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Hey everyone getting back into the hobby, thanks to the daemonkin book, but had a painting question. When I took my break washes were big, but I never seen the glaze line. What are they used for and how are they used. Am I wrong in thinking it's a was that is used to brighten colors?

glazes can be used for a few things. you can use them to tint colours, or give metallics a coloured tint. you can also use them to tone down your colours, and applying them when using a layering/feathering highlighting technique will help make the transitions smoother and get rid of the 'witness marks' you can sometimes get .

I also use them to give different tones on stonework before drybrushing

A wash will settle into the creases adding shade to the model (hence the new name "shades"). A glaze will sit evenly over the entire model meaning stuff darker than the glaze will be brightened and stuff lighter will be darkened.

If you have over highlighted an area, they are a god send. I actually make on the fly glazes all the time using GWs medium paint.

Think of a glaze as nothing more than a highly transparent (acrylic) paint -- because it has more medium, and less pigment.

If you load up and brush and paint it excessively onto a model, it will work like an acrylic wash (because gravity will make more run into crevices). If you paint it thinly, it will "tint" the color below, which is just a fancy way of saying that your red glaze is transparent and would take a bazillion layers to reach opacity.

Also, be aware that though glazes dry thinner (they have less pigment, ergo, less body), even the medium has some body, and will add to the thickness of the paint, and eventually, will degrade the sharpness of the model's features.

Glazes are also very useful as an alternative to wet blending for creating smooth gradients. In some situations, glazes work better.