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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 th...
Skin retouching is an essential part of your workflow.
Learn how to edit in the style of successful commercial portrait photographers.

You will learn how to cut a person out of their background including getting the difficult parts like hair. We cover the most important parts about replacing a sky in a photo including lighting and color.

In this special wedding PRO Tutorial, we cover how to edit 2 different images, adding color and style to each. Learn how to add textures, blurs, and light to an image making it appear more romantic.

On top of being a very detailed composite image, we also focus on skin retouching on a broad scale, perfect for full body images.

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Create images ready for Vogue. Master Color. Free Textures Included.
Transform any image into 1970s vintage style with this PRO Action. As simple as a few clicks, we take care of all the details.

Quickly choose from one of 8 different looks or combine them together to create a completely new style!

Make any set of eyes look amazing with this simple action! We provide everything you need in one step to bring excitement and beauty to your portraits.

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I remember having Aaron's images in my collection of inspirational artwork on my laptop when I came to Australia to study Photography in 2008. I had no idea how that awesomeness could be created and was dying to find out. Needless to say, when Phlearn was born it was like a dream come true!

I absolutely love how Aaron is laid back and fun in his video tutorials, it just makes you feel like you're hanging out with a friend, who's teaching you some cool stuff - it's easy to comprehend, it's not tiring and every video is jam packed with golden nuggets of priceless information. The entire website is full of brilliant educational materials.

I wish Phlearn was created 5 years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time learning Photoshop!

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I can't tell everyone how helpful Phlearn has been to me as a photographer. Its like an addiction to a substance that helps you get further in life rather than holding you down or burdening you with expenses. Phlearn serves inspiration in a large daily dose of awesomeness; pure fun and light hearted honesty in every free episode made my the team.

The Phlearn Pros, of which I own 15+ of are the most helpful resource of photography tutorials that teach the things that I want to learn; I have never came across anything on the internet like it, and I even own a Lynda account.

I would recommend Phlearn to every skill level of photoshop user, from causal beginner to advanced photoshop masters. I would like to thank Aaron Nace for his enormous contribution to the photography/photoshop world and would consider him one of my greatest inspirations in this field. That being said, I will continue to support the community and Phlearn as a whole as long as I can even past a high level of photoshop proficiency.
These HD Textures make it easy to add bokeh to any image. Simply place the texture over the image and change your blending mode to screen. Done.

Make any photo look aged in seconds by adding these distressed paper textures to them.

Use smoke and fog to add depth to your images. Use it to add steam to a photograph of food, make a cigarette look lit, create an explosion, surround a person in smoke and more.

Are the skies a little boring in your images? We created this special Sky pack full of amazing vivid images that are perfect for dropping into your existing photos.

Create a portrait to match a giant ego.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st edition of Weekend Inspiration. This week we have 25 inspirational photographs from both amateur and professional photographers, as well as photographs from the Phamily! So have a look, and tell us your favorites! Enjoy! ...
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Nov 29, Episode 398 Battle, Inspiration, Opinion
Entries All of these images are great, and choosing the winner is going to very tough. Be sure to vote below, and leave a comment stating why you voted the way you did! Fill out my online form....
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Welcome back, Phlearn Phamily! Again, my name is Brendan Shanley, and recently the team at Lost In Concert—a web-based music publication—launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce an epic 160-page book featuring amazing concert photography and artist inter...
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Today at Phlearn we have something a little different for our Tuesday Interview.  We’re featuring brilliant and inspirational photographer Peter Kemp. We have a brand new series from Peter to show you including a peak behind the scenes. The project is c...
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Nov 26, Episode 397 Contest, Photoshop, Styling
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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Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to the 20th edition of Weekend Inspiration! For 20 weeks (wow, that’s a long time) we’ve been bringing a kick start to your weekend with 25 amazing images from photographers’ from all over the world. Within week...
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So, you wanna shoot a rock show? Of course you do. It sounds awesome, right? Getting the up close and intimate shots of artists as they rock out literally inches away from you. Getting into the show for free. Meeting the bands and photographing their portrait....
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Nov 19, Episode 395 Contest, Most Popular, Photoshop, Styling
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...
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Welcome to the 19th edition of Weekend Inspiration. This week we have 25 photographs from both amateur and professional photographers as well as members of the Phamily! What are you waiting for? Check out these 25 amazing images, and be inspired! If that wasn&...
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Nov 15, Episode 395 Battle, Inspiration, Most Popular
Entries All of these images are great, and choosing the winner is going to very tough. Be sure to vote below, and leave a comment stating why you voted the way you did! Fill out my online form....
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Nov 14, Episode 394 Behind the Scenes, Lighting, Photography
Using Modeling Lights Most modern strobe lights will come with modeling lights. These are basically just lightbulbs made to mimic the light of a strobe. Although we focus on using the modeling lights that are a part of strobes in this video, you can use tradit...
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There are many articles out there on how to become a professional photographer, this is not a how to guide. Becoming a professional photographer isn’t really that hard as long as you do list one (see below).  I am sure you could become a professional ph...
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Nov 12, Episode 393 Contest, Enhancing, Photoshop, Video
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 ...
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Nov 09 Business, Video
Winner! Congrats to Shantel Rich for winning Phlearn PROs for life!!!!...
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This week we have 25 incredibly inspiring photos from around the web to share with you. We have photos from professional photographers, amateur photographers, and of course- some from the Phamily. So go ahead! Check out these photos gathered from Flickr, 500px...
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Nov 08, Episode 393 Battle, Inspiration
Vote On! After watching today’s episode, let us know who you think wins the battle. Vote below and be sure to leave a comment as to why you voted the way you did. Your insight could really help someone. Entries: Franz V Marios Tziortzis Fill out my onlin...
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