Sometimes in order for your subject to catch your audience’s attention, you need to emphasize it. Ideally right during the shot. There are lots of ways to tackle this problem. One of them is to utilize contrast.

A sharp photo is a good photo. This rule is always true, almost all the time. But you can’t always get a sharp photo when you’re taking the shot. Luckily, there are ways to improve a photo’s sharpness on a computer.

Practically every good photo has a clearly defined subject. And the subject is exactly what a photographer wants their audience to focus on. But how do you accomplish that? You can do it in a number of ways. Here are a few of them.

Cropping is one of the most basic photo edits. Use it to remove a picture’s distractions or adjust its composition. Take a look at how to do a photo crop.

Every photographer has to struggle with a lack of light every now and then. There are lots of ways to tackle this problem. Take a look at what your options are here when you’re shooting without a flash.

To truly know your way around your photos, you need to keep them organized. Keywords will help you with this. Use them to supplement your photos with information that you aren't able fit into their names. And make it easy to later find, for example, all the photos with your grandma or your uncle Joe.

Even when you’re shooting portraits outdoors, you can still have your light under control. You just have to take advantage of combined light—that is, artificial plus natural light. It’s generally ideal if you can keep the two light sources in balance. It’s best of all if your audience can’t even tell that you used both types of light.

To keep your pictures free of motion blurring, you want to shorten your exposure times. But sometimes that’s just not possible. At those times you should concentrate on holding your camera right instead.

Landscape photography and panoramas are among the most popular photographic genres. But some photographers are afraid they won’t be skilled enough to join photos into a panorama. And yet it’s just a few clicks on a computer.

Diffraction, that is, the bending of light, is a problem that’s encountered by many photographers. But they often don’t even realize it. Meanwhile, diffraction can make your photos lose sharpness. And that’s something that most photographers want to avoid. So it’s good to know what causes diffraction and how to avoid it—and also how to take advantage of it.