Are you a food photographer looking for some cool presets and photo filters to help edit those photos of your delicious home-cooked meals? You’re in luck because today we’re going to be reviewing the five most essential food photography preset packs to help you get the job done! Whether you shoot food products for companies […]
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In-depth tutorials, organizational tips, and resources for Adobe Lightroom. Learn how to process and edit your RAW photos, install and use Lightroom Presets, and work within the Library and Develop Panels.
Adobe Lightroom is a professional photo editing program used by millions of people all over the world. Photographers, bloggers, and many other creative professionals use Lightroom to improve their work. In this category we’ll be covering topics on how to use the specific editing tools in Lightroom and how to save time in the process.
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Using Adobe Lightroom to Create Custom Brushes
If you feel like you spend all of your time doing the same thing to a set of photos, then what you need to do is develop a few adjustment brushes. Custom brushes can be developed for anything from cooling down a photograph to sharpening an image and giving it a real pop. I know […]
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Welcome to the new Author Spotlight series, where you’ll get to know talented FilterGrade preset authors. Today’s feature focuses on Escape Journal, the dynamic duo of Kimi and Thomas. This traveling couple chronicles their travels on Instagram and their blog. Escape Journal’s presets are available on FilterGrade. Introduce yourself, and how you became photographers. We are Kimi and […]
Continue readingFood Photography in the Field with Jakub Kapusnak from Foodiesfeed
First things first. This article isn’t about styling. I admit that styling food for the best shot possible is like a childs game. The whole scene becomes your playground. There are tons of possibilities you can do to make it look beautiful. However, for tons of possibilities, you also need tons of props like dishes, […]
Continue readingFree Travel Lightroom Presets Sample
Traveling the globe is a great way to learn and grow. In seeing different environments and meeting new people, you will learn a lot about yourself and the world around you. For photographers, traveling is also a fantastic way to gain some new inspiration. Every street you go down is a new opportunity for interesting photos. […]
Continue readingHow to Create an HDR Effect in Adobe Lightroom
Photographing a high-contrast or backlit scene can be challenging. Do you expose for the shadows and blow out the highlights? Or do you expose for the highlights and lose everything in the shadows? It really just depends on your personal and artistic preference. Software like Lightroom is able to do a lot when it comes […]
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Using the Graduated Filter Tool and the Adjustment Brush Tool can dramatically help your process when editing in Adobe Lightroom. These brushes let you paint adjustments on to your photos in specific areas. You can dodge and burn skin tones, enhance exposure for skies, and make a bunch of other valuable adjustments to your images. We’ve received […]
Continue readingCyber Monday Free Gift (Free Filters for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Capture One)
This December marks three years since the official launch of FilterGrade. Thank you for all of the support since then. We wouldn’t be here without you. Since our launch in 2013, a lot has changed. We started as a small store with filters and photo editing tips. Since then we’ve grown to a marketplace and community serving millions […]
Continue readingCreating Deep Colors in Lightroom with Mike Poggioli
Whether you like shooting cities or nature scenes, deep colors and tones add a captivating mood to photos. I’ll walk you through how I include color, shadows, bluish darks and orange glows that are perfect for all kinds of shots, especially low-light photos taken on shorter fall days! You can get this tutorial as a preset called […]
Continue readingCreating Vibrant Tones in Lightroom with Kellan Hendry
Hello! My name is Kellan Hendry and I am an 18 year old creative living in Cape Town, South Africa. I specialize in creative Photoshop edits that have a fantasy aspect but also an aspect of realism to them. I’m going to be showing you how I turn my bland Photoshop edits into a vibrant, […]
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