Sunday, April 21, 2013

CoffeeShop Dandelion Wine PSE/Photoshop Action!



Today I wanted to post the CoffeeShop Dandelion Wine action.  This is a fun, bright action and you will find step-by-step instructions on doing the edit in this tutorial.  You have to be comfortable with painting on layer masks if you want to use this action on portraits.  If you are running this action on an image that does not include people you might be able to use it "as is" with no further adjustments.



As the action runs it will prompt you to Gaussian blur the image.  Keep this number low where your portrait is just slightly out-of-focus.  Once this action runs you will have six layers above the background.  Please read this post for complete instructions on editing these layers.

Basically, mask out the eyes with a soft low opacity black brush on the Color Bright and Contrast Pop layers to keep them from getting too soft. Use a soft low opacity black brush on the Color Pop and Color Tint layers to remove extra color from the skin.  Remove all of the Color Tint layer off the eyes.  Adjust all of the layer opacities to taste.

Use a soft low opacity white and black brush on the Light/Dark layer to add/remove light on your image (white adds light, black removes it).  Finally, turn on the optional Matte layer and adjust to taste.

Download the CoffeeShop Dandelion Wine PSE/Photoshop action.  You can also download it here.

Do you want to download my favorite CoffeeShop Actions or Design Elements in one convenient zipped file AND help support this blog? Just click here for my action pack or here for a download of some of my most popular design elements, storyboards, and textures.

For complete info on installing all of my actions, click here.

6 comments:

  1. thank you so much, your actions are really beautiful!

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  2. Thank you, I love your actions!!

    XXXJenneke

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  3. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with all of us! Your generosity is much appreciated!

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  4. I downloaded a couple of your actions to play around...I absolutely love this one for a portrait...I appreciate that you added the layer masks to all of the layers for easy adjustments. I can't wait for a photo shoot to try this out. THANK YOU!

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