Free Photoshop Action
December 8th, 2009
I am giving away a new Free Photoshop Action, which has been appropriately named Delicious B&W!
This is a Black & White photoshop action to fall in love with, if I do say so myself.
> Download free Photoshop action <
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A word on actions for Photoshop:
Photoshop actions are not meant to be one size fits all, meaning that sometimes you need to play around with the PS action a bit until you get the desired look you’re going for. Just in case you’re unfamiliar with photoshop actions, I’ve written a couple quick tips on how to modify and tweak your photo to make it your own below:
• Before you run the action make sure you start out with a well exposed image. If you need to, adjust the lighting of the image in photoshop. (I prefer curves.)
• After you run the action you’ll notice an arrow next to the Delicious B&W folder in the layers palette.
• Click on the arrow and it’ll show a drop down of all the layers that were used in the action.
• Now select any one of the photo shop layers from the dropdown and you will be able to adjust each of them individually.
1- Adjust the opacity in one or more layers (opacity refers to the amount of transparency a layer has). You can click on each individual layer in the dropdown to adjust the opacity to your taste and liking.
*Example: For the first three images, the opacity of the Highlight layer was set at 100%.
In the picture of Macie (the one with the little diva kissy face) I turned the Highlight layer down to 70% to soften the effect of that layer just a bit.
2. You can hide or show a layer by clicking on the eye.
(And if you keep clicking on it really fast it looks like it’s winking at you.)
(OK… not really. But that would have been cool.)
I encourage you to play around with this photoshop action and tweak it to match your style. There is no right or wrong way.
(Just like when you eat a Reeces!)
Ginnie
P.S. I’d love to see what you can do with this PS action, and if you’d like, email an image that you used the this black and white action on to ginniejphotography[a]gmail.com. If I have your permission, I’ll do a post showing my favorites from the ones that I receive (if you don’t want me to show it, be sure to tell me this in the email). Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Love it!! Can’t wait to play more with it.
Thanks, now, if only the photographer came with the action
Miss you guys!!
Thanks Ginnie. I am excited to play with it!
Oooh, I am excited to try it out! Thanks, this is so generous of you. I downloaded a previous set of your actions and use them all the time!
Wow, Gin! I haven’t visited in a while (handslap) so this is a wonderful surprise! I miss you! Thank you so much for the share, you are always so generous and amazing! xoxo
I can’t wait to play. Thank you so much for sharing! I love your soft gold action and know I’ll love this one just as much! Thank you Ginnie! And I LOVE the sample photos…stunning as always! :O)
Gorgeous–thank you so much!
This is a beautiful action.. thankyou for sharing.
I love the new Facebook login you added… Oh, and the action is cool too!
UMMM! This is delish! Beautiful work!
wonderful, can’t wait to play
Thank you!
Ginnie, I absolutely love your actions, and I use them all the time. I especially LOVE Feeling Blue. I can tell I’m going to love this one as well! Thank you for being so generous, and so talented! Happy Holidays!
I LOVE this b/w action. Thanks for being so generous and sharing it!
I LOVE your actions!! Thank you so much for sharing them. And including free ones? Shucks little lady, you are fabulous!