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Cleaning Up Your Background It can be tough to see if your white background really is 100% white. Often times what looks white or black on your computer screen is just a shade off or it contains patches of other colors or dirt. In today’s episode we cove...
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...
Adding Style Congrats to Chris Neel for winning this week’s contest! This is his image and we are happy to edit it. When working on post-production you have many choices as far as the direction you want to take an image. Will you make it black and white?...
Why you should be very selective about how you edit, and stylizing a wedding image sent over by Dan...
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...
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....
See the best ways to build up effects using custom brushes, color tone an image, and more in today's start to finish edit...
See the best ways to tackle under and over exposed areas without desaturating an image, as well as add in color for added effect and stylizing your photos...
See how finishing touches can easily take a photo from good to great with these 3 techniques...
Curves and Levels are the bread and butter of photo editing, but it can be difficult to know which one to use. Today we analyze both, and give the strengths and weakness of each. I also cover when I use levels and when I use curves, and how to make the process...
Dec 22, Episode 202 Photoshop, Retouching
How To Edit Family Photos
This episode is perfect for anyone with a family...
I edit a family photo of my brother Tyler, his wife Annie, and their baby Cooper. This is great not only because these people are special to me, but this is the exact thing tha...
Learn how to repair a photo that has been torn, folded, faded, and stained. You will see how using a couple of simple tools can take a photo from Torn to Reborn! (Bonus points for cheesy rhyme)...
Today’s Episode was a suggestion from Julie! She wanted to edit images in a similar style to Cindy Prins, who is a great portrait photographer. She is looking to get a soft look. This is a great topic, because it is a type of editing that is very good in...
Today's episode is dedicated to Cassius, who asks how to wrap light around a subject. This is a great question. You can do this in camera by blowing out the background. If you didn't get the effect just how you want it in camera, we go over how to do something...
In this super long installment of Phlearn, we are going over photoshopping a person onto a different background. This can be as easy or hard as you want it to be. To make things easier on ourselves we photographed Kat on a white background. Cutting her out is ...
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