I’ve decided that I needed to learn Photoshop. As much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE Aperture 3 and I still plan on using it, almost all professional photographers use Photoshop. So, I opened up my Photoshop Elements and googled some how to’s and started experimentin’.
Now, if you looked at my favorite blog list, one of the blogs I listed is CoffeeShop Photography. Rita, who writes the blog, proved a ton of free actions for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. I’ve started downloading her stuff and watching/reading her tutorials. If you use PSE or PS, you really should go to her site and download some beautiful actions.
One of the first things I downloaded was her action for creating a vignette using a Burn action. I thought I would try it out.
Here is a photo I took of my cousin Amber at her wedding. (By the way, this was taken like 4 years ago.)
Then I applied the first vignette layer.
I didn’t think it was enough. But in Aperture, you just strengthen the vignette. I couldn’t figure out how to do that in PSE. So, I just added the action again and it created a new layer. Once, I actually looked it up, you don’t normally do it this way, but it worked. Go to Rita’s tutorial to see how you are supposed to do it.
Ooooh! It worked! I did a third layer.
Then a fourth!
I got a little carried away with the fourth layer. So I chose to go with the third layer of vignette.
Here is the final version.
I was so happy with how easy it really was. So I downloaded some more actions. I’ll show you the results tomorrow!
