How To Use Blend Modes To Totally Revamp Your Photography | Brilliant Work...
He says, as a closing statement, that he hopes this tutorial has inspired you to explore blend modes more. He, is Jimmy McIntyre, and he needn’t hope, because it has, and I’ll bet for you it will. In...
View ArticleAdobe Files Suit Against Forever 21 For Piracy – Autodesk & Corel Become...
What does it mean when a multi-billion dollar company allegedly ignores legal boundaries of copyright of a software company and widely uses and distributes pirated software within their business? Well...
View ArticlePhotography Actions and Presets Are The Devil! Or Are They? The Benefits of...
You occasionally see comments within the photographic community similar to the title of this article, “Actions and Presets are the Devil!” Well, perhaps not the devil, but you may have heard it said...
View ArticleJulia Kuzmenko McKim on Mastering Brushes For Dodge & Burn Work
Photography is a sexy field, isn’t it? (Rhetorical). No really, to those who aren’t photographers, we can appear to have this sort of unashamedly fun vocation, devoid of the nitty gritty minutiae that...
View ArticleHow To Save Your Images To The Web, And Look Like You Intended
It is a common problem that is discussed on nearly every social network, and on nearly every photography forum: How to save your images for the web so that they look the best when viewed on Facebook,...
View ArticleOld School Photo-Editing | Darkroom Techniques That Gave Birth To Photoshop...
Photoshop is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a little fanfare, and that makes sense as there is a lot to celebrate. By any measure, Photoshop is certainly a success, given that it’s the last...
View ArticleHow To Fix Flyaway Hairs In Photoshop
Dealing with hair during your post-processing can be such a pain. This is especially true if you can’t afford to have an assistant or hair stylist on hand to help keep it under control during the...
View ArticlePhlearn Pro Tutorial Review: The Beginner’s Guide to Levitation
If you’ve spent any amount of time online looking through images on websites like 500px, you’ve probably come across a number of amazing levitation images. “How do they do that?” you may have wondered....
View ArticleLiquify Filter: You’re Doing it Wrong | A Simple Guide On How To Properly Use It
The Liquify Filter in Photoshop is a powerful tool. It can make a jiggly arm, slim; a chin disappear with a flick of your mouse and turn a celebrity into a waif mere seconds. It’s like a plastic...
View ArticleHow To Add Atmosphere To Your Images In Photoshop Without Presets
When anyone embarks on the journey to be a photographer, to really nail the craft and have it be a creative expression of self, it’s hard to imagine that they see a clinically executed ‘properly...
View ArticleTake Your Wildlife Photos To Another Level By Enhancing The Eyes
It is not uncommon for photographers to touch up a subject’s eyes after a portrait or wedding session, but did you know that doing so on your wildlife photos can have a profound impact as well? Steve...
View ArticleGet Color Right In Your Images By Geeking It Out
One of the issues we’ll run into now in a digital age is that computers are generally going to render things like color differently from the human eye, though we are always trying to capture and...
View ArticleCreating a Logo and Placing It In Perspective | Phlearn
Oh, the joys of logo creation. As a new photographer, we look for any way we can to save some money. It’s expensive to start a business and so we’ll rent lenses, buy the cheapest business cards, search...
View ArticlePhotoshop Trick Using the BW Adjustment Layer To Brilliantly Alter Color
One of the most frustrating aspects of Photoshop is that its abilities are so far reaching, that to master it (if it’s possible to do such a thing), requires a tremendous amount of time and...
View ArticleNew Adobe CC Updates – Initial Thoughts and Impressions
Adobe CC’s new massive update was released a little under two weeks ago, bringing some new features to both Lightroom and Photoshop. I imagine, like me, most of you have downloaded the updates and...
View ArticleA Quick Photoshop Technique to Enhance Details In Your Image
When I first started in photography, there was this trend where images were super crisp and very sharp. It was abused, of course, (as Photoshop often is) and more often than not, you’d see severely...
View ArticleAstropad | Turn Your iPad Into a Wacom Cintiq-Like Graphic Tablet For $20
It’s somewhat incredible, if not entirely predictable ,that the iPad may turn out to be a photographer’s closest friend. I remember when it was being released, and I asked Apple reps in three...
View ArticleHow To Remove A Tattoo In Photoshop | Aaron Nace
Ever had a night out where the whole purpose of the evening’s debauchery was to get hopped up enough make some bad decisions? Of course you have, you saucy thing. That bad decision may have been the...
View Article5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Photoshop
Photoshop is one of those tools that most people have heard of, but few know how to properly use. It’s a very powerful beast. It can be used to turn your images into magical worlds or you can use it...
View ArticleEasily Create Great HDR Images From A Single RAW File
One of the most frustrating trends in photography, in my somewhat humble opinion, is HDR photography. Not that it exists, not that it doesn’t have its place and use because it does, and not even that...
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