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[caption id="attachment_12426" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by Jen Rozenbaum[/caption] Boudoir photography is hardly new; historians put the birth of this intimate style around the turn of the century, if not before. However, in the last 10 years, the boudoir photography industry has surged, as portrait photographers add it to their menu of services, and entire shops which just specialize in boudoir open around the world.

This year, Photoshop turned 25 years old. In the past two-and-a-half decades, the photo editing powerhouse has gone from a niche industry necessity to a nearly universally required skillset.

Though a lot of people don't know his name, plenty of Americans know Pete Souza's images. As the official photographer of White House photographer, Souza's pictures of the First Family and their travels have defined the Obama administration -- but more than that, he's part of a legacy of Presidential photographers who have captured the lives, both public and private, of the leaders of the free world.

It's 12:00 AM, you're finally getting ready for bed after a six hour long Photoshop jag, and you suddenly realize that your image of an industrial wall would look way edgier with some lettering splashed on it. Thanks to the handy Displace Filter, it's pretty easy to layer a 2D typeface onto the 3D surface in your photo.

This weekend, Millions of Americans will gather around televisions and computers to watch one of the biggest spectacles in sports: The Super Bowl. For more than 40 years, the top two teams in the NFL have met to duke it out on the field.

Hotspots are hard to avoid when shooting in the summertime, but they can creep up on you almost any time of year. Even harsh winter light bearing down on your subject can leave your photos with a few shiny spots that end up erasing essential detail or making skin look sweaty or overly-pale.

[caption id="attachment_8028" align="aligncenter" width="620"] David Lachapelle in his studio.

It comes as no surprise that CreativeLive’s 2014 top-selling photography classes run the gamut from John Greengo’s perpetually essential Fundamentals of Digital Photography to Felix Kunze and Sue Bryce’s mesmerizing, banter-rich Lighting Challenge: Natural vs. Studio.