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Begin your journey with 100 bite sized ways to improve your pet photography. Delivered daily.

Get over 3 months worth of daily tips, for free! Topics include working with light, obtaining expression, camera setting tips, composition, using the location, dog handling tricks – and so much more. Delivered direct to your inbox so you can read and absorb straight away (no homework required).

Free Live Session Replays

Occasionally I run live events through Zoom or Facebook Live for my students, and the content and discussion is always gold, so it's a shame to waste it. I love turning these into free live call replays to share with everyone - they're a great way to get a taster of my teaching style!

Free Pet Photography Guides

In-depth, value-packed pet photography guides direct from the blog.

7 Steps to Capturing Amazing "Run to Me" Dog Action Photos

Going beyond just camera settings, these steps are all essential pieces of the puzzle when shooting these awesome "run to me" style action shots, helping you create that one perfect photo to wow your audience!

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13 Elements of Composition for Pet Photographers

Taking your photography up a notch means understanding and using some common, but often overlooked, elements of composition. These tips range from the classic rule of thirds to the more obscure.

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The Ultimate Guide to Back Button Focus for Pet Photographers

Though not a magical way of getting all your images in perfect focus, using the back button to focus is a technique with many advantages specifically for pet photographers.

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How to Train Your Dog Model in 5 Easy Steps

These 5 essential training tips will get you off on the correct foot when starting fresh with a new muse, or back on track with photographing your own dogs!

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8 Tips for Capturing Creative Cat Photos

Discover my best tips for successfully capturing amazing shots of cats, working with their individual traits to capture beautiful images focusing on their inherent beauty and unique personalities.

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10 Essential Tips for Beautiful Black Dogs

You'll be capturing gorgeous shots of black dogs in no time with these ten handy tips, focusing on lighting, choosing backgrounds and dealing with colour casts.

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12 Tips for Working with Pets and their People

There will come a time when you need to photograph your furry subject's humans - knowing what to say, how to pose and what settings to use is vital info that you won't find anywhere else.

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7 Tips for Photographing Puppies

As tricky as it can be to obtain great images of dogs, capturing awesome shots of puppies is often even more challenging. Here are my top 7 tips to help you when photographing puppies!

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9 Ways to Rock Your Urban Dog Photography Sessions

I take you through super helpful tips for working in busy locations, finding good places to shoot, working with reduced and complex lighting and minimising clutter and distractions.

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Free Editing Guides

Free guides focusing on developing your pet photography editing skills.

Free Editing Videos

Free educational videos focusing on developing your pet photography editing skills.

Tibby & Summit Photoshop Body Swap

In this Photoshop editing tutorial, I share my technique for quickly and easily combining multiple images into that one perfect shot.

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Album Cover Image Extension in Photoshop

This video takes you through the process of extending an image using Photoshop to suit an album cover template with bleed.

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Removing a Red Colour Cast in Photoshop

In this video, I share with you my tried and tested method in Photoshop for removing those stubborn red colour casts.

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Dog Photography Album Design using Smart Albums

This 10-spread album design of Django the Koolie took around 12 minutes to create. The video is sped up 4x so you can see the entire process.

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Setting Up a Custom Workspace in Photoshop

In this quick video, I cover how to create a custom workspace in Photoshop, by adding and removing tabs and tab groups and repositioning to suit.

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Great Dane Head Swap Photoshop Editing Tutorial

In this editing tutorial, I take three separate group shots of a family of Great Danes and use the best parts from each to create a new "perfect" group shot.

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Complex Leadrope Removal

Following on from my leash removal video tutorials in dog photos, I decided to share a similar but more complex job of removing the lead rope in a horse photography image.

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Removing Colour Casts in Photoshop

In this video editing tutorial, I take an image of Blackie the Border Collie and remove different coloured colour casts on both his black and white fur.

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Rescue Dog Adoptable Shoot - Photoshop CS6 Edit

In this tutorial, I take one shot of Xander from Arctic Breed Rescue through some basic finishing-off in Photoshop CS6, including leash removal and colour balance.

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Rescue Dog Shoot Workflow in Lightroom

In this video tutorial, I take you through selecting images and basic editing of a photo session in Adobe Lightroom 5 with a rescue dog called Xander from Arctic Breed Rescue.

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Advanced Removal of Leash in Photoshop

A longer video tutorial showing removal of the leash with Adobe Photoshop CS6 tools using more advanced techniques, as required by the busier background.

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Basic Removal of Leash in Photoshop

A quick video tutorial showing the best way to remove the leash from a photo of a dog who has been photographed with the lead on, using Adobe Photoshop CS6.

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