If you are a photographer or artist, this article will help you find the top most popular and most wanted WordPress themes 2017. We have selected the top 10 WordPress photography themes 2017 based on design quality, SEO optimized and speed.

Top 10 WordPress Photography Themes 2017

01. Ukiyo – A Fresh Portfolio Theme for Modern Agencies and Freelancers

Theme Features

• Powerful Admin Interface
• Highly Customizable
• No coding knowledge required
• One-Click Demo Content Import
• Visual Composer 5.0.1+ (Front End editor disabled) for WordPress ($34 value)
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin ($25 value)
• Multiple Portfolio List templates
• Portfolio List Masonry (regular and Pinterest-style) template
• Portfolio List Gallery template
• Seven distinct portfolio list styles
• Multiple portfolio lists cover types
• Portfolio List Item entry animations
• 3 Portfolio List pagination types
• Standard pagination on Portfolio Lists
• Load More pagination on Portfolio Lists
• More…

02. Kamera – A Beautiful Multi-Concept Photography Theme

Theme Features

• Easy-to-Use Powerful Admin Interface
• One-click import of demo site
• 23 distinct demos
• Photo Galleries Custom Post Type
• Proofing Galleries Custom Post Type
• Gallery List shortcode
• Masonry layout for Gallery Lists
• Pinterest layout for Gallery Lists
• Simple Layout for Gallery Lists
• Standard Layout for Gallery Lists
• Various hover effects for Gallery Lists
• Proofing Gallery List shortcode
• Enable Password Protection for Proofing Galleries
• More…

03. Enso – Minimal Photography and Portfolio WordPress Theme

Enso is a simple, elegant, and content-focused theme you can use to showcase your beautiful portfolio.

Feature List

• 100% responsive design
• Minimal, elegant, clean and content-focused design
• Lightweight, fast and very easy to use
• Two types of the menu display: vertically or horizontally
• Portfolio feature for publishing your works
  • Image, Video, or Mixed format for portfolio items
  • Page templates for portfolio listing
  • Portfolio styles and options in the Customizer to configure the output.
• Compatible with Contact Form 7
• Customizer feature for adjusting styles and theme options. For examples:
• More…

04. Paragon – Colorful Portfolio for Freelancers & Agencies

Paragon is a clean, multifunctional, highly customizable WordPress theme. It is suitable for creative professionals, agencies, freelancers, illustrators, photographers, and others. A large number of options and add-ons will allow you to understand what a real premium template is like. Thanks to Live Customizer you will be able to change the theme on the spot, now it’s easy and convenient

05. Photty – Photo Gallery & Photoblog WordPress Theme

Photty is the cleanest, creative and high-quality design WordPress theme. It has 9 none-standard galleries, coming along with many other pre-build layouts.

06. California – A theme for Creatives

Show your work and create beautiful portfolios with California Theme without knowing any HTML or how to code.

California Theme is a new way to craft your portfolio by designing powerful case studies and beautifully crafted branded project pages

07. Bloom – Responsive Photography / Portfolio WordPress Theme

”Bloom – Responsive Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme” is perfect if you like a clean and modern design. This theme is ideal for designers, photographers, and those who need an easy, attractive and effective way to share their work with clients.

08. SceneOne | Photography Theme for WordPress

SceneOne Photography theme is a feature rich theme for professional photographers. It includes proofing, events, stock photo galleries, fullscreen, portfolios, and varieties of elements for photographers to create a unique website.

09. Avalon – Photography and Portfolio WordPress Theme for Photographers

Avalon is an easy-to-use WordPress theme for Photographers, Painters, Designers and other Creatives. Fabulous full-screen photography WordPress theme designed with premium quality and a rich array of useful features. This ready-made design is sure to make your photography works look impressive and exceptionally attractive for your visitors and target customers.

10. Sobre | Minimal Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme

Sobre is a modern minimal photography WordPress theme. It’s designed for photographers, video producers, freelancers and creative directors. Sobre is a perfect tool to showcase your projects in a simple and elegant way. This WordPress theme includes 10 homepage demos with different layouts. It’s fully responsive and it looks perfect on all mobile devices. Sobre built on a clean semantic HTML5 code and powered with Bootstrap. Customize appearance with theme options panel. Launch your professional photography website today with Sobre.

Conclusion

These themes are base on ratings, trending, design quality, best seller, top sellers, and popularity. We hope these themes saved your time for choosing the perfect theme you want. If you have any idea or you want us to share your theme our next articles, share it on comment bellow. 🙂

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In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create promotional photography flyer using Photoshop? The tools and techniques that I use in this tutorial are for any basic and advanced Photoshop user, creating flyer is a simple task, but there are some challenges and rules you must know before creating a brochure. By the end of this tutorial, you will get familiar with all tips and techniques to design and create your flyer.

Files Used in This Tutorial.

Font: Champagne-limousines

Models: Model Photo

Create Promotional Photography Flyer Using Photoshop

And this is what I will design, Create Promotional Photography Flyer Using Photoshop.

Setup The Document

1. Let’s start by opening a new document, the size of this flyer is A4, but you are free you can use any other sizes as your need. Press Ctrl+N to open a new document and select A4 size from Print Profile, set the resolution 300 PPI and Color to CMYK. File the document with this color code (e8e3e0)

   

    

2.  Add some guides, and this guide represents the crop mark of your document while printing. You can only insert the guides with Rulers of your document, press Ctrl+R to bring the rulers then place your mouse pointer on the Ruler and hold down the left mouse key then move down or left to add the guide.

   

    

3. Now add 3 mm bleeds to your document by going to the Image>Canvas size change the unit to Millimeter don’t forget to check the tick mark of the Relative option as bellow.

   

   Drawing The Shape Elements

   1. Right! Now lock the guide to do not disturb you while scaling or selecting any objects to do so go to View> Lock Guides (Alt+Ctrl+;) then pick the Rectangle (U) tool and draw a large shape name it (Photo clip) as bellow.

      

       

   2. In this step, I show you how to use the Pen and Direct Selection tool to customize a shape layer as your need to give a promotional look to your design. Pick the Pen (P) tool and delete the right bottom anchor point of the Photo clip layer, remember that your Photo clip layer must be selected.

      

       

   3. Now select the Convert Point Tool, and this tool allows you to add handles to the corner anchor points to convert them from corner to smooth anchor point. To add the handle to any anchor points place you tool to the top right anchor point of the Photo Clip shape and hold down your main mouse button drag to the bottom of the document, hold down the Shift Key while dragging down it move the handle straightly.

      

       

   4. Convert the bottom left anchor point of the Photo clip shape to make it smoother and adjust it with the Direct Selection Tool, and you can also control one handle of the anchor points by holding down the Alt Key while moving any handles of the anchor points.

      

       

   5. Now duplicate the Photo Clip shape and name it white frame then change the color of the shape to white. Move it to the bottom of the Photo Clip as, and select the bottom left anchor point white Direct Selection tool then move the right handle to the right side a little bit to make a kind of beautiful frame as bellow.

      

       

   6. Duplicate one copy from White Frame and drag it bellow to the White Frame shape name it Frames one use this color code for fill of the Frame 1 (5b4b42), then press Crtl+T to transform the layer and then scale it from the right side as you see bellow.

      

       

   7. Make one more copy of the Frame 1 and scale it to, then change it’s color to white name it Frames two your design should look like bellow.

      

      Adding Photos, Texts, and Other Elements

      Now place a photo on top of the Photo Clip shape and fit it with the size of the bellow shape and  right click on photo thumbnail that you placed and use Clipping Mask to clip your photo to the Photo Clip shape.

      

1.   So now pick the Ellipse Tool and draw a small and perfect circle and apply the following layer style to give a frame to your shape these shapes are used for some sample of photographs. Make four copy of that shape and align them correctly.

   

2. After applying and duplication of the layer, your design must look like our design.

   

3. Now place some photos and use Clipping Mask option clip them to each shape make sure your photo should be correctly placed on the shape as you clip.

   

4. We are almost done time to add some Drop Shadow to some of the layers, so apply the following Layer Style to Frame 1 and White Frame, it gives a little bit distance between the layers.

   

    

5. Finally, add the text detail as I did in image bellow, and add all the other elements like footer shape the shapes which are drawn on the top left side of the flyer.

   

   Thanks a lot for following this tutorial hope you enjoy it. If you face any question leave a comment I will answer you as soon as possible.

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The Free Stock Photo Websites are providing high-resolutions photos and images for designing and creating website. You can use these photos without copyright restrictions. These websites photos and images are free for personal and commercial use.

Free Stock Photo Websites

Let’s see the below free stock photos and images websites. I have lists all these without numbering. The work of all photographers on these websites are appreciable.

Unsplash Free Stock Photos

The Unsplash is a collection of free high-resolution photos. It’s the best source for stock images and photos. You can find lots of images for your projects. These best free stock photos has supported by most developers and designers. To find the images your need, just do a search.

Visit the Unsplash.

PicJumbo Free Stock Photos

PicJumbo is free stock photo site created by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek in 2013. It all started when any stock photo site didn’t want his photos due to lack of quality. Two years later people downloaded almost three millions images from this site.

You can find all stock photos totally free about, abstract, Animals Photos, Architecture photos, Business photos, Holidays photos, free Fashion photos, food and drink photos, high quality love photos, nature photos, people photos, roads images, snow and winter photos, sunlight photos, free technology photos and things photos.

Visit PicJumbo.

StockSnap Free Stock Photos

The StockSnap free stock photo website has a large selection of beautiful free stock photos and high resolution images. The site also has a very handy search feature making it easy to browse through the thousands of images available.

To find the exact images and photos you need, just do quick search or find the most popular photos which has downloaded by other users.

Visit the StockSnap.

Gratisography

The Gratisography offers free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. Just click on an image to download the high-resolution version. the website update it weekly and add more images and photos. All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions.

Visit Gratisography.

Negative Space

The free stock photos NegativeSpace provides 20 new photos every week released under Creative Commons CC0. The photos are searchable and can be sorted by category, copy space and color. Find out the best images and photos for your website posts and design projects.

Visit NegativeSapce.

Splitshire Free Stock Photos

The Splitshire is another best free stock photo websites. A collection of delicious free stock photos by web designer Daniel Nanescu. The photos are free for personal and commercial use. Search and find more free photos and images related to your projects.

Visit Splitshire.

Raumrot Free Stock Photos and Images

The Raumrot is another best free stock photos and images website. All images and photos are high quality and resolution. You can use them for personal or commercial projects. Images are available for use based on each individual photo’s creative commons license and should be displayed according to those rules.

Visit Raumrot.

Death to Stock Photos

It’s pretty good to freely download a pack of free high resolution photos and images monthly. The goal of Death to Stock Photos is to bring you a variety of options in which to use for your mock-ups, blog posts or social media.

Visit Deathtothestockphoto.

Magdeleine

The free stock photo Magdeleine is another site with a selection of hand-picked images grouped to make them easy to find. You can search by subject, mood or color, so if you have an idea of what you need, this is a great place to start.

Visit Magdelein.

Superfamous Studios

Superfamous is the Los Angeles-based studio of Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter. You can use the work for your own purposes — including commercial use — as long as credit is provided. Folkert features various collections including aerial, biological, geological, and more.

Visit SuperFamous Studios.

Freestocks

The FreeStock website offers a wide range of high quality photos all released under Creative Commons CC0. You can find more creative photos and images for free.

Visit FreeStocks.

Foodie’s Feed

Do you have blogging related to food and feeds? From beautiful deserts to simple garden veggies, Foodie’s Feed has images of almost any edible item you can imagine. The site uploads five (or more) new high-resolution photos per week and collections of multiple images from a single take are included. (This is a great bonus.)

Visit Foodie’s Feed.

Jay Mantri

Jay Mantri posts seven new photos to his site each week that are free to use in any way you please. And he wants you to “make magic” with them.

While the style of photos on the site vary, many of them have a rather funky feel, including a series of photos featuring common objects and sunglasses.

Visit Jay Mantri.

Public Domain Archive

The Public Domain Archive is a collection of un-copyrighted images that are free to use. With new uploads weekly, there are always new images to sort through in a variety of categories. Many of the images on this site are curated from other sites on this list.

Visit Public Domain Archive.

Snapwire Snaps

Snapwire Snaps is a blog on Tumblr the provide free stock photos and images. You can get 7 free photos weekly. Photos are public domain and free from copyright restrictions.

Visit Snapwire Snaps.

Tookapic Stock

Tookapic stock is a marketplace for both free & premium stock photos. You can filter by free photos which are all released under Creative Commons CC0.

Visit Tookapic Stock.

Picography

Picography is another blog-style site filled with photos that are high-resolution and can be used any way you like. You can also submit photos to be included in the gallery. Each photo comes with link credit to the photographer if you want to find more.

Visit Picography.

Visit Life of Pix.

LibreShot Free Stock Photos & Images

LibreShot is just another collection of hundreds of high quality free stock photos and images for personal or commercial use. You can download the photos for free and use it on your websites, blogs or printed materials. All images have the same license CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

All photos have guaranteed origin and took by Martin Vorel. Please help Martin Vorel website to grow up fast by providing a simple back link to LibreShot.

Visit LibreShot.

GoodFreePhotos Free Public Domain Stock Photos

The Good Free Photos provide high quality photos to free. Yinan is a travel/photographer/webmaster that travels around the World taking scenic and landmark photos. He also do a lot of Photoshop and light-room as well as other photo editing. All his work is public domain.

Visit the GoodFreePhotos.

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In this Photoshop tips and tutorial I am going to show you how to design photography flyer using Photoshop? So as you know flyer is a very popular things, for advertising any business, product, events and many other stuff. In this tutorial I will show you the essential and important details you need to include in your flyer.

Design Photography Flyer Using Photoshop

First lets see what we will create in this (Design Photography Flyer Using Photoshop). To design an standard flyer you should know the standard sizes of international paper sizes, which you can find it in Photoshop presets as well, the most common sizes for flyers are A4, A5, US Letter but you can use any sizes.

1. OK go to File> New (Ctrl+N) open new document use A4 size for your flyer you can find A4 size by clicking on preset and choice International Paper from size select A4 black color for background as bellow.

2. Now pick Custom Shape Tool and find the Arrow 2 shape  then draw it, and make a copy of that then reflect it till it looks like letter x.

3. SO select both arrow and merge it together, to merge the layer select two layers and right click on it, a long list pop up and you can find the merge commend at the bottom of the list, after merging the layers specially shapes you should do one more thing, select the merged shapes and open the shape operation from the Option bare and use Merge Shape Components, in order to remove the extra paths then name the merged shapes (Frame)

4. Make 4 copy of that Frame layers, place and align it as bellow then apply an Inner Shadow

Blending Mode (Normal), Angle (120^o), Distance (4 px), Size (4). Copy the layer style and past it on other Frame layers too it gives a great look to your frames you can add a very thin stroke as well if you  like.

5. Select all of frames and duplicate it and put it in a group name it Back Frame move it at the bottom of all other frames and bring down the opacity of your Back Frame to 20 %, scale it up an move it down as bellow try to change the color of the Back Frame to black.

6. Now draw a Rectangle as bellow the try to use black color for the layer, we are going to use it as a place holders for each Frames. To do so rasturize the rectangle then converted to Smart Object layer by right clicking on the selected layer then use Convert to Smart Object comment, and make it as the size of  all the frames or even bigger see the image bellow.

7. Right! now make four copies of place holder and put it on top of each Frames then use the Clipping Mask commend to clip it on the Frame bellow.

8. Well done! dabble click on any or placeholder layers to place a photo, when you dabble click on any smart object layer it will open in a new document then you can place your photo into that document and press (Ctrl+S) to save that it will save in the main document, to give a better look to your frame bring down opacity of some Frames.

9. An finally I add some text details which are very important to be on your flyer, you make three group for you texts (Title) group, (Contacts) group and (Services) group as you see bellow in final result.

Thanks for following, hope you enjoy this tutorial If you face to any question regarded to this tutorial  please ask me in comment section bellow.

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