Cherise Di Editors

10/09/2026

This is always such a busy time of year for photographers and I know how quickly those editing galleries can start piling up! Between Christmas minis, family sessions, and everything else, I know that it can get overwhelming pretty fast.

If you’re already wondering how you’re going to get all those galleries edited and delivered before Christmas, I’d love to help!

I offer professional photo editing with a focus on natural, true to life colors that complement your photography style. My goal is to make your workload lighter without making your images look like someone else edited them.

If you’re planning Christmas sessions this year, now is a great time to get on my editing schedule! Send me a message and let’s chat about how I can help you get those galleries delivered! ❤️

10/08/2026

Here's a question for photographers:

Do you think the photography industry has normalized delivering too many images?

When I first started photography in 2008, I trained under a photographer who delivered just 150 images per wedding. No more than that.

I remember him printing out 150 photographs, spreading them across a table, and asking me, "That's a lot of pictures, isn't it?"

He went on to explain that when you deliver 1,000+ images, many of them will never be printed. They'll sit on a hard drive, eventually getting lost in time as technology changes.

Something else he said has stuck with me all these years:

"Anyone can snap 2,000 pictures and get lucky. Not everyone can take 150 photos intentionally."

He taught me photography using the fundamentals of film. I had to learn light metering, understand lighting, and even limit myself to 24 exposures at a time, just like shooting a roll of film.

Every frame mattered.

Looking back, I believe that training made me a better photographer. I learned to anticipate moments instead of simply reacting to them. I learned to understand my camera, recognize beautiful light, and approach every photograph with intention.

That foundation eventually helped me earn awards for my photography, and it's something I've carried into my editing career.

Now, did I ever actually deliver only 150 images from a wedding? No. 😂

But after nearly two decades in this industry, and now spending so much of my time on the editing side, I've noticed how much expectations have changed.

I regularly see wedding galleries containing 4,000 images and one-hour sessions delivering 150 or more.

I'm not saying those numbers are necessarily wrong. Photography has evolved, and there are plenty of reasons photographers deliver the way they do today.

But it does make me wonder; Are we delivering more images because more is genuinely better for our clients, or because it's simply what's become expected in the digital era?

And has the emphasis on quantity changed the way we approach photography itself?

I'd love to hear different perspectives on this, especially from photographers who have been in the industry long enough to see that shift.

10/05/2026

I need some new shows to watch while editing - something I don't have to fully focus on, because obviously I'm editing.

I last watched Everybody Loves Raymond (pretty much like my family growing up lol). Fun easy going comedies, time travel, romance.

I love stuff like Outlander and The Way Home

Help me out!

Send a message to learn more

10/03/2026

Photographers we have officially entered the “why did I book this many sessions?” portion of the year. Haha

Busy season is great for business but that doesn’t mean you have to spend every spare moment staring at a computer trying to keep up.

Outsourcing isn’t giving up your control over your work, it just gives you some time back and freedom to focus on the part of business that you love the most.

Whether you need help with basic color and tone corrections or more detailed retouching, I can step in wherever your editing queue is starting to pile up.

Now booking editing work for busy season, send me a message and let me free up some of your time :)

10/02/2026

Editing tip: Newborn Skin that's overly red.

Are you working on a newborn session and the baby is just SO red? I've been there and it can be a huge pain. In the past I have spent literal hours color correcting just reds in newborn images. Which is when I was like "There really has to be a faster way." and there is, so here's a quick trick that can save you a ton of time.

In Adobe Camera Raw,to get the RAW panel open hit
Mac: Command + Shift + A
Windows: Ctrl + Shift + A
Then scroll down to the HSL color panel

In Lightroom, head to your HSL/Color panel to the right.

Go to Hue, find your Reds, and move them slightly toward orange. Just enough so that it naturally reduces those reds.

If you push it too far, the lips can start turning brown or the skin can take on a strange, muddy color. But a small adjustment can take the edge off that intense newborn redness without making the baby look unnatural.

Then go into Luminance and gently raise it under oranges - this bumps the skin up a little. You can play with this.

If you need to, you can then go to saturation and decrease it just ever so slightly under reds/oranges.

That little combination can make newborn skin look noticeably softer and more balanced almost instantly.

Once you find a correction that works for that lighting setup, you can sync or batch it across the rest of the gallery instead of correcting every single image individually.

Just make sure you do a quick check afterward for consistency, especially if your backgrounds, blankets, wraps, or props contain red or orange tones, because HSL adjustments can affect those too.

Keep this tip in your back pocket for your next newborn session and you'll be thanking me! :)

10/01/2026

Editing tip: Stop judging your skin tones while you’re zoomed in.

When you’ve been staring at a face at 100–300% for several minutes, it becomes really easy to start correcting things that nobody would ever notice in the finished photograph.

You see a redness that suddenly looks too red or a natural shadow becomes way too dark, normal variation in skin tone starts becoming imperfections that need perfected.

Then you find yourself zooming out to a flat lackluster image and you wonder how you got there when everything was perfect a few seconds ago.

Next time try this instead:

Do your detailed retouching up close, but regularly zoom back out to the size your client will actually see the photograph.

Then ask yourself:

Does anything still pull my eye away from the subject?

If the answer is no then you’re done.

Natural skin has colors, textures, slight variations - and that’s ok! It shows our beautifully imperfect nature.

Sometimes the best editing decision we make, is knowing when to stop.

09/25/2026

Something I learned after almost 18 years of retouching:

A lot of the time, the reason editing feels overwhelming isn’t actually the number of images.

It’s the amount of decisions you’re making.

When you’re bouncing back and forth between deciding which image to keep, fixing color, cropping, retouching skin, removing distractions and wondering if you’re actually done with an image, your brain is constantly switching gears.

That time adds up faster than you realize, especially during busy season when you have so much to work on.

One fall I edited over 50,000 images for photographers, and I absolutely could not have done that by just opening galleries and working my way through them however I felt that day.

I needed a repeatable system where I always knew what I was working on and what came next.

It’s still the way I approach editing today, especially when there’s a lot on my plate.

It’s about removing some of the decisions.

Have you perfected your own repeatable editing system yet?

If not I have something for you.

The Editing Reset coming in October.

09/22/2026

Edits don’t always need to be super dramatic. Sometimes you just want those clean finishing touches so you can get your galleries finished and back to your clients.

October is usually when Christmas sessions really start ramping up, and can you believe that’s only like a week and a half away?! I swear it was January a few weeks ago. 😂

Before we know it, it’ll be Christmas minis, fall sessions, weddings, family sessions and approximately 47 galleries sitting in Lightroom waiting to be finished.

So, if you have a million things on your plate, or even if you just really hate editing and don’t want to do it - I’m your girl.

Send me a message and I’ll help you take a load off!

09/21/2026

It's Monday (again),

If your schedule looks kinda like this; Galleries that need edited, emails that need answered, sessions that need photographed, kids who need a million things, the house is a mess even though you swear you just cleaned it, and apparently you're also supposed to find time to eat, sleep, and relax so you don't burn out.

Let me help you out and take something off your plate, I'd love to help edit your sessions for you. I'll give you back hours in your day so you can sip a cup of coffee, or enjoy a book, take a bath, or go outside with your kids (and hopefully enjoy the cooler fall weather).

Send me a message and I'll help you take a load off!

09/20/2026

I can’t decide, which edit do you prefer?