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…Until Now. If you use the extended version of CS6, there’s a feature lurking deep within Photoshop that you’ve been completely unaware of. Well, it’s an adjustment layer so maybe it’s not lurking that deep. The Color Lookup adjus...
Bakster is back! Today we teach you how to set up a workflow and file organization system using Adobe Lightroom. Make Your System Foolproof A big part of taking photos is making sure you can find the photos after you take them! If you stay organized and follow...
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...
Feb 14 Photoshop, Retouching
Yesterday we took you through our process in coming up with the perfect lighting for a portrait of Chris, Phlearn’s CFO, and today we’ll be taking you through the steps we took in Photoshop to bring our final image together! You can view Pt. 1 of t...
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...
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...
Make Your Workflow Cheetah Fast A big part of being a professional photographer is making sure your workflow is as efficient as possible. Even if you’re not a professional, using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop will drastically shorten the amount of time...
Shooting Background Plates When shooting a composite, it’s always important to start out with your background. This gives you the framework of what your image will look like and how your subject will interact with their surroundings. We decided to shoot ...
Clone Stamp VS Healing Brush Tool We get a lot of people asking us what the difference is between the healing brush tool and the clone stamp. While they both have similar uses, there is a difference in how these tools get the job done. Both of these tools let ...
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...
Using Screenshots The secret to getting your cover and profile photos to blend together seamlessly is using screenshots. This will enable you to bring an image of your actual Facebook page into Photoshop and save your images at the correct sizes. To do this on...
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...
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...
Adding Light Rays To add light rays to your image make sure you first have an image that will properly support light coming through. You want to have an image that is either lit from the back or from the side. If all of the lighting is on the same side of the ...
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...
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...
Last Week’s Winners Congrats to Daniel Cook, Daniel Gerngross and Stevie-Ella for winning our High Key Contest! Contact us for your free Phlearn PRO! This Week’s Contest Submit your best environmental portrait in a comment below to enter this wee...
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