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In this brilliant tutorial from Phlearn, Aaron Nace shows you how to create an artistic, composite image to replicate the double exposure effect. Despite being a little complex, the instruction is easy to follow. 
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Now, as a photographer, I deal with acne with most of my senior sessions. Of course, there are one or two students that have escaped the puberty beast and makes my post processioning a lot easier, but for the majority, there is always some retouch that is required.
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Acne happens when anyone starts going through puberty, but once you're a photographer and say photographing a few kids for a team or even a prom photo. Everyone wants to look their best, so this little tutorial will help you to get rid of the redness and make your skin glow.
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Today is another sad day, because Apple announced that it will no longer continue development of its Aperture software, which many photographers still rely on for their day to day photo management and editing.
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A sad day for Apple's Aperture program. With the announcement that any further development towards the editing program would come to an indefinite halt meaning this is the end for anyone that uses this program should switch to another.
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Once InsaApple wants to usurp Facebook's Instagram-built photo sharing dominance with its new program, PhotoKit.
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Once Instagram came up with the controls the now adjustable filters from heavy to soft. Apple will introduce PhotoKit, a suite that will come with the IOS8. Taking their editing levels to the next step, as well as giving Instagram a run for the top.
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Are your photos of flowers not turning out how you’d like? Get five tips for capturing flowers like never before! Then, see here for a chance to take the online Craftsy class Photographing Flowers with macro-photography expert Harold Davis, and learn even more essential exposure, focus, and macro techniques for shooting captivating floral photography.
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Getting organized, stacking your filters in the order that they should be in. In your point of view, maintaining balance. Never forget to pick the right ISO and that means printing, and printing an enlarged replica of the image.
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Tilt-shift images can be made one of two ways: one is to capture them in-camera using a tilt-shift lens, and the other is to create the effect in post-production by using a clever blurring technique.
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Tilt-shift can save that one image that may need to be blurred in one area, to make another section stand out. A quick tutorial to show you the effect and how to transform your image into something outstanding.
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Learn Photo Editing http://bit.ly/1g45yVp HOW TO CREATE A CARTOON CHARACTER WITH PHOTOMANIPULATION.
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Tying in photomanipulation with a source of photo editing whether it's for a magazine or wedding...this Youtube video has the information available to you.
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This video tutorial will show you how this seemingly difficult task is surprisingly easy with PicsArt, breaking down the process step by step.
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PicsArt has some of the best editing effects from distortion to adding scores of lights to your images, even throwing in some popart ideas around to show off your skills. But now they've added a way to combine in a hybrid combination of two animals. What will they think of next?
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Image editing is a process which is required to make beautiful images. One image editing process which I personally find really handy is curve editing.
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Curve editing is a tool that some individuals swear by. With an easy to use alignment, you can focus in on the main RGB factors if you want or just leave it as is. Basically it's enhancement process.
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We are editing our crumbuns off: experimenting, playing, and punching out some hecka beautiful images. Here’s the skinny on how to dive into PicMonkey while holding your drink level and looking kewl.
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PicMonkey has a reputation to uphold. And it has been done by this tutorial (that is if you are new to the editing software) to show off how fun and precise the editing tool can be.
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Aviary, a developer-centric startup that powers the photo editing features in more than 7,000 apps, just relaunched its iOS SDK (software development kit). This move comes as the company passes the 10th billion mark for photos edited over the last 12 months.
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Aviary user or not, the tools have been given the ultimate upgrade wit the new SDK feature. After the serge of 10 billion photos edited this is a great way to celebrate.
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Flickr is a great tool to organize your photos and share them with the world. Plus, ever since Flickr got an overhaul and tons of free space, it's a great place to back up your photos too. Still, it can be even better with a few useful tools from the user community. Here are some of the best.
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Flickr has some great tools with a crazy amount of free space. The platform of juploadr or the advantage of Flickr Mobile. Which is perfect for on the go. Also Preloadr is another image editing process.
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As some of you may know, HDR photography is a big part of what I do. I’ve spent countless hours learning, practicing and honing my processing techniques and I’d like to think that by now I have an eye for a good HDR image.
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Here are some perfect examples of what an HDR image should look like. Without being overly saturated and generally you can always tell when it just doesn't hit that perfect HDR mark.
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Inspiration spurs creativity and it is often you find a photograph or artist that influences your practice.
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Ben Secret gives us a tutorial to recreate allowing the viewer to finally get an idea when it comes to tone and color through imitation.
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Be established by Patrick, an expert graphic artist, picture colorist, photographer and editor, this Learn Photo Editing software application intends to teach you how to develop better photos by investing as little cash as possible by using image editing.
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Learning how to photo edit is a big promise and deal being a photographer. Patrick will offer his help to show what exactly the beginners need to know to start off on their new venture.
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This week we look at how to create a Preset in PortraitPro. It’s a great, photo editing timesaver.
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Having a preset with a certain style that you use is time-saving. Unlike going through each time adjusting every inch and pixel, PortraitPro will save the sort of settings that you use to accomplish a fast editing time.
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Many photographers make fun of people taking photos and videos with their iPads for good reason. iPads don’t have very good lenses, you can’t attach them to a tripod and the sound just isn’t that good when recording video. The Padcaster is a gadget that was built to overcome all those issues.
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iPads have bad lenses...well they are not exactly the best. Unless you watch this video and find the tools to turn your iPad into a camera incredible enough to turn heads.
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Using Blurring, Sharpening, Dodging, Burning and Sponging in Pixelmator - Tuts+ Photography Tutorial
Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can make an image stand out more by using, blurring, sharpening, burning, dodging and sponging. Let's get started! | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Quick; Tags: Tools & Tips, Pixelmator
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Five essential tools are covered in this tutorial. From start to finish all the while having your image as 100% zoom gives you full coverage so the image won't be missing any spots or having too much of one thing and not the other.
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The Pixelmator team is relentless, releasing significant updates to the application every few months. Version 3.2 (codenamed 'Sandstone') is no exception and can be downloaded from the Mac App Store now.
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The team for Pixelmator has repaired, improved and with great pride given more life to the editing tool than ever before. Go download the newest version of this software and behold the color-correction technology that seems effortless. Giving any area within your photo that needs to be repaired a more natural edge.
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One of the basic Photoshop skills that many beginners want to learn early on is how to change something's color in one of their images (be that an object or someone's eye color).
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Opportunity knocks when you can change the color on virtually anything. Phlearn teaches us how to with this simple tutorial based on the basic structural nature of changing one color to another.
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In this tutorial take a look at nine of the biggest photo editing cliches and what photographers can do to avoid them.
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Being caught in a cliche is the last thing anyone wants. Add in some photo editing and you may be in this list of the 9 cliches to avoid. So go through this list just to make sure you are not falling into the pool that could lead to this.
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"The best photos don't look edited; it's all about the story and the moment," photographer Cole Rise quips while walking me through his new mobile image editor.
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Cole Rise who created the filters Hudson, Rise, Sutro and Sierra for Instagram has come up with the idea to make the filters even simpler. With Instagram having a heavy hand when we want to overlay a filter over our image it can cause a good image to turn into a overly saturated, not easy to look a portrait.
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Photoshop allows designers and photographers to enhance the look of photos in more ways than one. Some photos are edited in a very subtle way that the viewer would not even know that it’s edited, unless and until it is kept side by side with the original photo.
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Why is photo editing important? What can you get out of it? What can you do to improve the contrast, saturation or even a certain filter? A guide to why photo editing using Photoshop can help with everything.
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traitIn this era of digital cameras with the ability to instantly view images, we've lost that feeling of suspense that came with waiting for a roll of film to develop at the lab and wondering if you...
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Red eye can ruin a perfect portrait, and trying to remove it can leave an unwanted grey area. However, this little bit of information may fix that problem once and for all.
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Google Slides and Drawings make it easy for you to tell a story and share your ideas. And a big part of storytelling is the images you use to bring a concept to life.
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Utilizing Google Slides and Drawings can help you tell your story. Whether you've finished a photo essay or want to put together a series of images to reflect back on that vacation getaway. This tutorial for Google Slides will get you towards your goal.
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Double exposure use to mean seeing that image on film. With Phlearn they show you how to find a way that brings beauty and artistic ability to a very cool effect.