Downloads

Documents, Actions & Presets to help you succeed.

Business Downloads

The key documents you need to run a successful photography business.

  • Model Release Forms

    Don’t get caught out by not having the right paper work and contracts when working with models or people in your photographs. These contracts are essential on commercial projects and ensure that everyone knows their remuneration and obligations. Right click and save to download

  • Copyright Terms & Conditions

    Ensure that you protect your copyright with clients so that your images can earn you revenue time and time again in the future. This contract document ensures your ability to control your work. Right click and save to download

  • Cash Flow Forecasts & Business Expenses

    An essential tool for monitoring your businesses profitability and knowing your monthly revenue targets. This customisable spread sheet will give you a clear picture of how you are doing and how much you need to invoice each month to ensure your business is a success. Right click and save to download

  • Project Workflow Form

    Make sure you fully understand your clients’ needs through every step of the project. This handy document makes sure you deliver the best possible service to your clients by analysing the requirements of each stage of the project process and therefore focusing you on understanding the ‘bigger picture’. Right click and save to download

  • Pricing Calculator

    Are you unsure what to charge? Would you like to know what Karl invoices commercial clients? With this bonus document Karl reveals not only his pricing structure but also the common rates for photographers shooting weddings, portraits, events, commercial and many more. Make sure you are pricing your work correctly with this useful guide. Right click and save to download

  • Usage Fee Calculator

    Work out exact pricing for your stock images publication or for usage fees on clients’ work. This often confusing area of business is simplified with our easy to use calculator. This document will help you price your commisioned images and the continued usage accurately and easily. Right click and save to download.

  • Usage Fees & Licencing Info

    All the information that you need to know about Usage Fees and Licensing when approached with a commission. Right click and save to download.

  • Marketing Plan

    Hit your target markets by following the key points in this document and ensure you stick to your marketing plan by having this information at your finger tips. Right click and save to download.

  • Estimate Calculator

    Use this handy reference to help you price each project and ensure that you provide your clients with an accurate quotation as possible. Right click and save to download.

  • Job Sheets

    This essential document helps you keep track of each project and each client so that when it comes to billing it’s a breeze. All of your hours, your extras and anything associated with a photo-shoot can be detailed here ready for billing. Right click and save to download.

  • Invoice Example

    The layout and content of an invoice to a client might sound straightforward but you can help avoid complication and confusion with my method of billing. This will help you get paid more easily and ensure that your customers are aware of all the expenses and hours spent on a project. Right click and save to download.

‘Photoshop For Photographers’ work along files

Actions from the Photoshop For Photographers course.

All the work along files from the Photoshop For Photographers course.

  • Burn & Dodge

    Learn how, when and why you use Mask, Burn and Dodge in Photoshop – arguably the two most fundamental and important parts of a photographers workflow. Right click and save to download.

  • Packshot

    Work along with Karl to create and extend a pure white background necessary for those clean and crisp images that you’d expect from a packshot. Right click and save to download.

  • Landscape Retouch 1

    See for yourself how you can combine several shots together to produce one final stunning image and work along with Karl as we explore dealing with RAW files. Right click and save to download.

  • Landscape Retouch 2

    See for yourself how you can combine several shots together to produce one final stunning image and work along with Karl as we explore dealing with RAW files. Right click and save to download.

  • Fashion

    Work along with Karl on the retouch of this fashion image and learn how and when advanced liquify commands can be useful. Right click and save to download.

  • Interior

    Find out for yourself what to look out for when approaching an interior retouch and how creating symmetry in photoshop can really transform your image. Right click and save to download.

  • Business

    Work along on changing the colour and smoothing the background on this business portrait, overcoming the common problem of rippled paper backgrounds. Right click and save to download.

  • Wedding

    Practice your wedding retouching as Karl takes you through this real world example and how he would approach the retouch. Right click and save to download.

  • Beauty

    With this PSD Karl walks you through start to finish on effective skin and beauty retouching. Right click and save to download.

  • Cat

    We’ve given you a picture of a cat for no other reason than to learn how to composite one image with another. Right click and save to download.

‘Advanced Photoshop For Photographers’ actions.

Get the most out of your images with this incredible retouching action.

  • Visual Aid Layers Action

    This immensly time saving ‘action’ creates Viktor’s exceptional visual aid layers instantly saving you hours of work. This action creates all the necessary layers for identifying belemishes, hue variations, saturation imbalances and tonal differences allowing you to attain perfect retouches. Right click and save to download.

‘Lightroom 4’ & ‘Lightroom 6/CC’ work along files

The work along files from the Lightroom 4 and Lightroom 6/CC courses.

Get 34 Incredible Lightroom Presets

From wedding to portrait, landscape to black & white we’ve got it covered with these great LR Presets.

  • 34 Lightroom Presets Files

    Karl has produced a selection of presets to help you speed up your editing workflow and make the most out of your images. Right click and save to download.

‘Photoshop Retouching With CS4/CS5’ work along files

Below are the three work along files from the course, following along with Karl’s retouch will allow you to take on board the information in a more hands on way.

  • Wine Bottle Product Shot

    Turn an average product shot into a great one with these techniques cleaning up the product, adjusting the labels and burning and dodging. Right click and save to download.

  • Location Fashion Retouch

    Walk through with Karl the necessary adjustments for removing objects, liquifying, colour adjustments and toning the image. Right click and save to download.

‘Introduction To Photography’ reference guide

Karl’s handy 96 Page Reference Guide.

‘Fashion & Beauty Lighting’ diagrams

Here are some comprehensive lighting diagrams on the lighting setups from the ‘Fashion and Beauty Lighting’ course.