Every Friday, I will be bringing you something for FREE and today is one of my favorites to date. Smashing Magazine is an amazing online magazine that is a fountain of fabulous information for photographers and web designers. This article is particular has lots of of great information!
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This is Auntie Spiffy. Or at least that’s what kids have always always called her. She’s my hubby’s baby sister. Isn’t she beautiful? She is single and well qualified applicants may inquire. Today I’ve got a lovely little freebie, it’s a nice soft focus action with a layer that allows you to erase through to keep your eyes sharp. So in the shot above, I ran it just once to soften the skin and hair. You can run the action again to get a more ethereal feel (remember to flatten your image before running tha action again). I do only leave my freebies up for a limited time so grab it while you can!
Congratulations to Dana Ohlsen for winning our Hot Shot Challenge. The theme was gratitude and she did alovely job conveying that concept. A nice action pack for you chicka! And it’s because of Dana (ALL RESPONSIBILITY ON HER) that I’m going to be doing a Shot Out Boot Camp December 28 in Salt Lake City. One full day of in class instruction and hands opportunities to develop your skills, shooting and editing. Models will be provided with a catered lunch. It will be fast paced, no hand holding, push yourself till you drop, and the chance for you to take your photography to a new level. It will be everything I wish I had known when I was starting off. Participants will need to be know how to work their camera in manual and bring a laptop with CS3 or CS4 (free trial download available). Class size will be limited! More information soon!
This is the finished product with this texture added. From Monday and Wednesday posts you can see how a picture evolves and develops.
OK, so I was really feeling crapola yesterday (I’m so glad my mom never reads my blog, she would HATE to hear me say that) and I felt my post was pretty crapola as well so I wanted to make it up to you. Have you ever thought, “Wow, I wish I was in Hawaii today”? I think that pretty much everyday from December 31 to March 31, sometimes even 10-12 times a day. Well, now you can be in Hawaii with just one click. Introducing my Hawaiian Vintage Postcard action. The shot below is what it looked like before.
So if you want to make it on your own, follow along with me. Two things to remember actions don’t generally work well on images shot with flash and this action does have a texture as well so you will want to run this on a larger image if possible or use the opacity to bring down the texture if desired. 1. Layer>Duplicate Layer Here’s the link for the FREE action here. It’s also the link to my store, so if you like your action, you know where to get more. If you’ve never used actions but would like to, I have directions on how to install them. Actions are 1 step recipes that transform your photos that you can download to use in Adobe Elements or Photoshop. Let me warn you, it’s somewhat of a pain in the wazoo to install them the first time if you have Elements. On behalf of Adobe, I would like to apologize. Actually, I believe Adobe doesn’t even really care. They are perfectly content to think that if you want to use actions, you have to have the full CS program. That is not true. If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about just know this ACTION=EASY (YOU CAN DO ACTIONS IN ELEMENTS TOO). If you don’t know what version of Photoshop you have, I’m gonna bet 10 to 1 you have Elements, which is all you need here. Good luck! I’m generally here Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
My SEO GAL is hosting a fabulous Blog Hop and you get to come along! It’s one week of fabulous fun! Visit the blogs off to the right hand side for your chance to see lots of great blogs and enter some fabulous giveaways. I’m adding to the war chest of prizes by adding a customBloggaMama Pack, retail value of $40. It’s all the actions you would want to have your pictures look the very best for your blog. What’s an action? A one-click command you can use in Photoshop to instantly transform your photos. I’m taking my favorite actions from each pack as well as adding some customized ones and combing them into one pack. I will be offering this only on very limited occasions, so here’s you chance to have one click instantly beautify your image for you blog. One click solutions with brillant results. Amazing, but true.
You can see more examples of my actions below and in the store. You will need Photoshop Elements 6.0 or above to enjoy them (or you could always buy Elements 8, which is due out any day!). There are 49 blogs entered for the blog hop. Click to the right to see them. Anyone can join in! Here are the rules: All you have to do enter is to leave a comment. Make sure and visit the other blogs! They have some fabulous prizes!
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