Great photo effects to quickly and easily give your photos a professional look. Great for heritage layouts!
These actions are a must have item to make your photos look like the work of a professional. Create Urban Grunge, Dreamy Photo or Faux Lomo at the click of a button in Photoshop CS-CS4 or Photoshop Elements 7. The action pack includes instructions on how to load and run the action. Check the pack out in the DSP store to see further samples of just what you can do with these fabulous actions!
Have you always wanted to give your photos that dreamy look, a soft dewy glow, blemishes all but non-existant. Check out this new action now available in the shoppe.
Dreamy Photo Photoshop Action – This action is one of the most versatile effects you can have for your photos. It gives a nice ethereal glow to your photos, as well as softens blemishes, warms the tone and brightens harsh shadows. It is perfect for dreamy fairy photos, or jazzing up flash photo snaps. Use it in conjunction with the Faux Lomo action for a stunning vintage ethereal feel.
What on earth is Lomography you ask? Lomography is a form of photography using a Vintage camera called the Lomo or another similar style ‘toy’ camera.
The Lomo camera has developed a following and resurgence of popularity. The Lomo along with other ‘toy’ camera’s have a characteristic vignette altered colour tones and some lens distortion. Using the camera and other ‘toy’ camera’s such the Diana camera creates a unique and quite arty looking effect on your photos.
Now rather than buying one of these ‘toy’ cameras and processing the images the old fashioned way, you can do it digitally to any photo in photoshop with the click of a button using my new action.
One of the great advantages of digital scrapbooking is being able to edit your photos.
If you have ever had trouble matching your photos to your layout, kit or if something just doesn’t look quite right, tinting your photo might be just what you need to do to make your layout pop.
When opening an image, always use SAVE AS to save a to a new image file name so that you are not working on your original.
In this tutorial we will start with this original photo.
Firstly to tint an image it must first be made black and white. The way I find the easiest is to desaturate the image. To do so select Image> Adjustments > Desaturate.
Usually when desaturating an image it is necessary to boost the contrast a little. An easy way to do this can be to use the Auto Contrast tool in Image> Adjustments > and then select Auto Contrast. (also shown in menu above)
If you wish to have a bit more control over the contrast it is sometimes more effective to use the brightness/contrast.
Sepia toning is an age old photography technique. Photographers who did sepia toning would all have their own techniques and preferences in regard to the color of their sepia work. The digital age makes it much easier for us to experiment with sepia tones along with a myriad of other monochrome color effects.
Probably the easiest method is to use variations. Image> Adjustments> Variations
You can choose the extent of color variation by adjusting the Fine – Course slider. Simply adjust the image by selecting the appropriate thumbnail and clicking until you have achieved the desired colour tone and then click on Ok.
For sepia toning you are mainly working with the red tones. I like to adjust the slider to the fine level as it gives you more control and you can make the changes more gradually. Each click of a thumbnail adjusts the tonal change further.
To achieve a sepia look, you would mostly use the ‘More Red’ thumbnail to achieve the desired look. You may also like to add some yellow to make it a more yellow sepia, or more magenta to make it a bit more pink. On the sample above the tonal changes are quite dramatic as the slider is set at halfway. The changes will be a lot more gradual when set at the fine end of the slider. On the example below, I set the slider to fine, and clicked on ‘More Red’ several times to get the desired effect.
The saturation allows you to adjust how much of that color is added to the image. The lightness slider allows you to adjust the brightness of the image overall. It is good to experiment with the effects of Hue and Saturation to see what you can do. It is a very versatile tool, not only for your photos, but your layouts, backgrounds and elements as well.
Once you have achieved your desired result, simply click on ok and save your image.
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