CoffeeShop “Dark & Dramatic Color” Fine Art Photoshop/PSE Action!

Wow, I just realized I haven’t posted anything in almost a month.  The last months have been a little overwhelming for me here in the CoffeeShop house. We are used to getting out and doing things like taking little flying trips, going to festivals, and visiting with out-of-town family so these last months with the virus situation has really changed our lives. Like everyone else of course. 

I never realized how important it was for me to get out and about with people, especially since I homeschool and work-at-home.  I MISS PEOPLE SO MUCH!!! So I have been a little anxious/down the last months with all the changes to our normal life and my creativity just disappeared. I would sit at my computer and wouldn’t be able think of anything to design…

I saw my sister Heather and her kids also for the first time in months and it was so nice! It looks like she might be moving here from Dallas by the end of summer if things work out and I can’t tell you how excited we are about this!!! My kids will actually have cousins in town and I can hang out with my sister. 

And finally, I am getting back on my computer to blog/design which is going to really help too. So things are looking up.

I hope you and your family/friends/loved ones are doing ok during these crazy times. I just keep on reminding myself that this isn’t forever. We watched “Back to the Future” with the boys and we all decided that if we ever go visit the past we will skip right over the first 6 months of 2020. 😉 

Yesterday I had some really great actions ideas and wrote two new ones. Today’s is a gorgeous dark and dramatic color boost. I love using this one on florals, but you can use it anyway you like. It really adds so much drama to your color images. You can download it toward the bottom of this post.

CoffeeShop “Dark and Dramatic Color” Action Tutorial: 

Open image. You can see the original image I used in this post here.

Run “Dark & Dramatic Color” and adjust layers to taste.

I like to remove some of the “Add Contrast” layer from the flowers, so I click its layer mask and use a soft black brush directly on the flowers.

I also sometimes need to turn on the “Reduce Reds” layer and adjust the opacity to remove some of the red. In this case I turned it on and dialed it down to 30% opacity. 

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