Sunday, April 13, 2014

CoffeeShop Enduring Love Photoshop/PSE Action!


Today I am posting my newest action, Enduring Love.  I love this action!  The gorgeous ( and perfect) image I used in this post is from Photography by Kelley.  The original SOOC image needed no editing, but I think Enduring Love really adds some nice light and color.

BTW, I have a B&W version of this action called Enduring Love Tinted B&W.


Here is the original SOOC image.


This is with Enduring Love (no adjustments made).


When I wrote this action I wanted to make it really fast and easy, but I also wanted it to be very customizable.  For a quick and easy edit, just adjust the opacity of the "Enduring Love" top layer to taste.  This top layer has every layer below merged into it.

If you want to customize the edit, then turn off the Enduring Love top layer and turn on all of the bottom layers.  Adjust the opacity of each layer to taste, and use the layer masks to remove or add each enhancement.


Here is another before and after on a beautiful image from Laura Sigley Photography.  I made no adjustments, just ran the action.  What I love about this action is it can be very subtle and it is completely customizable.  I do think this action works best on outdoor portraits with good lightning.

I hope you love this action and edit as much as I do.  Download the free CoffeeShop Enduring Love Photoshop/PSE action.

Do you want to download my favorite CoffeeShop PSE/Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets 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.

21 comments:

  1. Ooh! I think I'm going to love this one! Thank you!

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  2. This looks absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to try it out. Thank you so much for all the freebies.

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  3. Rosalind took the words right out of my mouth. Absolutely gorgeous. ♥

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  4. Very excited to give this one a go! Just had a magical shoot with a young couple at sunset, so plenty of images to try this on!

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  5. It says Error page not found when I try to download it :( I was so excited for it too!

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  6. Try downloading it again, I just checked and it worked flawlessly. :-)

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  7. A lot of the layers when the photo processes through the action, say that they are unavailable. Is there anyway I could fix this?

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  8. Michelle, which version of Photoshop are you using? And are you starting with an image that is flattened and says "Background"?

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  9. Rita, i have CS3, and yes they are flattened and are from the background layer.

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    1. Michelle, Reset your photoshop preferences. Something got changed/corrupted but that is an easy fix.

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  10. I have PSE 7 and am starting with a flattened image and am also having the same issue with many layers saying unavailable.... any suggestions?

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  11. I am also using CS3 and having the same problems as Michelle. Same with the Enduring Love B&W action, too. Would love to figure out what the problem is, as I feel they will become my favorite actions to use. As of now, the "finished" product looks pretty bad and takes tons of tweaking to be usable. Appreciate all you do and hope to see a fix on this one soon.

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  12. Reset your photoshop preferences. Something got changed/corrupted but that is an easy fix. 😊. Rita

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    1. I have reset prefs, updated to 2021 and tried it there, returned to 2020 which is more stable, downloaded Enduring Love separately and installed that and same problem. I purchased the $45 mega pack which inc all the freebies like Enduring Love. All layers are turned on but you can't see them or their effects at all. Tried changing blend modes and then noticed when I selected 'merge visible'. the adjustment layers still remained. THey are not visible and the resetting of prefs didn't work.

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    2. Hi Viki! I just tested the one in my pack and it works! So the way this action is set up is a little confusing. I made all the layers, then merged all of the effects on the top layer with a layer mask and turned off everything below. If you like the effect and don't need to make any changes, then you simply flatten. If you want to adjust the layers, turn off the top layer (you have to do this since it is covering up everything else!) and turn on all of the bottom layers and adjust to taste and then save. I usually love this action without any adjustments, thus the top layer. But I also wanted to let people have the ability to tweak it for each photo. Hope this makes sense!

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  13. Can I just say that you are amazing to offer so many treats to us. I have been following you for a long time and will follow you for many years to come. Thanks again!

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    1. Monica, you are so sweet! Thank you so much for your kind comments, you made my day.

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    2. Agree. Wonderful help Rita ty ty💞💞

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  14. Both download links no longer work, jsyk.

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    1. Thank you for letting me know! I just fixed the link. :-)

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