What Equipment Do I Need to Take Headshots? Understanding the Basics!
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What Equipment Do I Need to Take Headshots? Understanding the Basics!

Offering headshot photography sessions can be a great way to diversify to your photography business.  It’s a service needed year-round and in every community.  But before you begin offering headshots sessions, or even practicing them, you’ll need to make sure you have the right equipment.  Fortunately, headshots require very little in terms of photography gear….

7 Easy Steps for Using the Displacement Map in Photoshop
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7 Easy Steps for Using the Displacement Map in Photoshop

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…

How to Add a Photoshop Lens Flare Overlay… the Easy Way!
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How to Add a Photoshop Lens Flare Overlay… the Easy Way!

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,…

Why a Headshot Background is Really Important!
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Why a Headshot Background is Really Important!

Many headshot backgrounds are either black or white, but there is a range of textures, natural elements, and other features that you can use to make a professional headshot stand out. Our tips for choosing the right background for your headshot will help you select a better setting, and impress your clients with a headshot…

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 Price Headshots: A Beginner’s Guide
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How to Price Headshots: A Beginner’s Guide

Learn how to price headshot sessions with confidence One of the most frequently asked questions in the Cole’s Classroom Facebook group is about how to price headshots. Pricing headshots feels more difficult than other sessions. But it doesn’t have to be. We have a few tips on how to price headshot sessions and set yourself…

Photography Editing Trends in 2020 and beyond
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Photography Editing Trends in 2020 and beyond

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…

How to Install Lightroom CC Mobile Presets
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How to Install Lightroom CC Mobile Presets

Here’s our step by step directions for How to Install Lightroom CC Mobile Presets! Step 1: Make sure you download the Adobe Lightroom CC Mobile App to your phone! This is obviously the essential step before downloading your presets! This means you can actually install them to Lightroom itself! Once downloaded, it will ask you…

Photoshop Tips: How to Make a Logo Transparent in Photoshop
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Photoshop Tips: How to Make a Logo Transparent in Photoshop

So You’re Ready to Launch and Want to Create a Logo. Just How Do You Do It? if you’re reading this article, then no doubt you have already been thinking about getting that crisp, cool tag with transparent background that you can attach to your photos. This is otherwise known as watermarking your photos. There…

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…

Learn How to Make a Collage in Photoshop and Improve Your Marketing!
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Learn How to Make a Collage in Photoshop and Improve Your Marketing!

Have you ever struggled with putting together advertisements and client resources because you didn’t know how to make a collage in Photoshop? Let’s change that! Photoshop can be intimidating if you are not familiar with it, but it is also a powerful tool that will allow you to customize marketing materials. Even if you are…

Mastering Headshot Photography: 17 Tips for Success
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Mastering Headshot Photography: 17 Tips for Success

Headshot Photography: Our 17 Top Tips for Nailing a Great Headshot Headshot photography seems simple! It’s one person, sitting or standing still, and all you need is one or two good photographs.  That all may be true, but for many, it can be a stressful session because you want to make sure your client is…

Quick Tips for Using the Graduated Filter in Lightroom
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Quick Tips for Using the Graduated Filter in Lightroom

[textad] Inside this tutorial you’re going to learn how to use the Lightroom graduated filter tool. If you are looking for an editing shortcut – you’ll love our Cole’s Classroom adjustment brush presets with include multiple graduated filter presets you won’t find included in Lightroom!  Click here right now to check em out, they are on…

Easy to Follow Steps for How to Mirror in Photoshop
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Easy to Follow Steps for How to Mirror in Photoshop

Mirroring a background is a neat little Photoshop trick that can come in really handy. I have used this method to remove unwanted parts of an image, or to just add some interest to a photo. With a powerful tool like Photoshop, there is always more than one way to do things, but this is…