Johnna's Dreaming of Black and White Free Actions and Rita's Texture Tutorial!

Dreaming of Black and White Action Set by Johnna LaFaith

If you haven't visited Johnna's blog in a while, please head over there right now. I visit all of the time
to read her posts and check out her amazing photography. But she also has some beautiful free textures and actions! Here is a vintage action set you will want to check out. Her Dreaming of Black and White action set is simply perfect and you must go over there and download it right away. And please leave a comment thanking her if you have a chance!

Here is a boring before photo.  Why don't we play with this in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

Here is the same photo with Johnna's Vision of Sugarplums action run on it, with no adjustments of the layers.  Lovely!

Now I want to even go a step further and add a ShadowHouse Creation Texture.  I used the Aged 2 texture for this after seen below.  I know I mention this all of the time, but Jerry has the most amazing collection of absolutely free textures on his blog.  Please go check his blog out and if you can leave comments telling him how much you appreciate his hard work!  I think he is a Photoshop Angel.  :-)

So I ran the Vision of Sugarplum action and set the Gradient Map 1 adjustment layer to 66% opacity to bring back some of the original color.   I then added the Aged 2 texture on top and put it in Overlay blending mode (100%) and copied that layer and changed it to Linear Light (25% opacity).  I love this after!!!

This is a great way to demonstrate how you can combine actions and textures to get an amazing effect. I am constantly amazed by all of the free actions and textures out there. And a special thanks to Johnna and Jerry for these links and freebies and allowing me to write this little tutorial!!!

Happy Sunday everyone.

For complete info on installing actions, click here!