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Although we compress our images with Blogstomp or Photoshop before we upload them to a website, we’ve found that running them through an online optimizer can reduce their size by 75% and significantly improve a website’s speed (without compromising when it comes to quality!) We recently tested out a few compressors and found that TinyPNG […]

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How I blog a wedding or portrait session in 30-minutes from start to finish in eight easy to follow steps. And what I do BEFORE the session to make blogging a whole lot easier.

There are all sorts of reasons to hire a brand designer. But one mistake we see too often is people trying to hire brand designers too soon. If you haven’t quite come into your own style, or don’t have an understanding of your ideal client, it’s probably best to hold-off spending a ton of money on a custom brand design. Instead, save some money and focus on exploring your brand’s identity and your ideal client by getting some experience.

If you haven’t touched your website for the past year or longer because you’ve been busy with other stuff (we get it), you might be feeling like you’re ready for a redesign. That might be true—but it also might be true that your website just needs a little tender love and care.

I’m often asked how I come up with color palettes for brands. Color palettes often help set the overall aesthetic for a brand and since my method is something anyone trying to improve their brands could do, I thought I would share how I came up with my aesthetic.

Nothing adds clutter to a website like overdoing it on fonts. I’ve signed in to work on Showit websites before where my client had 20+ fonts in use on their website. What most people don’t realize is that each font adds another unique “feel” to the site. As a general rule of thumb, we recommend […]

This is a design mistake we see people make over and over again. While most website editors and blogging software will size your images down when they’re displayed, if you upload high-resolution images, your site is probably going to load fairly slowly. This is something we were guilty of early in our career as photographers. […]

Faster website page load speeds generally result in a better user experience, which can increase conversion rates.

I’ve been giving a lot of love to classic serifs lately so today I’m sharing a sans serif with a more modern feel. Meet P22 Underground. Even though P22 feels contemporary, it’s actually a variation of an old font that was designed for the London Underground in 1916. Give anything enough time and it’s cool […]

The galleries in your portfolio really only need a few highlights from the event or project. If you’re a wedding photographer, that’s about 25-40 images from the event. You don’t need to show every single aspect of a wedding day in order to “prove” to site visitors that you can shoot in all situations. If […]

We know it’s hard to find good scripts so this week we’re sharing an accent script in addition to headline and body copy fonts. We love the handdrawn look of Hullist paired with an elegant serif like Playfair Display and a softer sans serif like Raleway. If you’re using a script, we recommend using it […]

Text written in all caps can be difficult to read. We love the look for headlines and short bits of text as it can feel refined and elegant, but it’s easy to overdo it and make that text more difficult to read. If you’re going to write text in all caps, it’s normally best to […]

We love combining this contemporary serif, Chronicle Display, with a clean sans serif like Questrial. Chronicle Display is a versatile font that looks great for both headlines and body copy (the body copy on our site is Chronicle Display). If we’re using it for a headline, we like to set it in all caps and […]