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This Black Friday, get a head start on your photography education with PRO EDU's massive sale! With classes starting at just $17, now is the perfect time to improve your skills and take your work t...

How to model test and set up a modeling shoot with any modeling agency or model.

How To Start Modeling Shoots With Agencies For Model Testing

Elizabeth Wiseman is a fashion and commercial photographer with studios based in St. Louis, MO and Knoxville, TN. Before her photography career, Elizabeth actually worked in a modeling agency.

Social Media Is Killing Your Photography Business

Social Media Is Killing Your Photography Business

Your website is the most important piece of your marketing plan. It may not seem like it, but it is your greatest asset. When your website is set up correctly, it can help automate your business, g...

Retouchers Tend to Have

What Kind of Personality Do Photographers & Retouchers Tend to Have?

A few months back I decided to poll our Private Facebook group "The PRO EDU Community" with 11,000 members. I posted a question to see if people would participate. Within 48 hours we had 145 answers.

Photographer’s Guide to Color Theory

The Photographer’s Guide to Color Theory

To better understand luminosity adjustments, watch this free section from The Science of Color tutorial. Kate uses a different technique besides Luminosity Masks in Photoshop to create her unique l...

Textures for Fun & Profit

Textures for Fun & Profit: 5 Ways to Use Textures in Your Images

As image makers we love playing with photos to create different looks. And for many of us textures often play a big part of crafting those looks, letting us transform a nice, clean photo into somet...

Guide to Creative Photography Overlays - PRO EDU- commercial, overlays, photographer, photography, Photoshop, Retouch, textures

Guide to Creative Photography Overlays

Overlays are an image, an element or a texture that is added, by nature, on top of an existing image, most often done in Adobe Photoshop. Overlays allow digital photographers to drag and drop 

Color Grading Workflow

Color Grading Workflow

Color grading is indeed a term pulled directly from cinema. It has connections to film stock choices and the goal to achieve a look. But grading is only recently as common in still photography.

3D LUT Profiles

What are 3D LUT Profiles

Professional color grading has become one of the most essential qualities of high end commercial visual photography work in modern culture. Learn about one-click high-end color grading with 3D LUT ...