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Photoshop Basics: Recreating Realistic Eyelashes
To learn more tips and tricks, tune into Photoshop Week 2014 this February 24-28 on creativeLIVE. When you RSVP for the event, you’ll receive a coupon for 15% off any purchase at the SLR Lounge store...
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JPEG Formats: Do You Know Why You Choose The Ones You Do?
I have a friend in Toronto who routinely looks to me as some sort of photography oracle, ready to provide her with photo news that hasn’t happened yet, and to provide wise counsel on any photographic...
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Phlearn Pro Tutorial ‘The Perfect Composite’ Review
During my 15 year graphic design career, I’ve created my share of photo composites using Photoshop. As with anything in Photoshop, there are numerous techniques for achieving the same result, but,...
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Make Your Own Sign Or Signature Into a Watermark in 10 Min (No Scanner Needed)
The idea of claiming/protecting your imagery as intellectual property is no new pursuit; there are, in fact, newer countries. Painters and artists have been scribing their names on their works for...
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Understanding Retouching: Take Advice from a Make-up Artist
Growing up with a single mother and lots of aunts, a considerable portion of my childhood was spent around women readying their faces, to face the day. The cycle continued with girlfriends past and...
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The Photoshop Tool You Thought You Knew & How To Really Use It
It’s the ubiquitous photo editing tool that we all know and love or hate. Since inception in 1988 Photoshop has moved from basic grayscale displaying to rendering anything from 3D objects for printing...
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Photoshop 101 and 201 Tutorials by Phlearn Now Available in the SLR Lounge Store
We are very excited to announce the addition of the Phlearn Photoshop 101 and 102 courses in the SLR Lounge Store. This Bundle of PRO Tutorials will make you fluent in the language of Photoshop!...
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How To Replicate The Color Palette From Any Photo Or Famous Painting In...
That title may seem a little strange or brash, and by no means am I condoning theft. The point I’m arriving at, is that we can use readily available tools to emulate works we draw inspiration from. If...
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Getting The Commercial Editorial Smooth Hair Look Is Easier Than You Think
Doing a photo shoot, no matter how hard you try to control it, is always going to have variables. Any photographer and retoucher knows that getting it right during the picture making process is key,...
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Adding Vintage Edge Burn Easily In Photoshop
It’s Coachella, again, so our Instagram feeds, Tumblr rolls, and Facebook pages are just flourishing with vintage hipster cool. Or uncool. I forget which. So it seems only fitting to share something...
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Use Photoshop To Automate And Blog-Ready Your Images
We do our Adobe products over here at SLR Lounge. Actually, who in their right mind wouldn’t? Photoshop and Lightroom are the usual culprits when it comes to editing. Lightroom tends to be the simpler,...
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How To Add Realistic Bokeh In Photoshop
I feel it prudent to start off by suggesting that when it comes to DOF, it’s going to be better getting it right in camera. However, not getting it quite right, or deciding after the fact, shouldn’t...
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Shoot In Color, Think In Black & White | Make Your Skies And More Pop
I see in color, but I like to shoot black and white. Strangely, what I’ve found is to improve the color photography, I actually think in black and white. I posted a while ago about how to dive deeper...
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Great Tip To Recover Shadow Detail In Photoshop
It doesn’t matter if you’re shooting outdoors or indoors, you can’t really escape certain limitations of your camera sensor. High contrast situations are an example of scenarios which aren’t the...
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Camera Raw is a Beast! But Did You Know It Could Do This to Jpegs?
There’s a manipulative beast living within your editing software and there’s a decent chance you’re not fully aware of what it can do. Now, I’ll come straight out and say that the majority of you are...
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A Simple Way to Draw Attention to Your Subject Using Radial Focus Blur
Being able to control where the viewer’s attention is focused is something that’s a great skill to have as a photographer. You can easily blur out distracting elements of your photograph by using...
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Post Processing: Adobe Lightroom Presets Or Photoshop Actions?
Post Processing using Lightroom Presets or Photoshop Actions? Like most photographers, I use both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to post process my photos, and I use presets and actions on almost every...
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Change Perspective With This Highly Underused & Easy Photoshop Tool
I have little use for a tilt-shift lens, and the likelihood that I’ll need to include one in my permanent stable of lenses is quite slim. That being said, I do tend to move around quite a lot, and the...
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Bachelorette Star Gets the Cold Shoulder…Or Actually, No Shoulder Thanks to...
If you’re a fan of ABC’s The Bachelor franchise, you’ll love this one. Well, even if you’re not a fan of the show, hopefully you’re a fan of Photoshop fails, because this one is good for a chuckle....
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Learn How To Change The Color Of Anything In Photoshop
Once you’ve begun to dabble in the Photoshop world, or learn how to incorporate its abilities into your work and workflow, a venerable cornucopia of options awaits. The changes can be major and appear...
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