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The world of photography is changing. Photographers are now expected to have their images retouched and modified. Hiring retouchers is expensive and takes a key creative process out of your hands.

Do you need to excel in Photoshop to produce great images? No, but it will increase your versatility and allow you to better accomplish your creative ideas.

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Re-Create a Classic
With master food and beverage photographer Rob Grimm
Skin retouching is an essential part of your workflow.
Build a city in Photoshop, run through it like a boss.
Do you believe in magic? Make others believe too.
Create images ready for Vogue. Master Color. Free Textures Included
Suspend people from their hair. Make images beautiful.
Learn how to shoot someone in your house and digitally dunk them underwater.
Not every image needs to make sense, sometimes just creating something amazing is ok.
Achieve the Impossible. Learn Unparalleled Techniques. Take Them Anywhere.
Cut someone out of their background, get them ready for Vogue.
Create backgrounds from scratch. Learn secrets of coloring. Composite in your Dad.
Make skin look like it glows. Learn to color with curves.
Take a journey to the arctic in Photoshop. Save $20,000.
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I own 18 of the Phlearn Pro Tutorials, and each one has taught me something new. Aaron is such ...

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There are a lot of photographers that are teaching these days. But none of them have the combin...

Pye Jirsa

Aaron Nace and the team at Phlearn have put together some amazing resources for photographers a...

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I can’t tell everyone how helpful Phlearn has been to me as a photographer. Its like an a...

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Phlearn’s free courses trump most of the paid options that are out there and the PRO ones...

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Phlearn got me out of my own slump. I was looking to learn some new PS skills but all the resou...
PRO Retouching
Perfect skin. Every time.
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PRO Retouching 5 Pack
If you are photographing people, this pack is essential! Being able to retouch skin will make your subjects and clients love you, bringing them back for more. We share all the industry secrets as well as techniques developed exclusively for these tutorials. Click here for more details.
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From concept, lighting, posing, wardrobe, prop building, camera settings, working with models, and creating lighting modifiers to post production in Lightroom and Photoshop!

Come on set with us as we take you through the entire process of creating this image. Over 2:40 Hours of intense and fun learning.
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Join us as we take you through the entire process of a photo shoot from lighting, posing, working with models, camera settings, creating a concept, building a shot, and post production for Four Images

These Photoshop Tutorials don't just teach you the How, but they also cover the Why. That means these concepts are universal and will apply to your images as well, even if you never shoot a nude in a studio.
This is a PRO Tutorial unlike any other. For the first time ever we are introducing one of the world's top food and beverage photographers to Phlearn and taking you through step by step of his entire photography process. Also included is a detailed 2 hour retouch of these amazing images.

If you are looking to become a great food and beverage photographer this PRO will blow you away and place you miles ahead of the competition.
Creating a pinup image is a great way to learn retouching, dodging and burning, body shaping, coloring, texturing and more.

Join us for this advanced two part tutorial taking our image from camera to pinup!
Retouch this amazing beauty image to perfection while learning how to master the pen tool, dodge and burn, create highlights, color, sharpening and more.

This exclusive PRO Tutorial is yours free just for signing up for our newsletter!
Create a stunning portrait and learn skills that you can use to enhance any of your images. Included textures and brush will make the job easier than ever before.

Take your images to the next level and learn to master LAB mode!
Learn how to manipulate your subject to bring our their best features, making anyone look amazing in no time.

We always focus on why you make certain changes, that way your knowledge is not limited to a specific photo. We give you the skills and knowledge you need for a lifetime of improvement.
Join Phlearn to find the cure and create an awesome image while you are at it. This spectacular tutorial covers skin retouching, creating and coloring light streaks, cutting people out, LAB mode, adding style and more!

20% of profits through 2012 are donated directly to breast cancer researchers devoted to finding the cure.
Learn how to edit in the style of successful commercial portrait photographers.

A Free included lighting diagram will help you get this look in camera, and the 1:30 HR Photoshop tutorial explains exactly how to complete it.
Learn how to take an image from straight out of the camera to a final concept in this INTERMEDIATE Photoshop Tutorial. You will learn how to color every part of an image independently, add textures and lighting effects, dodging and burning, sharpening, color theory and more!

FREE Custom Brush Included: This brush was made SPECIFICALLY for this type of retouching. We cover exactly how to use it, and why it is going to make professional retouching so much easier.

Learn how to analyze a face in order to determine how to retouch.
This tutorial covers everything you need to retouch a portrait. Often clients will want an image retouched to represent the best side of the subject.

If you are not doing it yourself, you may have to pay someone to do it. That gets really expensive..Save time and money by learning retouch for yourself.
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PRO Special Effects
Create anything. Amaze everyone.
PRO Pack
PRO Special Effects 5 Pack
This set of tutorials is perfect for anyone who wants to create special effects from scratch in Photoshop. You will learn how to take textures and apply them to skin, hang someone from the ceiling, combine a person with a mannequin and more! Click here for more details.
$124.99  Pack $99.99
This is a very detailed tutorial covering RAW conversions, color treatment, advanced editing and color work. If you are looking to add subtle or great effects to your image, this is a great lesson for you. We also cover some great clone stamp techniques applicable on any image.

Learn how to light an image, remove clothing, blend skin into objects, add light sources, retouch skin and more.

You will learn some great techniques on how to blend objects together, while keeping detail, and adding realistic transitions.
If you have ever needed to cut someone out of their background and place them onto a new one, this tutorial is perfect for you.

We cover very advanced techniques for cutting objects out, and creating amazing layer masks. We also go over some special techniques for matching color.
Learn how to take the texture from backgrounds and wrap it over your subject in this Phlearn PRO Tutorial. We discuss important concepts such as lighting, blending, colorizing, and more.

You will learn concepts in this tutorial that will allow you to blend any object into it's surroundings.
This is one of our most requested images for Phlearn PRO. This is a great class covering many advanced topics, and some hard Photoshop Techniques. We go over the lighting behind the images and the concept from beginning to end.

In this extended tutorial, we cover everything from lighting, lens usage, cutting things out from their backgrounds, adding light & color, working with shadows and highlights, skin retouching, great depth into the pen tool, composing an image & More.

Watch as we take normal images and transform them into an amazing scene
PRO Compositing
Create worlds. Defy possibility.
PRO Pack
PRO Compositing 5 Pack
Learning to composite separate images together well opens up a world of possibilities with your images! Build complete backgrounds and put your subject into amazing places. Click here for more details.
$124.99  Pack $99.99
In this 2:40 HR very advanced Photoshop tutorial we cover every detail in creating a realistic composite from advanced selections, exposure and color blending to stylization and creating custom brushes.

BONUS: Free included brushes, compositing action and light flare textures!
Every night when the boy falls asleep his best friend Bakster comes to life and they go on imaginary adventures. Make these dreams become a reality with this special 2:45 hour advanced Photoshop Tutorial.

Free included compositing action and 3 Photoshop brushes make creating composites easier than ever!
Phlearn-PRO-Banished-Mermaid
Anything you can imagine you can create. From building a background made of many different photos to creating a mermaid, this 3:30 hour advanced Photoshop Tutorial has it all.

Bonus included action specially designed to make compositing your images together easily!
This special 3:30 hour Photoshop Tutorial is guaranteed to launch your knowledge to a whole new level! Join us as we create an entire image from scratch, incorporating over 20 photos, CG wings, lighting effects and perpective creation.

Free behind the scenes video included explaining light setup, shooting on a green screen, matching perspective for a composite, camera settings, shooting tethered, and more!
In this INTERMEDIATE Photoshop Tutorial, you will learn secrets for creating a glowing light, compositing multiple exposures and creating a scene.

You will learn every detail necessary to go from beginning to end in this special compositing and lighting tutorial!
This is one of our most requested images for Phlearn PRO. This is a great class covering many advanced topics, and some hard Photoshop Techniques.

We go over the lighting behind the images and the concept from beginning to end.
There are some secrets to making a composite perfect, and that is what this photoshop tutorial is all about. We go over every detail on how to take an image that was shot in a studio and put it in a new background seamlessly.

You will learn an amazing technique developed specifically for this tutorial on sizing your subject perfectly every time.
Using stock images found on the internet is a great way to make the impossible come to life without spending too much money. You will learn what is essential about taking photos to match the stock image, and how to composite the two images together seamlessly.

Master reflections, shadows, hair, selections, color and more in this 2 hour tutorial!
The BIG selling point on any image like this is always how much depth you can create. If you look at an image and it really seems to go off into the distance, you are far more likely to believe it.

It would have been hard enough to make an image of a girl underwater with jellyfish, but we wanted to take it a step further and do something that no one has ever done. Make the jellyfish actually LIGHT the model.
You are much closer to being able to create an image like this than you think. You will learn books of information in this special 3:20 Hr long tutorial.

The original image was taken with a film camera, in a living room with lamps used for lighting. Chad had a great concept and posed the subject (his father) well, knowing that all of the magic could be done in Photoshop.
In this PRO Photoshop Tutorial, we cover everything from the photo shoot, lighting, methods during the shoot, as well as the Photoshop. If you have ever wanted to make something float in your images, this is the best way to make it happen.

In this tutorial, we talk about the important things to think about when lighting someone for a specific look.
If you have ever needed to cut someone out of their background and place them onto a new one, this tutorial is perfect for you. We cover very advanced techniques for cutting objects out, and creating amazing layer masks. We also go over some special techniques for matching color.

PRO Perfect Color
Perfect color. Every time.
PRO Pack
PRO Perfect Color 5 Pack
One of the greatest things Photoshop has to offer is coloring your image exactly how you want it. This pack is designed to get you perfect color every time. Click here for more details.
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Learn how to add clouds and dramatically alter the sky of your images to bring depth and mood, even if there is a tree in the way.

This Intermediate Photoshop tutorial covers everything you need to know about coloring and stylizing an image.
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Add amazing color to your images and create something that is sure to stand out from a sea of images!

Join us as we edit two images from start to finish and cover every detail in between.
Learn how to perfect color as we cover two amazing images from start to finish! Every light and color explained in a way that will make you able to bring drama and interest into every image you create.

Whether it is placing you above your competition, making brides happier, or bringing a Film Noir series to life, these techniques are universal.
Fashion images often involve a lot of color subtlety, it is what sets them apart from editorial images. Most of the time, the highlight and shadow colors have been completely changed.

In this photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to to take a normal photo of a plant, cut it out of it's background, color it correctly, blur it, and add it to the foreground of another image.
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.

Not only do we include 12 free High Resolution Textures, but we also go in detail on how to use them with any image!
On top of being a very detailed composite image, we also focus on skin retouching on a broad scale, perfect for full body images.

You will learn how to color skin and backgrounds, and make everything blend together using a color palette. This tutorial also covers color theory, and how to use colors to your advantage. There are many things to think about when creating an image, and color is a big one.
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.

Bonus: 8 Free Textures, 1 Brush, and 3 Curves Included.
Never before has there been a Photoshop Tutorial like this one. Created with help from the Phamily, this image is a part of us all. In this very in depth tutorial we cover every single step from choosing images to coloring, and adding amazing distortion effects.

If you have ever wanted to achieve the impossible, this Photoshop tutorial will get you closer to it than anything else. Every single pixel of this image has been altered significantly to produce a stunning result.
Join Phlearn to take on a very difficult composite image. If you have any issues with compositing, the techniques covered in this in depth tutorial are sure to help you.

In this advanced Photoshop Tutorial, we cover how to create a background, and what is important in a photo shoot to make sure your subject will blend into it. You will learn how to add atmosphere to a photo, how to change light directions, how to match colors, how to create shadows & more.
PRO Training
Designed to get you up and running.
This amazing 3:00 Hour guide explains everything a photographer needs to know about Photoshop!

If you have never opened Photoshop in your life, you will have everything you need to create amazing work in Photoshop after this tutorial. We focus on getting to know every aspect of the program, and learning how each tool works.