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Julia Kuzmenko McKimI 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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Griffin BesteI 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.
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Apr 02 Interview, Written Interview
Let’s start off with a serious question. In a perfect world, what kind of sandwich would you be eating right now? I just finished a vege burrito so I’d probably just eat another one of those. Or peanut butter and nutella for dessert. Did you go to ...
Apr 01 Contest
This Week’s Contest: Shallow Depth of Field The theme for this week is shallow depth of field, so make sure to submit your images shot at a wide aperture. The Canon 50mm f/1.8 and Nikon 50mm f/1.8 are both amazing and inexpensive lenses for creating out ...
Concept Since the dawn of time the man cave has been revered as a place of masculinity and strength. Our goal was to bring this subject out from the depths and get to what man caves are really made of. Lighting The lighting for this shoot had to be extremely s...
Mar 29 Weekend Inspiration
Hello everyone and welcome to our 38th edition of Weekend Inspiration! In this week’s edition we have 25 photos from both amateur and professional photographers, as well as some images from the Phamily. These images are gathered weekly from websites like...
Mar 28 Interview, Video Interview
View Part One of Rob’s Interview This is part two of a two part interview with product, food, and beverage photographer Rob Grimm. Rob has been working as a professional photography in the advertising field for 20 years and has worked with large names su...
Mar 27 Compositing, Photoshop
Color + Perspective + Exposure = The Magic Combination When bringing part of one photo into another, it is absolutely necessary that you match the colors and perspective to make it look like it belongs there. We start with two photos, with two completely diffe...
Mar 27 Review
Overall Thoughts So right off the bat this is an incredibly well-done DVD series. There’s like 27 hours of content in it. It’s all extremely professional and your host is Post-Production Pye. What I really loved about this is it’s not like a money grab, ...
Mar 26 Interview, Written Interview
Ashley Lebedev, of Bottle Bell Photography, is a 29 year old Artist & Fine Art Photographer, specializing in conceptual portraiture. After attending school for Commercial Photography, Ashley chose to venture away from conventional photographic style, and d...
Mar 25 Photoshop, Retouching
Clipping Masks After we’ve brushed over the shadows underneath the eye, it’s important that skin texture we make is applied only to the brushed area. Using a clipping mask is a great way to achieve a seamless transition between the original skin an...
Mar 25 Contest
This Week’s Contest The theme of this week’s contest is close up. You can use a macro lens such as the Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro or a wide angle lens like Nikon’s 14-24mm f/2.8. (both Nikon and Canon manufacture their own macro and wide angle l...
Mar 22 Weekend Inspiration
Hello everyone, and welcome to our 37th edition of Weekend Inspiration! This week we have 25 awesome photos to show you from both amateur and professional photographers, and of course, some images from the Phamily. These images are gathered weekly from website...
This is part one of a two part interview with product, food, and beverage photographer Rob Grimm. Rob has been working as a professional photography in the advertising field for 20 years and has worked with large names such as Bacardi, Energizer, and Budweiser...
Mar 21 Written Article
Napoleon Hill wrote: When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more towards your coveted goal” (Think and Grow Rich p.83) Perhaps you have not found the success in your photography care...
Phlearn turns 2 years old today. These last two years have been the most important years of my life. I have learned more than I ever thought and I have failed at almost everything I have tried. I even failed at giving up, and that is the only reason you are re...
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...
Mar 19 Interview, Written Interview
Today on Phlearn we’ve got something a little different to show you. We have a story presented by Rob Woodcox. Rob is a 22 year old photographer born in Texas and raised in Michigan. He recently graduated from Washtenaw Community College with an Associat...
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