i used to take pictures with my DSLR camera and a grade the pictures color and when taking pictures i use different kinds of lighting position and i use soft box to avoid burning. i use wide aperture opening lenses when potrate and use teli lenses when taking far objects . i use photoshop cc for editing use different tools and i change the background ang make attractive photo . my camera is canon 5d mark3 i set the camera in good tone and i take pictures in raw and i grade the raw image and i also use snapseed and adoblightroom in smartphone. i use photoshop not only for grading but also for cartoon image making its a fun work i used to open a photo of a person in photoshop and make the photo as cartoon images