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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 ...
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...
We landscape photographers are obsessed with color. We chase it from dawn till dusk, we pump it up with polarizers and graduated neutral density filters, and we eke every little bit we can get away with out of our saturation sliders. We like to talk about some...
Welcome to the Ching Store One of the reasons we love this image by Daniel Pardini is because we have no idea what the story is behind it. There’s a man looking into the camera while standing underneath a strange store with two black dogs, and we have no...
Thanks to the one and only David Crewe for supplying the image for today’s tutorial! Check out the rest of his portfolio here. Lightening Shadows It’s always great to have shadows in your photographs to add definition, but sometimes they become too...
LAB Mode VS RGB Mode It can be hard to pump up the colors in a photograph without making it look unnatural. In RGB mode, changing your colors in curves will also produce changes in brightness and exposure. To fix this, we can easily switch to LAB Mode by selec...
Congratulations to Jason for winning this week’s contest! We’ll be editing his image and showing you how to make your subject stand out better from the background by using some simple coloring techniques. Simplify Your Color Palette To make our sub...
Black Levels Today we are focusing on one part of the histogram – black levels. The black point is where all three color channels come together to create the darkest point in your image. When trying to brighten your images, most people forget about the p...
Complimentary Colors Today we show you how you can use complimentary colors to make your image a bit more rounded. Because there is so much red present in the original image, we add a bit of green to even it out and add some interest. We also get rid of some o...
Dan Winters Dan Winters is a great photographer who produces gripping work. His lighting style is amazing, and he has a way of pulling emotion out of his subjects that will leave you breathless. Today we look at one of his famous portraits of Tom Hanks, and tr...
Creating Style There are no limits to what you can do with an image in Photoshop, all it takes is a bit of imagination and knowing the right tools. That is the whole point of Phlearn and this episode. This image was created from a black and white photo provide...
Quick solutions to correct contrast and color levels in photoshop...
See how to add interest and create an artistic feel to your photos using color toning. First we'll analyze what could help the overall composition and use rocks that are already in the image to replace the bright sky....
See the best ways to tackle under and over exposed areas without desaturating an image, as well as add in color for added effect and stylizing your photos...
This is the solution to all those times you saw your images on someone else's computer and they looked totally different...
You can do a lot to alter the mood of a photo, and today we are going over some great easy techniques that will help you transform an image in just a couple of minutes!...
Quick and easy way to change up the colors in your image using Duotone, and how to combine these effects with different blend modes and opacity levels....
How to use black and white in the right ways
Last week we went over color, and now we will cover black and white. Oftentimes monochrome photos can create more of an emotional impact than color does. Today I will show you a few different tricks that can give...
Hues are much like saturation in that they can completely change the look and feel of a photo. Here we show you how to make them work for your images...
Adding and subtracting color in different areas can help create a focal point and balance your composition....
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