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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...
Turning Day Into Night In today’s episode you are going to learn how turn day into night, and all the tips and tricks that go along with it. Light falls completely different during the day than it does at night, so making that change can be very tough. O...
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 ...
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...
Retouching a Retouch Retouching people is not easy, that being said there are some guidelines to follow to make sure people don’t come out looking distorted. Today we are going to take an image that has been retouched poorly, and fix it. Rules of Retouch...
Grass Brush We are including the brush we made in today’s episode to make your life a bit easier. The next time you have to blend an area of grass, just grab this brush and get to work. Bonus: Use this brush with the Clone Stamp Tool! This Week’s ...
Common Issues Shooting in natural light can have as many issues as shooting with strobes. Not a big deal if you know how to take care of them. Today we are talking about two of those issues: underexposed subject, and cool white balance. You can correct both of...
Creating a Poster in Photoshop Today we take a great image from our contest winner Angelo, and turn it into a graphic poster. We chose the Sons of Anarchy because of the simple design and the fact that the main element is a person on a dark motorcycle. To be h...
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...
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...
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...
Adding Style Congrats to Chris Neel for winning this week’s contest! This is his image and we are happy to edit it. When working on post-production you have many choices as far as the direction you want to take an image. Will you make it black and white?...
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...
Sep 05, Episode 365 Photoshop
How to Make Skin More Dynamic Retouching skin can be done in many ways, from cloning out pimples to all out smoothing. In this tutorial we are going to be covering more global adjustments that will change the way a photo feels as a whole while making the skin ...
Creating Stars in Photoshop For this image we added stars to the sky to give it a bit more detail. Doing this sort of thing is not as hard as it sounds and can really make a photo stand out. We start by opening the brush palette and working with spacing, sc...
Aug 30, Episode 363 Compositing, Photoshop
Completing the image in Photoshop Today we are completing this beer image in Photoshop. We cover the lighting effects as well as adding the splashes around the beer. The trick when doing this sort of composite is to know how much masking needs to be done. Too ...
Today is part 2 of our photographing beer series. Yesterday we showed you the photoshoot and how to light beer, and today we are showing you exactly what happens when you bring those photos into Photoshop. Today will be part 1 of editing in Photoshop, so be su...
Quick solutions to correct contrast and color levels in photoshop...
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