How to adjust exposure on your mobile phone
Screens are backlit. Prints are not. Images will always look brighter on screen than in print because all screens are backlit. To create the same brightness you see on a screen as a print, you’d need to hold a flashlight behind it. At Persnickety, our lab techs look at every image while printing to adjust […]
How to Scan Prints with Your Phone
No scanner? No problem! How to use your mobile phone to take a photo of your original print, adjust, edit and print scanned copies!
Aspect Ratio for Print
One of the big challenges of digital imaging is aspect ratio & cropping. Not only are there thousands of ways to take a photo, but all hardware is not created equal. You may not even know what aspect ratio your camera is shooting in? 3:2 or 4:3? What is the aspect ratio of a 4×6 […]
How to Design & Print Recipe Cards
How to take delicious food photos, plus design and print recipe cards right on your phone!
5 Tips to Taking Beautiful Food Photos on your Phone
Food Porn! Five simple tips to taking better photos with your phone + create and print recipes.
Free Peachy Lightroom Mobile Preset
The Adobe Lightroom Mobile App is climbing the popularity charts. We’ve got all the tools here! Free Lightroom App Presets and Instructions to making your photos pop.
How to Install Lightroom Mobile Presets: 2020 Update
2020 Update! How to install .DNG Lightroom Presets into the Free Adobe Lightroom mobile app.
3 Tips to Improve Photo Composition
Photo Composition is a way of guiding the viewer’s eye towards the most important elements of your work, sometimes – in a very specific order. 1. NEGATIVE SPACE I was on a bike crossing the golden gate bridge in San Francisco and stopped to snap this photo with my iPhone 5. It was a hazy […]
7 Travel Photography Tips: Havana, Cuba
Havana, Cuba Camila Cabello got it right …”Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-na“ I felt like I had landed on the set of a 1950’s movie. The vibrant colors, the old cars, and if the buildings could talk, oh what stories they would tell. I wanted to tell my experience of Cuba to […]
How to Create a 12×12 Scrapbook Layout with Adobe Express
With Adobe Express you don’t need design experience to create beautiful images. Spark has 3 main tools, Post, Pages and Video. We talked about all 3 in this post last year. All projects are automatically synced across the web or the iOS apps so you can work whenever inspiration strikes. We’re going to show you […]
8 Tips to Better Photo Composition
8 Tips to Better Your Photo Composition 1. Perspective Shoot above, below, or get level. Change up your perspective while keeping horizons and verticals in check. Your camera is smaller now — take it places! 2. The Rule of Thirds Don’t always center your subject (boring!). Shoot with this rule in mind or crop during […]
3 Ways to Capture Natural Moments when Photographing Families
1 2 3 4 5 1. GET RID OF EXPECTATIONS: If you have the expectation of capturing the “perfect” family photo it really creates anxiety and stress around the entire photo shoot. Remember to just be in the moment, feel what is going on around you, and throw out any expectations you have. Capturing real moments […]
