Tuesday, September 01, 2009

CoffeeShop Vintage Honey PS/PSE Action and Action UnWrapped!



This month I will be celebrating my birthday (it's one of those landmark ones), and I decided that this birthday would be celebrated from Sept. 1st to Sept. 30th. That means extra chocolate and coffee, going out to eat a few more times than normal, extra back rubs from my dear old husband, and a bit more slacking off than normal. So happy birthday to me!!!

Now I know all of you want to get me a gift, so I have made my short list: Canon EOS Rebel T1i 15.1 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3-Inch LCD (Body Only) . ;-) Actually, I am not a big fan of gifts (perhaps because I am not a great shopper myself), but I know my husband does read my blog (and thankfully sometimes points out interesting rules of grammer and spelling I seem to have created) and he knows I hate surprises (very true) and we don't have any extra money (also true) but perhaps a tiny part of his giant brain will retain this information and once my old trusty cracked Canon Rebel does completely bite the dust, a new camera might make its home with me. Then, happy birthday to me!!!

Now, on to my actual post. I was playing around trying to get a honeyed vintage effect and I hit upon one I really like. After running this action play around with the opacity of any of the layers for different effects. If you want to download the action click on the link at the bottom of this post. For those of you who want a step-by-step tutorial so you can do this on your own, please read the CoffeeShop Vintage Honey UnWrapped tutorial below.

CoffeeShop Vintage Honey UnWrapped!

1. Color Fade Layer: Add a gradient map adjustment layer, black to white. This turns your image B&W. Adjust the opacity to fade the color but not completely remove it. For the image above it was set to 40%.

2. Purple Color Fill Layer: Add a color fill adjustment layer and put #4d1c5d in the bottom space. Put this layer in Screen blending mode and adjust opacity to taste (I used 100%).

3. Yellow Color Fill Layer: Add a color fill adjustment layer and put #faec0a in the bottom space. Put this layer in Color blending mode and adjust opacity to taste (I used 15%).

4. Ivory Color Fill Layer: Add a color fill adjustment layer and put #fdfceb in the bottom space. Put this layer in Normal blending mode and adjust opacity to taste (I used 10%).

5. Bright Blue Color Fill Layer: Add a color fill adjustment layer and put #0f1977 in the bottom space. Put this layer in Exclusion blending mode and adjust opacity to taste (I used 25%).

Download CoffeeShop Vintage Honey PS/PSE Action HERE!

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36 comments:

  1. this looks beautiful, thank you!

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  2. Happy Birthday! Enjoy your month long celebration. My birthday is in September too so I may just join in the celebration!

    My birthday gift list is along the same lines....I want a Canon G11 as a second camera that I can take along more easily.

    Do birthday "wishes" really come true? We'll see........ =)

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  3. Happy Birthday to You! Woo Hoo....a month long celebration and with chocolate! I think I may help you celebrate this month. :)

    Beautiful action....thank you!

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  4. I have been wanting this look...but of course too lazy to figure it out myself! I love the softness and feeling it adds to the photo...thank you!!

    Best of luck with your birthday wish...I have a feeling hubby may come thru for you! If not, enjoy the backrubs:)

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  5. Happy Birthday! Thanks very much for the great action. Lovely effect!

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  6. Happy Birthday! Maybe you'll get the gift you want (fingers crossed for you!) I love the new action, beautiful! I can't wait to start playing with it!

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  7. Happy Birthday! Mine is in September, too. I like the idea of celebrating all month long :) Thanks, as always, for the wonderful free actions! You are so talented :)

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  8. Happy happy birthday!! Thanks so much for all your tutorials and free actions!!

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  9. OH! Fun!!! And Happy Birthday! I'm Sept. too.

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  10. I hope that you have a GREAT birthday!

    This action has been one that I have longed for and now I feel like it's my birthday!

    Thank you SO much!

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  11. I would like to wish you a scent-sational Birthday September.
    And if you do get the digital camera, I know you will love it. I sold two cameras in June to help me finance the purchase of mine. I have already taken thousands of photographs with it. Enjoy!

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  12. Happy Birthday Month! Thanks again for sharing your creativity.

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  13. I have only recently happened upon your INCREDIBLE BLOG...I'm so new to photography and photo editing but I am obsessed and you are amazing!! I love that you have this amazing talant and FREELY share it with everyone! I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate what you do oh and I am also a September baby therefore September is declared BIRTHDAY MONTH. If you would like to check out my use of your blog header (remember I'm still NEW at this) www.jandswalker.blogspot.com

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  14. absolutely love this action! and thank you Rita for all your work!!

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  15. oops, I was too excited to say Haaaaaaaaapy Birthday to you!!
    :)

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  16. Happy Birthday to you! Mine was last month. I like how you celebrate your birthday all month long. I will be sure to eat some chocolate in your honor.

    Thank you for everything you do to make our photographic lives easier and better.

    You have beautiful actions and talent. You look like you in your twenties, so don't admit to your age, whatever that young age may be.

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  17. Happy Bday! Mine is this month too and I told my hubby that we were celebrating from today to the 30th as well ;0)

    Yeah, we deserve it!

    Thanks for the action!

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  18. Happy birthday, hope the birthday fairy blesses you ;-)

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  19. Happy September Birthday! Enjoy your month long celebration :)

    THanks for the step by step tutorial along with the action. One day I am going to try and make some actions myself and your tutorial is a guide. I like to see how the actions are actually made.

    THanks again and sure hope the camera becomes a reality!

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  20. I love this action along with all your other ones. I have already tried it and the pictures turned out just lovely without having to change the settings at all.
    I so hope you get your birthday wish. You so deserve it :)

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  21. thank you very much! you are so creative and so generuous! i really enjoy the stuff you create and it is a pleasure to work with your actions! i am so excited to try out the new one! these tones are so nice!

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  22. This is FABULOUS Rita! My fav so far! Thank you so much for sharing the action and the steps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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  23. Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Hands Scrapbook Freebies Search List, under the Page 10 post on Sep. 02, 2009. Thanks again.

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  24. Thanks for the fab action and the tut and have a happy birthday month, hope you get the camera

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  25. Happy Birthday! And good choice on the camera. My other half bought me that camera for my own milestone birthday this summer, and I'm lovin' it. The 18-55 mm IS kit lens is fine, and the price is lower when bundled with the camera, so I went that route as it was my first D-SLR. I also invested in the 75-300 mm (not IS, unfortunately) Canon lens, and the nifty 50 (cheaper one). I love that f/1.8! I'm looking forward to adding to those as I can afford them. Thanks for your amazing freebies, and best wishes on a great birthday month! - A Canuck

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  26. Happy Birthday and Thank you! I've been looking at all the actions around for ages and not being able to figure them out for Elements was torture so to find you was wonderful - thank you so so much.

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  27. Love your site - many many thanks!!

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  28. thank you so much for sharing!

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  29. you're just amazing! thank you so much for sharing!

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  30. perfect! this is exactly what I've been looking for..thanks so much for sharing your actions

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  31. Thank you so much Rita. Tried this out and loved it. Seeing how you unwrap your actions is such a great learning tool.

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  32. I love your blog. I come here all the time for tutorials on some of your actions! I'm literally becoming amazing just reading them. If you ever get the chance to view my blog I would LOVE some feedback from sucha talented woman like yourself.

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  33. You are amazing!!!! - I LOVE YOUR WORK! Thank you so so so much for posting all of these!!! :)

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  34. Hi Rita, this is exactly the look I've been searching for except that I use Lightroom :( Any chance you have this as a preset for LR3 as well? Thanks! Mike

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