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The Wonders of Color Blurs After adding adjustment layers to our photographer to pump up the blues and yellows, we can further intensify this image by adding color blurs. While they don’t look like anything special individually, they can be applied over ...
Extreme Speed-Editing Today we’re editing this image by Aleksandar Jaredic, and we only have five minutes to do so! Sometimes you need to be able to edit quickly for clients. We start by correcting blown out highlights using a combination of curves adjus...
Click here for a behind the scenes video from this shoot! Using the Pen Tool The pen tool is a tricky tool to use at first, but once mastered it is a great option for making clean selections. By using it to select only the wall behind our model, we can create ...
Opening Up Your Aperture… In Photoshop The definition of depth of field is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Everything outside of the depth of field gets gradually blurrier the clo...
Click here to watch behind the scenes video of this shoot explaining the lighting! Layer Stacking Since we’ll be pulling together three separate images, it’s important that they’re aligned to each other correctly. Doing this manually we be a ...
Tricks of the Transform Tool Since our goal for this photo is to clear away the trees on the right-hand side, we’re going to have to use some of the dirt field and rotate it to match the perspective. By using the horizon and leading lines we can find our...
Where Oh Where to Find Wallpaper Since we’re applying this wallpaper in photoshop, there’s no need to make a trip over to Home Depot. We found a great variety of textures, including wallpapers, over at a free website called Lost and Taken. All of t...
The Power of the Brush Tool Think that the brush tool is good for nothing but doodling glasses over people’s faces? Think again. By opening up the custom brush settings window, the brush becomes a powerful, multi-purpose tool. In this image by Jerome Day...
Color, Light, Perspective These are the three major variables that go into creating a composite. To create a believable end result, the color, light, and perspective has to match as much as possible between the images you’re compositing. In this image by...
A student on a Death Valley photography workshop I recently taught groused, “My problem is that when I take a picture of a sand dune, it looks like a sand dune. It doesn’t look like art.” It’s a common complaint in photography, and the road tha...
Apr 08 Compositing, Photoshop
Change the Letters, See the Beauty In today’s episode we bring you a fun technique to change letters in photographs. This can be used on ANY picture that has text such as photos of signs, billboards, etc. See what shenanigans you can come up with and sha...
We’ve focused on retouching a lot here at Phlearn, taking care of zits, applying makeup in Photoshop, you name it. But we’ve never covered taking care of larger scale blemishes and redness, such as rosacea or in this case red powder. This technique...
How to Make Your Photos Look Stunning on the Web Color Space. For the most part in Adobe 1998, but the problem with with this color space is that it simply has too many colors for the web. Web browsers use sRGB, which is a smaller color space than Adobe 1998. ...
Mar 27 Compositing, Photoshop
Color + Perspective + Exposure = The Magic Combination When bringing part of one photo into another, it is absolutely necessary that you match the colors and perspective to make it look like it belongs there. We start with two photos, with two completely diffe...
Mar 25 Photoshop, Retouching
Clipping Masks After we’ve brushed over the shadows underneath the eye, it’s important that skin texture we make is applied only to the brushed area. Using a clipping mask is a great way to achieve a seamless transition between the original skin an...
Phlearn Turns Two Today! Today marks the second anniversary of Phlearn. Over the past two years we’ve created over 450 videos teaching Photoshop & photography. All Phlearn PRO Tutorials, Actions, and Textures are 20% off for today (March 20th) only a...
Why Channels Are Useful Channels are great for making selections that would otherwise be very difficult to make. There are three channels – red, green, and blue. When viewed individually, the image will be lighter where the color is more present and dark...
Brush Settings Most of what will make a good dodge and burn has nothing to do with the actual dodge and burn process, your brush settings are very important. When painting in Photoshop you don’t want either black/white or off/on, you need some grey area....
Creating More of An Image To Work With For the effect we want to execute on this amazing image by Imadina, it would be nice if there was a bit more space on the top of this image. By duplicating the layer and using a layer mask, we extend the wall up, but the ...
Creating Shapes in Photoshop While it may be foreign to most photographers, knowing how to create shapes in Photoshop can be an important part of the editing process. By creating just one shape and using the transform tool in different ways, we are able to cre...
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