Come behind the scenes with us on one of our fashion shoots! These shoots can be intense, especially when everyone is on a strict time crunch.

Sometimes you find yourself wanting to add some interest to a backdrop in Photoshop and this episode is perfect for showing you how it is done. There are many ways to add interest to a Background, but this is one of the simplest and most effective.

More than any other Tool that we have at our disposal the liquify Tool has always been met with a special degree of ire. Liquify has been dubbed a great evil that has beset the foundations of society’s self esteem…

Getting your white balance exactly right can be tricky. We show you a quick method using Color Balance to correct Skin tones and get a nice base for further editing.

In today’s episode we show you how to get rid of those straps (or other similar details) in a very simple tutorial that will have you amazed at how far Photoshop has come.

Learn a Simple Technique for adding textures to your images. We are using multiple textures combined together to create the final effect.

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Photoshop  |  Photo Effects  |  Easy  |  15 mins  |  1 video

6 Sample Images

One of the problems you will encounter when photographing people is Skin redness. It usually shows up around the nose, close to the eyes and on the cheeks. Skin that looks too red can make people look tired, sick, old, or just bad.

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In this tutorial, Aaron shares a tip for recovering deleted files in Lightroom.

The Step and Repeat command is one of the coolest secrets Photoshop has to offer. You won’t need this feature every time you open Photoshop, but when you are creating Patterns, there is no better Tool.

In Part II of this tutorial we show you how to put the splatter Brush (created in Part 1) to good use.

In this episode we teach you how to use the Pen Tool to cut your subject out of their Background. The Pen Tool is a vital part of Photoshop and is used to create accurate selections.

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Photoshop  |  Photo Effects  |  Easy  |  15 mins  |  1 video

1 Photoshop Brush

Learn some great techniques that will take your text up a notch. Customize your fonts with style.

Join us behind the scenes as we cover what it took to create our “A Dark Force” composite.

Cutting out complex subjects is not easy! Join us in cutting out our main subject from Pro tutorial Dark Force.

Today we focus on POP ART! Aaron hops into Photoshop to create a Pop Art style graphic out of an image of a gun.

In today’s episode we continue creating the pop art image by filling in the Black and White Outline with Color.

We are going behind the scenes on our Pop Art shoot, and sharing some Insights on how to create this stylized image in a fun way.

In today’s episode you will learn how to use Curves to take control of your Black and White. We use show you how to analyze your Histogram and use input and output Channels to dial in your Light and dark Levels.

Learn 3 different methods for creating a Black and White image in Photoshop as well as the pros and cons of each.

Part 2: Here is a behind the scenes of our latest “High Fashion” pro tutorial. See how we lit these amazing images and learn how to do it yourself.

Sometimes you take a great picture but the sky isn’t doing it any justice. We’ll teach you how to cut out and replace that sky!

Part 1: Here is a behind the scenes of our latest “High Fashion” pro tutorial. See how we lit these amazing images and learn how to do it yourself.

First we recolor a dress from our Fashion shoot and then we adjust the colors of the background to match our new color scheme.

This tutorial is perfect for those images that have a strong backlight, such as when you are shooting into the sun. We show you how to enhance a lens flare and create lighting effects that will make your image more interesting.

In today’s episode we show you how to add layer FX to duplicates of a layer. The reason we use duplicates is to stack multiple effects.

Here are 10 Phlearn submitted questions answered by photographer and editor Rob Woodcox.

Rob Woodcox took over Phlearn this week and started editing images with Curves. He will show you his process of refining, and Styling the image to achieve the look he was going for.

Warning please do not try this without the proper safety measures. After Rob Woodcox broke into the Phlearn studio, he literally lit it on fire! Not only did he bring the heat, he shared some great Insights on being a conceptual surreal artist.

Bags and Blemishes can be tricky to remove. We will teach you how to take them right out!

In this episode we combine a few various techniques to make the tattoo look real.

In this episode we combine two different images into one amazing memory. The the main learning points consist of coloring, and masking.

Adding some Texture back to the Skin of a model can help bring Depth and life back to their Face. Perfection often looks fake, and character and Texture adds personality to images.

In this tutorial we show you how to use the Pen Tool to cut out your subject, and then do some work to recovery detail in the sky.

Learning how to create custom Brushes in Photoshop is a skill that will benefit many images. In this tutorial, we show you how to make a selection around a bird and promote it onto a new document in order to create the Brush.

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Photoshop  |  Photo Effects  |  Easy  |  15 mins  |  1 video

1 Custom Brush

In most cases, using the Color Ranges that exist naturally in a photo will help to bring out the best in the image. In this image we focus on adding orange to the top of the image and green to the bottom.

There are many ways to make an image Black and White in Photoshop. In most cases you will be best off using the “Black and White” Adjustment Layer.