How to Add Snow Flakes to a Photo in Photoshop!

Cole here for one minute before I turn it over… this tutorial was created by one of our “classmates” our wildly popular Facebook photography community, if you aren’t already a member, you can join us for free right here. Christian was nice enough to share his final photo in the group and the response to…

23 Random Facts About Cole from Cole’s Classroom

23 Random Facts About Cole from Cole’s Classroom

One way or another you’ve stumbled upon Cole’s Classroom, and THANK YOU for being here!  It might have been from Facebook, or YouTube or Google or perhaps a friend of yours told you about Cole’s Classroom – at any rate, you’ve likely seen my face or read my words but do you really know me?…

How to Install Lightroom Presets in a Quick and Easy Way!
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How to Install Lightroom Presets in a Quick and Easy Way!

Lightroom is an easy-to-use photo editing application. It incorporates a number of the same features you would normally find in Adobe Photoshop, but with an eye to keeping things simpler and geared towards photo editing. How to Install Lightroom Presets (March 2020 Update) Open Lightroom, Lightroom CC, Lightroom 4, 5, 6. Once you open Lightroom,…

Should I Become a Full Time Photographer?
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Should I Become a Full Time Photographer?

If you are anything like me, you started out taking photos of your family and friends and you really started to enjoy it and then you decided to make a big leap into starting an official business to further pursue your new-found passion on the side of your “day-job” to make some money while doing…

How to Easily Create a Lightroom Export Preset!
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How to Easily Create a Lightroom Export Preset!

Need help exporting your photos from Lightroom?  This will help! Presets are designed to accomplish one primary objective – save you time.  The best kinds of presets are the ones that simply help automate any standard or routine tasks that you ALWAYS do the same thing (or settings) over and over.  Today I am going…

Should I Upgrade My Camera?
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Should I Upgrade My Camera?

Today’s question is – how the heck do you know if it is time to upgrade your camera.  To make the most of this post, I’d encourage you to jot down your answers to the below questions, it will help you map out your thoughts easily that way. By the time you are done reading…

How to Use Lightroom Presets & Customize for Your Style!
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How to Use Lightroom Presets & Customize for Your Style!

You may have heard the term, you might have seen Lightroom presets in action, and heck you might even have some presets you’ve downloaded or purchased – but do you know how to best use Lightroom presets or how to easily update and customize presets for your own style? Lets quickly recap with what the…