Our Photographer Feature Friday series continues! As spring welcomes golden light, we're so thrilled to have brand and portrait photographer Amber Connor (@fourpondsliving) on the blog!  As temps heat up, flowers bloom, and evening sun turns everything to gold, we plan to continue this interview series highlighting inspiring photographers and creatives who share in our goal to inspire, educate, create, and connect!  This week we spoke with Amber Connor of Four Ponds Living! We talked home and brand styling, maintaining authenticity, cultivating beautiful spaces, and ..read more

New on the Luxe Blog: Photographer Feature Friday! We're so excited to kick off an inspiring series of photographer interviews with conceptual artist and fine art photographer, Alexandrea Eischeid (@alexeischeid)!  At Luxe, we value elevating community and delight in uniting photographers with one another for inspiration, friendship, mentorship, and growth - this interview series will aim to highlight inspiring photographers and creatives who share in this goal to inspire, educate, create, and connect! We connected with Alex about her journey, her process, and sought advice fo ..read more

For many professional photographers and creatives, there is an inevitable “slow season” where there’s nothing on the calendar. Whether that slow period falls reliably on the first quarter of the year or shifts per the nature of your niche, these stretches without constant work sound like a good thing in terms of needed rest, but 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 calen ..read more

Whew! Fall was a busy season!! Full to the brim with inspiration and we can't wait to share a few selects with you! As always, 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 and inspire you to kindle your spark for photography Head over to My Luxe Edit to explore more opportunities to be featured!  Each season we'll feature a mix of images, the occasional editing clips, and some words from the photographers and creatives behind ..read more

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 so excited to continue 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!  Each season we'll feature 5 images and some words from the photographers and creatives behind the photos! W ..read 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!  The New Library Design The new design for navigating images on Lightroom Mobile features 3 icons on the bottom of the screen labeled "Gallery (Android)/Device (iPhone)", "Lightroom" and "Discover". This new method of organization is not only simple and clean, but intuitive for new users!  Th ..read more

One of our favorite things about the holiday season is witnessing the creative magic of seasonally inspired photography – captured both indoors & out! One great way the spirit of the season is infused in creative work is via the use of fog & snow photo overlays. Whether picking that perfect tree at the tree farm, or crafting a bespoke gingerbread house with candy cane and gumdrop details, these tools can create that special dash of magic that transports your viewer into the image and into the moment! Transforming beautiful captures into storybook moments.  We so hope you’ve seen s ..read more

Sometimes you get that almost PERFECT image...The location, light and even the expression on your subject’s face is just right, but you have this feeling that something is missing. Often that missing piece can be something as simple as atmosphere – the scent, sound, and emotion of the season. One great way to recreate this whimsical attribute is through creating composites with Photoshop Overlays. We know it can be frustrating when you don’t seem to be able to get the look you are wanting by just placing an overlay over your image because it either feels disconnec ..read more

On social media one of the best ways to ensure that your content is uniquely recognizable is to be consistent in the look, feel, and message of what you create. Typically, before anyone reads the caption or hears your words, they will see your content. 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 ..read more

Note: the video editing update discussed here is not available in Lightroom Classic and is considered a Premium feature in the mobile app!  Content creators rejoice! This June, Lightroom (CC) welcomed two new exciting features for the cloud-based Lightroom 5.4 and the Lightroom Mobile app: Video editing and the "Amount" slider. These are a total gamechanger for editing branded content easily & seamlessly using tools you already know & love!  We get asked a lot about matching video edits to photos and changing the strength of presets, so we're here to answer som ..read more