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3 Ways to Add Snow to your Images
Learn 3 quick & easy ways to add snow to your winter images, with Luxe! Quickly add seasonal atmosphere to your images with presets, actions, and overlays in Lightroom and Photoshop for beautiful immersive imagery that is sure to wow!
How to Install Lightroom Mobile Presets for iPhone in 2025!
No more saving DNGs one at a time! Bulk Import of XMP presets is HERE for the Lightroom Mobile app on iPhone & iPad!
"Import Presets" for iOS is FINALLY here! (ALMOST)
"Import Preset" is now FINALLY available for Lightroom Mobile on iOS! Both paid and free Lightroom Mobile users on iPhone and iPad can now directly import XMP presets as a one-touch whole .zip. This means DNG presets may soon be a thing of the past. Unfortunately, the current version of the feature leaves something to be desired...
New to Lightroom: Tone Curve for Video Editing
Are you a photographer or content creator tired of juggling multiple apps for photo and video content to not even match? Did you know that you could be using your favorite photo preset to edit your images in Lightroom? Here we'll teach you to edit video with your favorite preset to match your still images in Lightroom! Featuring a lovely video guide by expert photographer, videographer, and educator Dorte Kjaerulff!
Photographer Feature Friday: Look Inward With Bri Viglianco
This week we chatted with Bri Viglianco, a multi-talented photographer and educator who has made the world brighter with storybook captures of her boys and their furry friends!
Bri is a lifestyle and family photographer known for honoring and elevating true to life tones and creating breathtaking art of authentic moments as she documents life at home. So much of her work is infused with a clear sense of humor, real life energy and vulnerability, and a magical dash of pop culture which makes ...
Learn With Luxe: Photoshop Tips & Tricks - Overlays!
New to Photoshop, Overlays, or creating composites (realistically blending two images together)? Learn how to use your overlays directly in the Photoshop workspace and get acquainted with the new contextual toolbar! Whether you are new to Photoshop and/or overlays, or simply looking for a faster way to do things, we hope you'll take a moment to learn with Luxe!
Photographer Feature Friday: Stay Golden with Amber Connor
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.
Photographer Feature Friday: Get Conceptual with Alex Eischeid
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.
3 Steps to Own the Slow This Season
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!
Luxe User Feature: Fall 2023
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!
Luxe Summer Feature
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!
New to Lightroom Mobile: Device Tab, Edit Replay, and More!
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!
Luxe Spring Feature
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!
Introducing AI Adaptive Presets
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!
Making Magic with Overlays! – Winter Edition
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!
Making Magic with Overlays! – Fall Edition
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!
3 Keys to Cohesive Content for Creatives
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...
New to Lightroom: Video Editing & Preset Amount
Content creators rejoice! This June, Lightroom welcomed two new exciting features for the cloud-based Lightroom 5.4 and the Lightroom Mobile app: Video editing and the "Amount" slider. Edit video for social media with your Lightroom Presets today!
5 Tips for Getting Creative in Lightroom
5 Professional Photographer Tips for fast retouching in Lightroom using the new Masking features and Luxe Local Adjustment Presets! Featuring Lightroom secrets and shortcuts for faster editing with masking in Lightroom!
Transform Life into Art with Watercolor Actions
Spring is here and we couldn't be more excited to share a new tutorial with you that is perfect for turning your captures of florals and pastels to art! Learn to create art for use anywhere with our Luxe Watercolor, Paint, & More collection in Photoshop!
Video Editing with LUTs for Mobile
Luxe video Editing LUTs can be used in the FREE VN video-editing app to edit video content for beautiful REEL creation for Instagram, TikTok, and other social media! Here we'll teach you how to install & apply LUTs for clean, cohesive & beautiful content across your platforms!
Local Adjustments using (New!) AI Masking in Lightroom
In the latest updates to Adobe’s Lightroom suite, Adobe has transformed their local adjustment tools into a single genius Masking tool featuring one-click AI-powered “Select Subject” and “Select Sky” tools. AI-based smart selection isn’t a new project for Adobe, having been fantastically executed in Photoshop across desktop and iPad. But smart masking is new to Lightroom and makes the most popular local adjustments tasks click-and-slide simple. No more brushing and erasing for hours before yo...
How to Become a Social Media Influencer
More than 20 years ago, in a now-classic manifesto, Tom Peters announced to the world that branding was no longer the domain of companies alone. Everyday people must also become marketers for their own brand — the brand called You — and actively ensure that the world perceives them as they wish to be perceived. That once-novel idea has become an integral part of the way we live now, in large part thanks to social media, where set of precocious toddlers can gain millions of YouTube subscribers...
Transform your Instagram Feed with Luxe
An amazing resource for quickly nailing the picture perfect feed is Lightroom Instagram presets. These are quick-click editing tools, specifically designed for branding and beautifying Instagram feeds, that can be utilized by both paid and free users of the Lightroom mobile app. Instagram presets allow you to quickly adjust dozens of image settings with a single click. Achieve a full photo edit workflow in three simple steps: Light. Color. Preset. And you'll get the perfect edit every single ...
INFLUENCE. Social Media in 2021
We’re here to encourage you to own your space in social media in 2021 by breaking down what makes the modern creative successful and by providing key tips on authenticity, audience, content, branding, engagement, and networking. We’ll work though what these things mean for you and how you can use these to dominate your online spaces while remaining true to yourself.
Transform your Instagram Feed with Luxe
An amazing resource for quickly nailing the picture perfect feed is Lightroom Instagram presets. These are quick-click editing tools, specifically designed for branding and beautifying Instagram feeds, that can be utilized by both paid and free users of the Lightroom mobile app. Instagram presets allow you to quickly adjust dozens of image settings with a single click. Achieve a full photo edit workflow in three simple steps: Light. Color. Preset. And you'll get the perfect edit every single ...
INFLUENCE. Social Media in 2021
We’re here to encourage you to own your space in social media in 2021 by breaking down what makes the modern creative successful and by providing key tips on authenticity, audience, content, branding, engagement, and networking. We’ll work though what these things mean for you and how you can use these to dominate your online spaces while remaining true to yourself.
How to Apply Sky Overlays Using the Photoshop Sky Replacement Feature
If you've previously purchased sky overlays from us, or if you're considered purchasing, then this powerful little tool is for you! The process is both quick and easy. In this article, learn to import and apply Luxe Sky Overlays using Photoshop's smart Sky Replacement function.
Do-it-Yourself Family Photos
In this article, we discuss key steps to taking professional looking holiday photos from a do-it-yourself perspective, no matter your experience or skill level. Shoot your family photo, edit your creation, and place that picture in a holiday card template - all from the comfort of your home.
Enhance Your Workflow with the Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographers
With the introduction of so many new cloud and sync features, Adobe has opened up a new world of flexible, end-to-end, lossless editing solutions. These solutions allow creatives to move seamlessly from desktop workspaces to surprisingly powerful on-the-go mobile applications and back again.
The Best Presets for Dark Skin Tones & Fail-proof Editing Guide
Despite extensive beta-testing across various skin tones and conditions prior to the release of each and every collection at Luxe, we know it’s not a one-size fits all world. Some vibrant edits may result in red or orange tints to skin or subtle edits may leave skin washed out. These editing issues most often occur within photos shot by smartphones because smartphones (versus a digital camera) capture less light data within an image. They're also more likely to occur when photographers shoot ...
Editing in the New Adobe Photoshop 21
Adobe revealed some stunning suite-wide changes in June, many of which focused on cloud-based cross-product integration and sync. Photographers were especially excited for the latest Lightroom features, including local hue adjustment, ISO adaptive presets, and a centered crop overlay. Not to be lost in the cloud, the June update for Photoshop 2020 also revealed an exciting host of show-stopping feature upgrades many of which cross over from Lightroom in some pretty exciting ways, and two of w...
Light & Airy Edits in Seconds
Light and airy edited images have quickly become a social media staple. Bright, white, soft-toned edits are commonly lauded as the ideal solution to cultivate a clean and cohesive social feed. However, this popular look can be difficult to replicate. So, how are all these people getting that perfect look? The answer lies in presets and post-processing.
Full Lightroom Post-Processing Workflow Guide
This editing workflow guide is designed for preset users who wish to maximize their editing workflows and get the best images possible every single time in Lightroom for desktop and mobile without sacrificing time.
Remaining Creative When the World Has Stopped
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted both the photography industry and creatives at large. Many (including members of our team) have lost significant contracts and have felt disparaged regarding next season’s prospects. In response and in support, we’ve compiled some suggestions for new protocols and creative projects that you can start right now to boost both your income and your morale.
How to Survive as A Freelance Photographer in COVID-19 Quarantine
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected freelance and small business photographers everywhere, and so many of us were left reeling - both financially and mentally. We're here, and we stand with you in solidarilty. This article contains suggestions and resources to help you refocus and realign both yourself and your business. Our aim is to provide tools for continuity and confidence in the face of uncertainty and feelings of powerlessness.
How to Quickly Embed Images in Text Using Photoshop
Download your templates for this activity (free, during COVID isolation). Step 1. Launch Photoshop and open the .PSD Template. Step 2. Use the layer panel to view individual layers. Step 3. Select the text layer. Step 4. Select File > Place Embedded, then locate and open your image from your computer. Step 5. Drag and resize the image over the text. Step 6. Collapse the group. Step 7. Repeat steps 3-6 for additional text or numbers. Step 8. Use Layer Style options to enhance your text if d...
Top Social Media Resources for Photographers in 2020
To increase reach in a rapidly evolving online environment can sometimes be tricky, especially when something is hot one week and almost unheard of the next. We evaluate the options.
Ultimate Camera Buying Guide: 2022 Edition
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!
Why Doesn’t Luxe Sell Lightroom Presets on Etsy?
With so many amazing Lightroom preset sellers on Etsy, why isn’t Luxe selling on Etsy? As a small business founded and run by Photographers, we’re big proponents of buying small and supporting other photographers. Etsy would seem the perfect fit. But it isn’t. And we’re happy to talk about why.
Golden Hour Photography
In the world of photography, one of the many phrases you will hear frequently is “the golden hour.” The golden hour refers to either the hour just after sunrise or the hour just before sunset. This time of day is ideal, especially for natural light photographers, for capturing stunning images.
How to Manage Challenging Photography Clients
The unhappy child. The body-conscious adolescent and adult. The negative Nancy. These three types of clients are notoriously difficult. This article teaches you how to manage these photography clients and to have a successful shoot.
How to Create a Bokeh Effect
Bokeh is the visually stunning smooth out-of-focus blur effect, visible in the fore- or background of an image that draws attention to the subject. For some this comes down to camera settings, for others the effect is added in post. In this article we review what this is and how it can be achieved!