So, on my new favorite blog, I heart faces, they have a Fix it Friday. They post a picture and hundreds of people ‘fix’ it. I love tinkering around in photoshop, so I think I’ll starting giving this a try. Seems like a fun way to make sure I blog on Fridays. Along with posting the before & after pictures, I will also share the steps I took to achieve the final look!
Enjoy!
Sarah
Before
After
Normally, I’d work on a picture the ‘long’ way… by hand and not by actions. I was in a hurry today, so I did each of these using actions alone. Now, that being said, I do not believe that photoshoppers should rely on actions. Once you learn how to
to properly work on images, actions can be a great tool for cutting down your work time. But before that, you really need to understand what you are doing and why you are doing it! 
Now, for the steps that I took to get this image:
1. Crop to 5×7, just because that’s what I prefer to work with
Used Child’s Play Actions for 1-4
1. Exposure fixer-upper
2. Brighten up buttercup x2
3. Warm me up x2
4. Glowly Color
4. Circled eyes using magnetic lasso and ran a USM set to 100, 3.0, 0
5. Brought down opacity just a bit – to around 86%
6. Ran eye pop action and adjusted to 86% opacity as well (I don’t like eyes to look freaky!)
7. Vignette by Child’s Play
8. Resized for web using Heidi’s resize action.
I timed it, I did this image is just over 4 minutes, and that was with a squirmy toddler in my lap!!
Variations on After
For each of these, I began with my ‘after’ image from above
Used Jess’ Warm Honey Action
Indie Actions Subtle Color & 1/2 kick
Purplish b&w from Child’s Play
13 Comments
wow, and all w/ a toddler on lap. very pretty, all of them, I like the last 2 the best!
All really nice – fave is the honey one
very pretty. i really like the honey one.
Well not knowing any of the steps to fix a pic in the first place I couldn’t have done any of what you did. So I think they all look great. My fave of the group??? I think that would have to be the last 2 with the Indie whatever you called it as the most fav.
You did an amazing job on the baby blues! Again, I love watching your work enhance more and more each day.
One question- what’s the eye pop action?
Man, that’s great…Thanks for providing such a good info………
Wonderfull…
Nice work! I’ll have to do a cross post on this one
Thanks a lot!! a very useful topic!!
Thanks for this. It really helped me out!
Very useful information
Very useful information. I think it is useful for many people. Thank you for your blogs.
This is absolutely perfect. Thanks a lot, I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time.