Adding text over an image is a convenient Photoshop feature. It’s an original way to make sure you’re creating a banner for your website or adding a message to your latest ad campaign in Photoshop. Displacement maps and filters are useful tools for incorporating texts, logos, and other elements into your images. Here is what…
Are you looking to accentuate beautiful lighting in your images? With this tutorial, you will know how to add a light flare overlay in Photoshop! What is Lens Flare? Lens flare happens when a bright directional light hits the camera directly or by reflection. The light scatters inside the lens, creating visible marks like-colored circles,…
Does the thought of learning Photoshop overwhelm you? Start here with The First 5 Things to Learn in Photoshop to Touch up Your Images! The Adobe Photoshop application is a beast of a thing. There are brushes, layers, masks, filters and about 13,252 different things you can do to your images with it. It can…
The warp tool in photoshop is a quick and easy way to make some small adjustments to your image using a simple click and drag method and a few control points. Adobe Photoshop is a powerful piece of software that allows you to transform an image for any use case, including adding rights reserved symbols…
Adobe Lightroom and Capture One are two popular software options for professional photographers. These editing programs are must-have tools to create quality photographs, and investing in one of these software solutions will help you take your photography to the next level. You might be wondering whether you should invest in Capture One or Lightroom. We…
If you’ve ever dealt with a damaged photo before, chances are that you have a little bit of experience with the Photoshop Patch Tool. As a “healing brush tool,” the Patch Tool can help you repair the damage, deal with blemishes, and let you get a little creative with retouching. The Patch Tool is especially…
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…
If you are serious about digital photography, at some point you will find yourself needing to edit your images. There are many photo editing software out on the market, but the two most popular are Photoshop and Lightroom. They’re both made by Adobe and have a lot of similarities, so you may find yourself wondering…
If you find understanding white balance to be a mysterious concept, you are not alone. Many do. The numbers and settings used can be a little confusing if you aren’t familiar with them. In addition, this is not something we notice in our day-to-day lives. It is something that our digital camera picks up that…
Photography Editing Trends: What’s in and what’s out as we head into 2020 We just started a new decade. 2020. I remember thinking about the year 2020 back when I was a kid and it seemed so far away. Like flying cars run by garbage kind of far away. And yet here we are. So…
Don’t panic. Your images probably aren’t really gone, they are just missing from Lightroom. It’s happened to just about all of us at one point. We open Lightroom, start scrolling through our images and we get it. The dreaded punctuation of despair. That little symbol in the upper right-hand corner of our images (exclamation mark)…
Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC. What’s the difference and which one do I want for my photo editing needs? Learning photography can be confusing. So can learning editing. And now to further muddy these new waters, Adobe offers two new versions of Lightroom. And in a fun twist when it comes to versions of Lightroom,…
Fight the frizz with these ideas on how to edit flyaway hair in Photoshop One thing we don’t have a shortage of here in Wyoming is wind. We joke that our windsocks should be made out of tow chains so they’d last longer. We also have a pretty dry climate. So rowdy hair is something…
We’ll help you build a smart product photography pricing strategy that works for YOUR business! On any given day in the Cole’s Classroom Facebook group, we see a request for help on product photography pricing. The post usually goes something like this… “A store has contacted me to take pictures of their new product line. …
Make money for your clients and yourself with high-quality commercial photography. What do you think of when you hear the term commercial photography? Do you picture a commercial photographer with clients like Nike, Disney or Armani? What about H&R Real Estate, Carson’s Discount Tire or Olson Orthodontics? Just about every business, from national brands to…
Recent studies show that almost 80 percent of American consumers do at least some online shopping, while 88 percent of customers research products online before purchasing through a brick-and-mortar store. Part of their online shopping and research experience is photos. And it’s not just online merchants. All kinds of businesses, including restaurants, clothing retailers and…