I don’t know about you, but there are times when I just want to try new things in Photoshop. For the past two weeks I have been playing around with CS5, downloading as many free actions (that I like) that I can, and trying my hand at post-processing.
Yesterday I spent most of the day working on some PSD templates with photos I took this week of my son and his friend having fun in the pool. I also took a wonderful image my friend David from the UK took in his backyard and added some punch to it. You can view that photo here. And this morning on the I Heart Faces blog, it’s Fix It Friday so I get to have a little more fun with my trial version of CS5.
Here is the original photograph:
My edited version:
I probably went through a dozen actions on this photo before deciding on the final three actions I applied. The first action was “Fade to Black and White” from Kevin Kubota. And then I applied his “Popsickle” action to make the details in this photo pop. And lastly I used an Action to create a classic Polaroid frame.
So what do you think of the Actions I applied to this photograph on loan from the I Heart Faces blog? Was this photograph better in color? Was the Polaroid frame too much? I would love to read your feedback. And then click on over the I Heart Faces blog and check out how the other photographers from the I Heart Faces community edited this photograph.