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Through a couple easy techniques, you can use Clipping Masks, Smart Objects, and Filters to create your very own skin textures. Add seamless skin texture to you projects.
Channels are great for making selections that would otherwise be very difficult to make.
By duplicating the layer and using a Layer Mask, we extend the wall up, but the projector still needs some work.
See all the post processing techniques used in the Phlearn Pro Tutorial: Fashion Trip
Today we’re editing an amazing self portrait by Amelia Fletcher.
We’ve wanted to do a pinup shoot for a long time, but we also wanted to make it stand out from all of the other pinup photos out there by adding a concept to it. Join us behind the scene.
Yesterday we took you through our process in coming up with the perfect lighting for a portrait of Chris, Phlearn’s CFO, and today we’ll be taking you through the steps we took in Photoshop to bring our final image together!
For an editorial-Style headshot, we decided we wanted lighting inspired by the likes of editorial photographers such as Martin Schoeller. We had to go through about five different lighting setups before we finally found one we really liked!
A big part of being a professional photographer is making sure your Workflow is as efficient as possible. Even if you’re not a professional, using Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop will drastically shorten the amount of time it takes to Edit Photos.
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 get a lot of people asking us what the difference is between the Healing Brush Tool and the Clone Stamp. While they both have similar uses, there is a Difference in how these Tools get the job done.
In this episode we discuss something that sounds extremely boring but is actually quite interesting: Light Falloff.
It’s always great to have shadows in your photographs to add definition, but sometimes they become too dark and Subtract from the detail in your image.
Step behind the scenes of our Film Noir Shoot. From Planning to Editing!
It can be hard to pump up the Colors in a photograph without making it look unnatural. In RGB mode, changing your Colors in Curves will also produce changes in Brightness and Exposure. To fix this, we can easily switch to LAB Mode.
In this behind the scenes video you will learn how to set up lighting for a full length portrait as well as a headshot.
We’ll be editing Jason’s image and showing you how to make your subject stand out better from the Background by using some simple Coloring techniques.
In order to make the existing Highlights in this image stand out even more, first we make the Lights and Midtones of the image darker using a Levels Adjustment Layer.
For adding Light rays to your image, make sure you first have an image that will properly support light coming through. You want to have an image that is either lit from the back or from the side.
When you increase your ISO on a digital camera, your processor amplifies the signal it receives from the sensor to make it stronger, much like an amplifier on a stereo, it makes a quiet signal much louder.
One of the largest challenges we had to overcome to bring this concept to life was to design and build the main character. Being a photographer, this did not come entirely naturally to me, so I had to pay extra attention to my goals as a creator.
The advantage to using modeling lights as opposed to strobes is that you see exactly what you are going to get, there is not guesswork.
Dan Winters is a great photographer who produces gripping work. 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 try to reproduce it.
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.
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.
In this episode we’re going over how to Light a bottle of beer. This is great for brushing up on your product photography skills.
These will make the biggest Difference! Curves can be used to easily adjust Light Levels and Colors in your images.
Today we work on a user submitted landscape image. We are going to add some lights and effects requested by Sam.
In yesterday’s episode we showed you everything you need to know for shooting video to be used in a cinemagraph, and today we’ll bring it all together in Photoshop!
Today’s episode will cover everything you need to know about shooting for a cinemagraph, and tomorrow we’ll cover how to bring it all together in Photoshop!
Giving objects a Reflection in post becomes a bit more of a difficult task when the bottom of the still life (in this case, a Coca-Cola can) is curved.
We’re going to talk about everything that there is to know about Curves, and also we’re going to show you some cool ways to Color your images using Curves.
In today’s episode we’re going to be editing an image taken by Angela of the Phlearn team.
How to fix the shadows underneath people’s eyes.
Photoshop | Retouching | Easy | 15 mins | 1 video
We are going to focus on what to edit in Photoshop. The first thing I noticed when looking at this photo is that the paintings in the Background are a little distracting.
Photoshop | Photo Editing | Easy | 15 mins | 1 video