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Curves | How To Get The Most From The Adjustment Tool You ‘Think’ You Know
When I’m editing a photo, I can say beyond a doubt that ‘Curves’ adjustments are my most used. For adjusting overall tonality and color in an image, it’s a great tool for large and fine adjustments....
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A Quick and Simple Technique For Removing Acne in Photoshop
For me, picture day was always a dreaded event in high school because of my face. I had acne so severe that little kids would frequently ask me why I had so many red freckles. If you were one of the...
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Photoshop For Travel Photos (& More) | Easily Resolve Camera Shake &...
To do mass processing of images ranging from simple white balancing with an eye dropper, or adding presets across a series of images for set continuity, Lightroom has been the program of choice....
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How To Create A Professional Magazine Cover In Photoshop
If you are first and foremost a photographer and less a designer, maybe you’re used to Photoshop as it pertains to retouching in whatever genre you tend to shoot. Portrait and people shooters will...
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The 6 Minute ‘Dirty Edit Challenge’ by Jeff Rojas
In the fashion, beauty, commercial photography world, spending 8 hours editing one single image is commonplace. I’ve heard some take upwards of 12-30 hours an image. For a wedding photographer who...
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How To Take A Single Portrait & Create Numerous Looks Using Photoshop...
One of the wonderful things about Photoshop isn’t necessarily its ability to fix ‘flaws’ or to add/remove things from inside of a photo, but rather the ability it lends to produce numerous styles from...
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A Few Simple Ways to Effectively Reduce Noise Using Photoshop
There are many ways to reduce noise in post when you’ve perhaps shot an image with too high of an ISO in a low light situation. With cameras going up to the hundred thousand ISOs these days, grainy...
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Phlearn Pro Perfect Beverage Lighting and Retouching Review
Reviewing Phlearn Tutorials is always a pleasure for me. My Photoshop skill level is pretty high, so I’m always surprised when I manage to learn a lot from Aaron. Phlearn Pro Perfect Beverage Lighting...
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How To Use The Liquify Tool In Photoshop
For all Photoshop’s abilities, I think it’s fair to say it’s what the liquify tool does that ends up getting most of the press. Want a smaller nose? The liquify tool is there. How about fuller lips?...
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How To Take A HIgh Quality Still Image From Video With Ease, In Photoshop
One of the great changes I’ve seen in recent times with photography related companies, has been a renewed sense of effort that goes into actually listening to what we the customers are saying. Now,...
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How To Match Skin Tones In Photoshop
If you photograph people often, be it in a studio or not, you’ll be no stranger to the plight of balancing skin tones and colors. From how make-up is applied, to differing levels of tan, to how light...
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Temperature Throw | Advanced White Balance Free Ebook Tutorial
A “temperature throw” is a term that Post Production Pye started using in our studio. It refers to the technique of 1) taking one RAW image, 2) creating a virtual copy in Adobe Lightroom, 3) varying...
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How To Clean Backgrounds In Photoshop
If you’ve been around photography long enough, chances are you’ve used a seamless white paper background for some of your images. Even if you haven’t, if you follow any current fashion photographers...
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Should I Save My File As a JPEG or PNG? How to Maximize Image Quality Online
Recently, I was planning to post a photo online and I wanted it to look its very best. The JPEG file format uses a lossy compression algorithm which means that some image quality degradation typically...
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How To Add Text To Anything In Photoshop
It would seem that in the never-ending quest for total retouching mastery, which means discovering new ways to unlock the Rubik’s Cube that is Photoshop, photographers can get extremely tunnel...
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Adobe Bridge: The Media Manager For Visual People You Shouldn’t Miss Out On
Adobe Bridge, at its core, is a complex and powerful media manager for visual people. Like a focus ring, it allows you to defocus what’s not wanted, and see clearly all your media assets on your hard...
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Creative Compositing with Photoshop’s Layer Blending Modes
Photoshop’s layer blending modes can be perfect for creative compositing. Many interesting effects can be realized when blending two or more photos in this way. In the video below, Mark S. Johnson...
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Photoshop Playbook: Image File Formats Explained: When To Save As What
Photoshop’s Principal Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, regularly brings how-to videos and breakdowns to the software we love all so much. Perhaps, however, it’s how Bryan is situated in the...
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Cheetyr | The Searchable Shortcut Cheat Sheet For Photoshop
We offer a rather wide breadth of Photoshop coverage on SLRL, because Photoshop is a photo resource like no other, and is so capable and complex that even the more experienced Photoshop users can do...
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How To Make Colors Pop In Photoshop
Almost universally, it’s agreed that one major mistake many a photographer makes in post processing is over-saturation. From skies to eyes, to everything in between, boosting saturation to far beyond...
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