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The Power of the Brush Tool Think that the brush tool is good for nothing but doodling glasses over people’s faces? Think again. By opening up the custom brush settings window, the brush becomes a powerful, multi-purpose tool. In this image by Jerome Day...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why you should be very selective about how you edit, and stylizing a wedding image sent over by Dan...
See how to brighten and darken certain areas of an image to create a look of more even lighting and shadows in photoshop...
This episode covers the best ways to add color into an old photograph using a combination of different layers and blends modes...
Apr 03, Episode 268 Photoshop, Retouching
Today we go over some tips and tricks to dodging and burning a perfect image....
Apr 02, Episode 267 Photoshop, Retouching
The best techniques I've found to fix stray hairs and brighten up certain areas using the clone stamp and different brush settings....
Halloween is back, and we are creating scar tissue from scratch. Thanks to Petter, Chad & Eric
We start by creating a custom brush to bring in some variability in the stroke. Things like scattering, size jitter, opacity jitter are a huge help in creating ef...
This is one of those times when I really love being able to make gross nasty images in Photoshop. They are so out of taste, but crazy fun to make. This being halloween week, and the push from my crazy Phlearners means we get to be crazy....
It is official, Phlearn is now in Chicago!
Thanks for your support on this journey, it has been an absolute blast, and I can't wait to see everything the city has to offer. Along with a big move, you are going to get some good and some bad. For the most par...
Today we are covering some of the most important things to know when compositing an image. This is one of the hardest things to do in Photoshop. There are many variables involved in making an image like this look realistic....
Thanks to Stacey117 we are making this cool image come together. She sent over a question and a reference image in a comment in yesterday's Phlearn. If you would like your question answered, do the same....
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