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Dec 16, Episode 198 Inspiration, Video
Second Ever Portfolio Critique
Chris, Iram, and I are very proud to bring you the second ever portfolio critique on Phlearn! The goal of this critique is to help not only Chis, but the whole Phamily become better....
Dec 02, Episode 188 Inspiration, Video
First Ever Portfolio Critique
Philippe and I are proud to bring you the first ever Portfolio Critique on Phlearn. Philippe contacted me a couple of weeks ago with the same issue that many of us face. People around you tell you that you are doing great, but ...
Oct 21, Episode 157 Video
In today’s episode we talk about success and the things necessary in order to accomplish your goals. We stay away from the concrete and go more towards the abstract, however the concepts we talk about today apply to business, life, and general success. J...
Thanks to Stef for sending over this image as well as asking us to add eyelashes. To add eyelashes to this image, we are copying existing eyelashes from another image. To do this we use select color range to select out the darks from the eyelashes, and on a ne...
Today we are creating a vignette on a photo thanks to Tony. Basically we are create a curves adjustment layer making the image darker. Then we add a marquee selection around the center of the image, and invert the layer mask. Then we blur the layer mask to sof...
Thanks to Chloe who asks how to make fairy dust. Today we are adding some sparkles of light in a forest. To do this we are doing a little bit of prep to our image by darkening it with levels, and changing the saturation with a hue/sat adj layer....
Welcome to the 4th of July! We are celebrating with some fireworks. To photograph fireworks, there are a couple of tricks. First we lock our focus to infinity, so we don't have any focus issues in the dark. From there we want to make sure everything is in fram...
Today we are answering Barrett's question on how to replace one head with a different head in a photo shoot. This can be pretty easy if the photos fit together pretty well. If the images look nothing alike, it can be pretty difficult....
Today we are answering Lauren Parker's question on how to make curly hair longer. To do this we are using a clone stamp tool to sample his existing hair, then changing the blending mode of the tool as well as the layer to DARKEN. From there we need to make a s...
Today's episode is dedicated to Cassius, who asks how to wrap light around a subject. This is a great question. You can do this in camera by blowing out the background. If you didn't get the effect just how you want it in camera, we go over how to do something...
In today’s episode we are answering Aileen’s question on retouching. We do teach a class on skin retouching, so we couldn’t cover everything. We decided to focus on adding definition to cheek bones, which is something a lot of people miss whe...
Thanks for all the support you have given Phearn, we hope we can repay all the wonderful things you have all done for us. In today's episode we are covering how to add a tattoo to a person, in this case a baby. ...
Thanks everyone for entering this week's contest, the entries were so awesome. We are so proud of all of you!...
We have had so many people ask how to create rain from scratch we couldn't ignore it any longer. To make the rain we open our brush menu and change the following: Turn on Shape dynamics, and size jitter all the way up. We bring the roundness to 2%, and the ang...
Today we are answering a question from Pere Navarro. We are adding a shadow from scratch. In this case the shadow is on a sphere, and we are starting simple....
Today we are answering a question from Alex on how to create tears. This was a really cool challenge, because we have never done it before. To create tears on someone, first we found a reference photo of someone who had real tears....
Today we are talking about using the pen tool. It is one of the harder tools to master in photoshop, but it is well worth learning how to use. It can be used to make any shape you can think of well. Those shapes can create objects, cut things out of their back...
We are announcing some great changes in Phlearn. Each episode from now will be answering your questions, to help you achieve your goals. Ask your questions in a comment below, and we will make a Phlearn episode answering them....
Today we are going over a very basic way to do a levitation shoot. Jumping. This is really easy and can give some great results with or without some photoshop....
This short episode is devoted to a remarkable app called Photosynth :)...
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