Food Photography Tips & Easy Post-Process

Pick up your camera and get ready to snap away. Here are some of my best food photography tips, plus an easy post-process before and after. Thank you to Adobe for helping me share this post with you.

Whether you are a food blogger or a home cook hoping to capture your favorite dishes in photos, it’s always helpful to have a few go-to tips to make those images as beautiful as the dishes themselves. You may be capturing your family’s traditional Christmas cookies or snapping a photo at your favorite restaurant’s holiday brunch.

While you can get really fancy with the best cameras and lenses, and the most complicated post-processing acrobatics, there are some really simple steps that you can take that don’t require a lot of expertise or time to make your food photos look fantastic. Whether you are using a full frame camera or an iPhone, you can capture some wonderful images.

As I mentioned in Capturing the Holiday in Photos, I have been exploring all of the tools in Adobe Photoshop Elements, which is the most powerful post-processing software available in its price range. At the end of this post, I’ll show you how I made significant changes to one of my photos with a few simple steps.
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