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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 ...
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...
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....
Enhancing a Light Source With Color A great way to make a light source appear as if it’s lighting its surroundings is to create a color cast. Hue and saturation do a great job of pumping up the vibrance of the glowing orb, and by giving the rest of the i...
Light Falloff In this episode we discuss something that sounds extremely boring but is actually quite interesting: Light Falloff. A lot of people know that light decreases in intensity as it travels further from a light source, but at the same time it increase...
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...
Adding Highlights In order to make the existing highlights in this image stand out even more, first we make the lights and midtones of the image darker using a levels adjustment layer. After that we use our channels to select out our highlights and paint white...
Reducing Noise Sometimes there just isn’t that much light around and you need to crank up the ISO to capture the scene you have envisioned When you increase your ISO on a digital camera, your processor amplifies the signal it receives from the sen...
Cleaning Up Your Background It can be tough to see if your white background really is 100% white. Often times what looks white or black on your computer screen is just a shade off or it contains patches of other colors or dirt. In today’s episode we cove...
Last Week’s Contest Winners Last week we had a great contest featuring self portraits! We had over 100 entries, and picking the winners was very tough. We decided to choose 5 people to win the contest! If you are one of the winners please contact us for ...
Today’s Episode Today we are working on Joel’s image because he won last week’s contest! With over 140 votes, he did an awesome job. We are covering some great techniques that will help refine your photos. Some times even fixing a few small d...
Better Than Ever Thanks to your help we are making Phlearn better than ever. We are re-thinking our content to give you the best experience possible, and help you believe that you can do anything you put your mind to. Contest Every Monday we will be announcing...
Telling a Story Through a Photo I talk a lot on Phlearn about telling a story through your photos, it is a great way to get your viewer involved in what is going on and make them care about the image more. Today we are dealing with something a little different...
Quick solutions to correct contrast and color levels in photoshop...
Easy tips and techniques to create an awesome landscape image...
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