New Actions

Tonight while Daphne has been napping I’ve been playing around with some Photoshop Actions by Totally Rad! & Nichole Van. Fun, fun, fun.

This first photo is of a local B’ham sign, which has since been removed. The first image is SOOC (straight out of camera, from 2003 with our crappy P&S) and the second has been processed with Nichole Van’s toy camera action/overlay. Neat effect:

Next is one of Chris’ photos that was published in Birmingham Magazine. I just tweaked the photo a bit and added some texture with Totally Rad!’s Dirty and Used Up:

I realize I need to up my Photoshop/Lightroom skills before this can happen, but I totally need a job post-processing photos. It’s so much fun. I’d love to do it everyday. And now that Chris won’t be doing as much event photography work, and I can spend more time on each photo, I’ve been delving into Photoshop more. I really enjoyed Chris Orwig’s portrait retouching series. One of the last videos I watched showed how to do a “tummy tuck” in Photoshop. Let me just speak for women all over the world and say that alone is totally worth the $650 price tag for the software.

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