Author: JP Danko

Adobe Spark Page – How To Create Gorgeous Web Magazine Style Pages

JP Danko

Adobe Spark is a new app from Adobe that allows users to create template based social media graphics (Spark Post), web stories (Spark Page) and animated videos (Spark Video) using a simple online interface (read our review of Spark Post here). The Spark Page module is designed to allow users to create online magazine style web […]

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PIXBUF – Schedule Photography Posts To All Your Social Media Accounts from One App

JP Danko

After writing about how I use Later.com to schedule Instagram posts, a reader suggested PIXBUF as an alternative that can schedule photography posts across all popular social media accounts from one app. Facebook, Twitter, 500px, Flickr, Tumblr, Pinterest, Blogger and Instagram are currently supported with VSCO, Behance and Google + promised in the future. PIXBUF […]

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Schedule Instagram Posts from Your Computer With Later

JP Danko

If you are a photographer on Instagram, you know that there are two major headaches when it comes to posting your photos: You can’t schedule Instagram posts. You have to upload images and write captions from a mobile device. If you are looking for a much more efficient way to manage your Instagram profile, you […]

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How To Create Awesome Social Graphics With Adobe Spark

JP Danko

Adobe Spark is a new app from Adobe that allows users to create template based social media graphics (Spark Post), web stories (Spark Page) and animated videos (Spark Video) using a simple online interface. If you’re like me, you often find yourself creating social media graphics from scratch in Photoshop (or with an Photoshop action set). […]

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Rising Photography Trend: Fitness Portraits

JP Danko

I have noticed a growing demand for fitness photography recently – which I am taking as confirmation of a fun new rising photography trend: fitness portraits. (Other recent photography trends include: Anne Geddes babies, black and white baby parts, smash the cake, trash the dress, pet portraits, maternity boudoir, boudoir boudoir, seniors, crazy wedding composites…and […]

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The Business Cost of Data Storage for Creative Professionals

JP Danko

In my recent article “Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos” I made a case to encourage photographers to permanently delete a large majority of their image files in order to minimize their data storage requirements (among the other benefits of a smaller catalog). However, there seems to be an ongoing […]

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Reality Check for Millennial Arts Students Looking for a Job

JP Danko

It’s that time of year again – when we are overwhelmed by students and recent grads looking for gainful employment. As a business owner, it never ceases to amaze me how clueless some millennials are when it comes to applying for jobs and their expectations of the work world. If you are an arts student […]

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Cinematic Color Grading With Lightroom

JP Danko

We have posted a few really awesome cinematic color grading tutorials lately – but they all use Photoshop. Instead of jumping over to Photoshop, I thought that I would try to achieve my interpretation of the “cinematic color grading” look right in Lightroom – continue reading to see my Lightroom workflow. The Cinematic Color Grading […]

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Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos

JP Danko

This is one of those subjects in the photography world that is strangely controversial – like Nikon vs. Canon, DSLR vs. Smartphone and Prime vs. Zoom … the idea that you should delete your sh!t – or in other words – why you might want to permanently delete most of the photos that you’ve ever […]

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