Photoshop Tricks! :: Fix-It-Friday

 

 

One of my favorite phoTogs, American Mum, has a Fix-It-Friday thing every once in a while. She shows a photo, then shows how she fixed it with Photoshop. Simple as that! So I thought, ‘Hey…I’m always showing people in real life how I use my CS4, why not my internet friends?’ :) So here we go!

I’ll attempt to give you as much  info as I can, and where I got the actions I used.

The first thing I did was ‘burn’ the edges. MCP Actions {click Try Me}  has some really cool FREE ones…I used MCP Burnt Edges 1-High Res.

^Above, I used the Boutwell Magic Glasses action, also FREE, from Totally Rad Actions.

^Next up, Pioneer Woman. I know many of you drool over her already, and I’m sure you know about her FREE actions as well, right? If you don’t you can get Pioneer Woman Set 1 & Pioneer Woman Set 2. They work really well together…What I used in the photo up there is Slight Lighten from Set 1. I ran this action twice. It all depends on how much you need. Sometimes less is better if you’re going to Boost the color like I will below:

^ Also from Set 1 is my most used action of all, Boost. It just pumps your color and brightens all the details. This photo would be finished then, and I would say it as my ‘color’ copy.

^And the next best thing in PW’s actions set is Seventies. This action just makes cool look, well, cooler. :) It’s in Set 2.

 

^After I ran Seventies, I bumped up the contrast so the photo doesn’t look glazed over. I go to Layers>Brightness and Contrast…and the I adjust the contrast just a little. I moved the Brightness too.

      ^I LOVE black and whites. Sometimes too much! The action I ran on this no longer exists to the public, BUT you can use any B/W action {such as PW’s Black and White Beauty} and then here, I brought the Brightness down, and bumped contrast just a little. Here are the finished products!

   

More details about the photography contest coming next week!