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How to Use the Orange Slider on Portrait Photos Using Lightroom Classic

If you’re a portrait photographer, familiarizing yourself with the orange slider will be a huge time-saver in your retouching workflow. Save yourself the time and effort required to create a selection or mask of your subject’s skin, and unlock the power of the orange slider! Locate the Orange Slider in Lightroom Classic Lightroom Classic makes… Continue reading How to Use the Orange Slider on Portrait Photos Using Lightroom Classic

How to Design Pinnable Graphics That Increase Your Pinterest Traffic

Learn how to design and share images to Pinterest in just five simple steps, and make the most of this powerful social media tool. The post How to Design Pinnable Graphics That Increase Your Pinterest Traffic appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.

Using rental equipment to elevate your commercial photoshoots

Between $3,000 cameras, $1,000 lenses, $500 speedlights, and $300 LED panels, photo studio costs can add up quickly. It can also be a pain to store and transport all your gear, especially when you add 16-pound c-stands and giant octaboxes into the mix. “Not only do photographers have to haul everything from shoot to shoot,… Continue reading Using rental equipment to elevate your commercial photoshoots

On-Camera Audio Recording: Cases and Accessories

Understanding how microphones work and how to choose a microphone for a particular situation is important. But don’t forget about how to transport them safely. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about cases, how to transport audio gear, and some accessories you might want to have on a shoot. Cases for Audio Gear Transporting audio gear… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: Cases and Accessories

On-Camera Audio Recording: The Handheld Mic

When you are at a loud event or conference, doing a person-on-the-street interview, or delivering news, a handheld microphone is often the best choice. And in this tutorial, you’ll find out why.  What Are Handheld Microphones? Handheld microphones are very simple devices, and the vast majority of those that are used for video production are… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: The Handheld Mic

Tips for photographers on how to tackle pre-shoot anxiety

Consider this: according to research from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, artists experience more stress and anxiety when compared to those in other fields, but they also measure higher in terms of strengths such as hope or ego resilience—or the ability to recover from difficult times. In other words, artists might have more anxiety… Continue reading Tips for photographers on how to tackle pre-shoot anxiety

How to Use Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text in After Effects

What You’ll Be Creating In this lesson you’re going to learn how to do some basic motion tracking to add text to a shot.  To follow along with this lesson, make sure to open up the motion tracking.aep file which you can download here. You’re also going to need the video file below, which you… Continue reading How to Use Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text in After Effects

3 Top Tree-Themed After Effects Video Templates to Celebrate Biodiversity and Forests

Trees are such an important part of the world’s ecosystem. Their forests provide essential habitats for animals and other plants, as well as playing a significant role in slowing climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide. But still, each year, we lose an area of forest about the size of England. International Day of Forests has… Continue reading 3 Top Tree-Themed After Effects Video Templates to Celebrate Biodiversity and Forests