Photoshop:: Before & After
May 5th, 2010I’m thinking today is feeling like a photoshop before & after kind of day, don’t you think?
I’ve always loved seeing other photographers before’s & after’s. I love looking at where the creative process in photoshop takes them and seeing the end result. Hopefully, you enjoy it as much as I do 
The one on the left is straight out of the camera or SOOC and the right is the edited image.
Whenever I edit a picture I usually start with the same basic actions from my set of actions:
- Lighten
- Color Boost
- Make it Pop (and adjust the opacity to my liking)
Depending on the picture I will make a few adjustments to the color and contrast using curves.
I also like to use portaiture on some of my images.
FYI-curves is my most used tool in photoshop.
Some of my other favorite actions to use are:
- My Feeling Blue
- Totally Rad’s Pool Party
- Pioneer Woman’s Seventies (I used this on the first image with the opacity turned down to about 30%)
- My Vintage Gold
- Totally Rad’s Yin/Yang (love this one)
- Totally Rad’s Claire-ify
For black & whites:
- Totally Rad’s BAMF 16-bit
- My Delicious B&W
Sometimes I like to make a duplicate copy of one image. I will run the BAMF 16-bit action on one and my delicious B&W on the other. Then I will merge the two images and adjust the opacity of the layers until I get the desire B&W look I’m going for. Did that make any sense? Clear as mud, right?
Until next time……
I love the new actions I just bought from you. Great pictures.
So cool! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Thank you for sharing a little bit of your process. Your images are always beautiful…
Thanks for showing the before/after shots. I love seeing how photographers arrive at their final image. I love your blue action and use it on so many of my photos. I’m a little lost with the others as I feel I should be experimenting a little more. Would love to see more before/after shots.
Thanks again.
Love these! It’s so fun to see what other photogs do with their images.
Thanks for sharing your process! Love your before and afters! I have a question and I hope you can answer it for me. When I have tried yin/yang there is not a difference at all. I watch it go through all 6 or 7 steps but the photo doesn’t change. I am doing something wrong? or NOT doing something I need to?
I think it was several years ago that I bought your set of actions that I found out about through 2 peas photography. Just want you to know I use that set more then most of all my actions. Thanks for making my processing easier!!