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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.

Frequency Separation for Photoshop

Learn to Use Advanced Frequency Separation for Photoshop

Frequency separation has been used primarily within the portrait retouching world and has built a pretty bad name for itself because of how easy it is to overdo, making faces look over-processed an...

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...

Portrait Lighting Tips

Portrait Lighting Tips For Studio Photographers

Controlling your photography lighting through modifiers has an enormous impact on the mood of your final portrait. It can help drive the narrative of your subject by controlling where they eye is d...

Photographers in Your Animal House

Unite With Photographers in Your Animal House

Choose your animal house and unite with other photographers. Are you Black Raven, Indigo Ape, Grizzly Gray, or Iron Viper? Find out and get your free t-shirt with a PRO EDU Unlimited Plan.

Great Time Lapse Photography

3 Simple Ways to Create Great Time Lapse Photography

If you’re a photographer or filmmaker, at some point you’ve found yourself piecing together thousands of stills to create motion videos. There’s something so mesmerizing about these films that piec...

Best Photography & Retouching Podcasts in 2019 - PRO EDU-

Best Photography & Retouching Podcasts in 2019

From where I’m sitting these days it seems like everyone on the planet is releasing a podcast. Is the podcast the new blog, is blogging dead? Is the popularity of the podcast just the result of laz...

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...

Real Estate & Architecture Photography

What’s the Difference Between Real Estate & Architecture Photography?

Do you have a love of shooting architecture? Are you looking to learn more about shooting buildings and the landscapes surrounding structures buildings? Would you love to build a photography business

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Best Instagram Hashtag Strategies for Photographers

Instagram (IG) is a constant, scrolling feed of engaging imagery. This makes it one of the most powerful marketing platforms for Photographers, Filmmakers, and Retouchers. Paired with some light co...

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 

Ask Clients These 5 Questions

Ask Clients These 5 Questions Before Pricing Your Commercial Photography, Filmmaking or Retouching Assignments

Client questions inspired by one of our educators Lou Lesko, founder of Blinkbid. Improve your photography pricing by knowing the right questions to ask.

The 2018 PRO EDU Photography Business Bundle - PRO EDU-

The 2018 PRO EDU Photography Business Bundle

We've gathered the world's best software tools for professional photographers into one incredible package and are gifting it FREE to you with ANY tutorial purchase over Black Friday - Cyber Monday ...

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 ...

Photographer Holiday Gift Guide 2018 - PRO EDU-

Photographer Holiday Gift Guide 2018

Woah woah! Slow down… You just stumbled across the BEST guide for creative gift ideas for the photographer on your holiday gift list. Sorted here by price and hand selected by pro photographers...