As temps heat up, flowers bloom, and evening sun turns everything to gold, we plan to continue this interview series highlighting inspiring photographers.This week we spoke with Amber Connor of Four Ponds Living! We talked home and brand styling, maintaining authenticity, cultivating beautiful spaces, and Instagram as a tool for exposure. 

 At Luxe, we value elevating community and uniting photographers with one another for inspiration, friendship, mentorship, and growth. We connected with Alex about her journey, her process, and sought advice for learners and creatives want to dip their foot into conceptual photography but find themselves intimidated or struggling with personal reservations or barriers to getting started. 

For many professional photographers and creatives, there is an inevitable “slow season” where there’s nothing on the calendar. These seasons can often become an overwhelming stretch of trying a million different things at once and you end up buried under an avalanche of good ideas that ends in changing nothing at all. Here we’ll offer 3 steps you can take to ensure you mindfully invest empty calendar hours during your slow season(s) to avoid burnout in your busiest! 

This Fall we were so glad to see so many beautiful image shares and edit details across social media and your product reviews! We will continue to offer opportunities to have your work featured and celebrated! Check out this amazing edit-with-me video featuring our AI tools & a beautiful golden hour edit from this season's featured users! 

To celebrate your work, we've so excited to continue a new series of opportunities to feature your photos on our socials, the site, and here on the blog! Check out 5 beautiful images and edits shared with us so far this Summer! 

This week Adobe released some major updates to the Lightroom Mobile app, for those of you who edit on the go! This new release features a brand new organizational system that allows you to edit directly from your phone gallery and includes some fun new features for sharing your edits! 

At Luxe, our users keep us so inspired every season! We love seeing you tag us in your edits and we're delighted when you share the unique and impactful ways that you've made Luxe a part of your professional or creative workflow! To celebrate your work, we've launched a new series of opportunities to feature your photos on our socials, the site, and here on the blog! Head over to My Luxe Edit to explore more opportunities to be featured! 

Here we are going to cover common questions about AI presets and the new Adobe Masking Tool features, so you can cut your workflow in half this busy season! Have a favorite preset or edit? Learn how to use these Adobe Sensei AI-powered tools to speed up retouching! 

In this guide, we’ve got a whole host of tips and tricks for overlays to ensure you can confidently elevate your holiday & seasonal winter images like a pro! We'll go beyond simply placing and blending your overlays and talk selective masking and the layering of differing types of overlays for next-level creative magic! 

Camera technology has advanced at a rapid pace, with some mobile phones rivaling the best camera options from even five years ago. When it comes to the best camera of 2022, it’s a close race. We offer not only best picks for 2022, but discuss affordable alternatives and what to look for! 

Here we discuss pro tips & tricks for applying Luxe Leaf Overlays for unique and realistic seasonal composite images that will make your overlays feel fresh and new each time you use them!

What better way to ensure that content is perceived as unique to you than through cohesive personal branding? While Instagram may not be your primary space, followers tend to want to connect with you wherever you are available and it helps to know how to nail a cohesive look and feel across your content no matter the platform. Here we’ll discuss 3 ways to achieve seamless content and discuss how one of our favorite content creators @read.write.coffee does this on Instagram, beautifully across photo & video!