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Change the Letters, See the Beauty In today’s episode we bring you a fun technique to change letters in photographs. This can be used on ANY picture that has text such as photos of signs, billboards, etc. See what shenanigans you can come up with and sha...
Combine Multiple Photos for Maximum Scenery If you’ve ever been to a beautiful place, you know that it can be hard to capture the entire scene in one photograph. By bringing together multiple photographs, you’re able to combine different elements f...
Shooting Background Plates When shooting a composite, it’s always important to start out with your background. This gives you the framework of what your image will look like and how your subject will interact with their surroundings. We decided to shoot ...
Oct 29, Episode 388 Compositing, Contest, Photoshop, Popular
Grass Brush We are including the brush we made in today’s episode to make your life a bit easier. The next time you have to blend an area of grass, just grab this brush and get to work. Bonus: Use this brush with the Clone Stamp Tool! This Week’s ...
Oct 03, Episode 378 Behind the Scenes, Photography, Video
Behind the Scenes Today we have an awesome BTS video for our upcoming PRO Tutorial. For the first time ever we will be including a full length video in the Phlearn PRO, explaining our lighting setup, working with the model, shooting on a green screen, action s...
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Aug 30, Episode 363 Compositing, Photoshop
Completing the image in Photoshop Today we are completing this beer image in Photoshop. We cover the lighting effects as well as adding the splashes around the beer. The trick when doing this sort of composite is to know how much masking needs to be done. Too ...
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Aug 29, Episode 362 Compositing, Photoshop, Post-Production, Video
Today is part 2 of our photographing beer series. Yesterday we showed you the photoshoot and how to light beer, and today we are showing you exactly what happens when you bring those photos into Photoshop. Today will be part 1 of editing in Photoshop, so be su...
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Aug 07, Episode 349 Photoshop, Post-Production, Tools, Video
At the Phlearn studio we love to Photoshop. At the Phlearn studio we ESPECIALLY love to Photoshop when a unicorn is involved. A couple of days ago at the studio we did a quick photoshoot where the final result would be a composite of the people in the studio t...
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Welcome to our final episode on remaking the Total Recall movie poster! This has been a fun week showing you how to create this movie poster from scratch. This is Part 5 of 5, if you missed out on any of the other parts of this tutorial all of the links are be...
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Jul 30, Episode 344 Compositing, Photography, Photoshop
We're on Part 4 of our series of recreating the Total Recall movie poster! In this series we're going over everything from the lighting, the set-up, the composition, all of the elements, editing the image and everything in between. This is Part 4 of 6....
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Jul 26, Episode 343 Compositing, Photoshop, Post-Production
Cutting Out Your Subject The first thing tip for replacing a background is to use a solid backdrop. Try to choose something similar to the background you will then be placing your subject on since color and light will reflect (Ex: using a green backdrop will g...
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See why doing as much as possible in camera, and lighting and background, make a big difference with composite work. ...
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We're doing the Total Recall poster! This episode covers all the necessary first steps....
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Jun 06, Episode 311 Compositing, Photoshop
New Additions to the Team Say hi to two new additions to the Phlearn team, Jenna Petrone and Angela Butler. We are so excited to have this much talent in one place! Cut Anything Out of its Background in Photoshop Today we are covering how to cut a person out o...
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Everything from hair and makeup to shooting the models in the studio! Each image is a composite from Mrs. James Ward Thorne's miniature rooms at the Art Institute...
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May 02, Episode 290 Compositing, Photoshop, Post-Production
Quick and easy compositing...
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