Photography
Project Management • Galleries • Portfolios • Editors • Plugins • Apps • Equipment • Tools • Stock
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ps. Resources with a “diamond” are ones we personally use and highly recommend!
🔸 used by Kelly 🔹 used by Marlo
Project Management
Tave
Project Management (Subscription)
The most customizable management tool for photographers. Helps to organize, optimize, and ultimately automate complete workflows. Cut out busy work and save hours previously spent on repetitive, manual tasks.
Iris
Project Management (Subscription)
A virtual sidekick that helps you get organized, save time and grow your photography business. Get organized with automated emails, contracts, invoices, photography questionnaires and more.
Shootproof
Project Management (Subscription)
We make it easy with beautiful galleries, contracts, and invoices. With print store capabilities, password-protected digital files and more, you can craft a beautiful experience for your clients.
LightBlue
Project Management (Subscription)
Time-saving software for photographers that makes admin simple. Helps photographers get organized by tracking inquiries, shoots, client communication, and more.
Pixifi
Project Management (Subscription)
A web-based studio management system designed to make your business more organized. Track leads, clients, events, projects, invoices, payments, contracts and so much more.
ShootQ
Project Management (Free & Subscription)
A photography studio manager that organizes all aspects of your business and lets you keep track of tasks, schedule appointments, book and sign contracts online, communicate with clients and prospects, manage leads, and more.
Studio Ninja
Project Management (Subscription)
User-friendly photography business app (web and mobile), designed specifically for photographers, by photographers! We’ll help you manage your shoots, clients, leads, invoices, automation, workflows, and so much more.
Image Pricing Calculator 🇨🇦
Online Tool (Frew)
Getty Images has a free tool anyone can use to price a rights-managed licensing fee.
One huge caveat though: because the pricing calculator considers use could be for any size or kind of company the prices are usually very high. If you are relying solely on this tool to calculate usage licenses, you will want to adjust those rates down, oftentimes way down.
Galleries & Portfolios
Album Parrot
Galleries (Subscription)
Save your client time by integrating your gallery with your album proofing. No need for you client to copy filenames or jump between different windows to give you feedback.
Pixieset
Galleries (Free & Subscription)
Dedicated online photo gallery for each of your clients, with beautiful cover and layout right out of the box. Allow clients to download their photos directly from your professional gallery.
Zenfolio
Portfolio & Galleries (Subscription)
Build a website with simple, customizable templates to highlight your creative services. Shareable client galleries. Built in shopping cart.
Instaproofs
Galleries (Free & Subsciption)
Supports the growth of your photography business through its galleries, storefronts, invoices, contracts and more.
Smugmug
Galleries (Subscription)
Paid image sharing, hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. Also facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers.
Cloudspot
Galleries (Free & Subscription)
The easiest way for photographers to deliver and sell their photos online. Simple downloads, mobile app, and Lightroom plugin.
Editors, Plugins & Apps
ADOBE PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN *
Desktop Apps (Subscription)
Full version of Adobe Apps included in the Creative Cloud Photography plan for a fraction of the cost. You also get full access to Adobe Fonts with the Photography Plan.
ADOBE LIGHTROOM *
Photography Editing (Subscription)
Adobe Lightroom is a creative image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Inc. as part of the Creative Cloud subscription family.
ADOBE LIGHTROOM MOBILE*
Photo Editing App
Free, powerful photo editor and camera app that empowers your photography, helping you capture and edit stunning images. Easy-to-use image editing tools like sliders and filters for pictures make photo editing simple. Retouch full-resolution photos, apply photo filters, or start photo editing wherever you are.
PHOTOPEA
Online Photo Editor (Free)
Photoshop alternative, web-based graphics editor which can work with raster and vector graphics. It can be used for image editing, making illustrations, web design or converting between different image formats. Lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures.
RAWTHERAPEE
Raw Image Processing (Free)
Lightroom alternative, free, cross-platform raw image processing program. A range of editing tools, you'll be able to correct distortion, boost colours, recover details and much more.
VSCO
Mobile App
Allows users to capture photos in the app and edit them, using preset filters and editing tools.
NIK COLLECTION 4
Photoshop Plugin
The creative photo-editing software designed by photographers, for photographers. Seven amazing Lightroom and Photoshop plugins that each work independently.
LUMINAR
Photoshop Plugin
The tool functions as another Lightroom offshoot (note that it plugs right into Lightroom, too) and comes with over 300 powerful tools: including filters, a long list of one-click presets, and the Accent AI filter.
AFFINITY PHOTO
Advanced Photo Editing (One-time Fee)
A raster graphics editor designed as a powerful, low cost alternative to Adobe’s Photoshop.
Gemini 2
File Managment
Locate and remove duplicate files, even if they're in remote corners of your system. Gemini 2 scans your whole disk speed-of-light fast, no matter how massive it is. Dig through scan results and hand-pick the files to erase
Lumy
Mobile App
Lumy is a simple and beautiful app for photographers and everyone who wants to track the sun/moon. Want to take gorgeous photographs around the golden hour or blue hour?
Sun Surveyor
Mobile App
Plan the perfect shot with the perfect light, or adapt to real-time conditions on-the-fly. Visualize sunlight and shade throughout the year for any site. Golden hour & blue hour times, moon phases, super moons, milky way center visbility, and much, much more.
TEMPLATES
CASKRO STUDIO
Templates for Photographers
The purpose of these InDesign templates are to help photographers (and other industry creatives) create well-designed and content-filled Pricing & Wedding Guides for their clients without having to hire a graphic designer. They are intended to be sent to inquiring clients to not only to present your offerings & prices, but to speak to your shooting style/philosophy, show off some of your favourite work, and give them a real feel in what it's like to work with you.
Flothemes
Wordpress Templates for Photographers
Highly customizable WordPress themes for
photographers & creative businesses. Each design comes with a selection of pre-made layouts and content blocks to help you build a professional website, fast. Customize fonts, colours and the structure of your pages. Enjoy maximum control over your desktop and mobile site.
Resources
Cole’s Classroom
Tutorials & Tools
A great way to improve your photography and editing. Over 200 high-quality free photography tutorials and Lightroom presets. Real life photographers, passionately dedicated to providing you with the very best photography tutorials, premium photo editing tools, training programs and customer support so you can start taking the photos of your dreams.
SHOTKIT
Inspirational Photography & Free Guides
Inspirational photography and a peek inside the camera bags of the world's best photographers. Learn, improve and grow as a photographer in 2021.
Design Aglow
Templates & Wholesale Products
A provider of custom wholesale photography products, brand marketing templates with content, and business resources for professional photographers.
Shoot Dot Edit
Photo Editing Services
Photo editing service for pros who want a styled and customized wedding photography edit. ShootDotEdit works with each unique customer, one-on-one, to learn and match your style. Turn around in as little as 48 hours.
Two Bright Lights
Publication Platform
All-in-one tool to get your creative work in front of editors at hundreds of publications. Integrated with popular platforms including Dropbox, ShootProof, Zenfolio, and SmugMug.
Photographers Edits
Photo Editing Service
Custom Photo Editing Services for Professional Photographers. We offer custom photo editing services for wedding, event, portrait, commercial, and real estate photographers around the world. Get 30% off your first order!
Retouch.ca 🇨🇦
Photo Editing Service
Toronto-based photo editing services by Glenn Honiball. No outsource team. No expensive offices. No massive overheads to include in my quotes to you. I work to deadlines. I keep to budget. I’ve been the man behind the photographer for over 30 years. You are not paying to train me. You can talk to me in plain English or industry jargon; I can interpret and understand both. I work with clients worldwide.
Edited by Artists 🇨🇦
Photo Editing Service
A team of photo editors working with photographers and anyone who needs their photos brought to life. We are a small team of editors based all over the world– from Canada to Berlin.
Equipment & Tools
Replica Surfaces
Tool
Replica Surfaces are an essential tool for bloggers, photographers, shop owners, and anyone with a story to tell. Hyper realistic photography surfaces in a variety of colours and textures.
Foldio
Tool
15" Portable & foldable product photo studio with dimmable LED lights). Get a great shot without all the gear.
Pocket Light Meter
Tool/App
A light meter that is always in your pocket. It is indispensable for film photography with all manual camera. Measures reflected light, and allows reciprocity calculations.
Stock Photography
PEXELS *
Stock Photography (Free)
Free stock photos and videos you can use everywhere. ✓ High-quality ✓ 100% free ✓ No attribution needed.
ADOBE STOCK
Stock Photography (Subscription)
Search Adobe Stock for millions of royalty-free stock images, photos, graphics, vectors, video footage, illustrations, templates, 3d assets, & editorial assets.
ISTOCK 🇨🇦*
Stock Photography (Pay-per-image & Subscription
iStock is an online royalty free, international micro stock photography provider based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The firm offers millions of photos, illustrations, clip art, videos and audio tracks.
STOCKSY UNITED 🇨🇦*
Stock Photography (Pay-per-image)
Stocksy United Photography, is a Canadian based platform cooperative that accepts and provides royalty-free stock photography and stock video. Stocksy uses a curated editing approach to select useful and authentic photos.
DEATH TO STOCK
Stock Photography (Subscription)
Artist Owned Co-op that provides you with the freshest authentic stock photos and videos; with unlimited downloads and new work added every month.
PXHERE
Stock Photography (Free)
Over 1130105 high quality photos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required. Do whatever you want (CC0).
TONL
Stock Photography (Pay-per-image)
Find culturally diverse stock photos that represent the true world we live in. A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions for everyone.
UNSPLASH *
Stock Photography (Free)
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
Stock Photography (Pay-per-image & Subscription)
It is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with an archive of over 200 million assets.
OFFSET
Stock Photography (Pay-per-image)
A high-end imagery resource from Shutterstock. Authentic, captivating stock photography and illustrations. All royalty-free.
JUMPSTORY
Stock Photography (Subscription)
Get unlimited access to millions of authentic-looking stock images for a monthly cost. Great if you are someone that uses a lot of images this is perfect for you.
123RF
Stock Photography (Subscription & Image Credits)
Stock content agency which sells royalty-free images. In the past few years, 123RF expanded the portfolio to serve the growing market of the web-based content industry.
SC STOCK
Styled Stock Photography (Subscription)
Premium styled stock photography for creative brands. Shop by brand colour, themes, scenes and more.
HAUTE STOCK
Styled Stock Photography (Subscription)
We help businesses and brands save time, stress less, and sell online using our carefully curated stock photos, customizable templates, designer branding elements, and monthly marketing guides!
Stock Audio
Triple Scoop Music
Stock Audio
Amazing music licensing service for filmmakers, brands, video producers, photo slideshows, small business videos, corporate videos, YouTube videos, Facebook videos, Creative Agencies, Non-Profit films, TV commercials, advertising and much more.