Photo Editing: Saturation & Rich Colors

[Akissavi]

Post processing help please!

Please view the Before & After pictures. How can I duplicate these effects - the skintones, the borders, the contrast, the softer feel of the entire frame? Which filters are being used? Layers?

I use Photoshop (hopefully CS3 soon). Any help would be very much appreciated :)

These aren't my photos, but rather inspiration.

[Killeenguy]

did you take these?

[AndrewCCM]

https://www.dqstudios.com/dqquikeys/site.html

The DQ Overlay Action does something very similar. There are many other Photoshop Actions out there that will do the same/similar effect.

[Akissavi]

Thank you for your help!

[luis_relampago]

That look is easy to recreate, just duplicate the layer, give it a warmer color cast either with a hue adjustment layer or color balance adjustment layer, after hold shift-ctrl-alt and the letter E to create a flatten image with the changes it will create a separated layer, select that new layer and give it a large Gaussian blur then lower the opacity to about 50% or less and you will have something very similar.

[kb5kjn]

Quick way,
warm the photo up
Dup Layer
High Pass Filter (8mp 20, 10mp 27)
Invert
Blend Overlay

[fivegrand]

looks like a bunch of diffuse glow too

[HeatherLou]

I think it looks very much like the action Midnight Sepia.

[lscottpht]

Originally Posted by Heatherlou

I think it looks very much like the action Midnight Sepia.

My thoughts exactly, and it's a free action.

[roshani]

Originally Posted by lscottpht

My thoughts exactly, and it's a free action.

it never occurred to me there might be actions on the net that were free! I just searched for this one and found sites with bunches of actions. isn't the net incredible!

thx!

*sigh* just more to add to my learning list of things to go and try.

[Roadrnr]

Originally Posted by kb5kjn

Quick way,
warm the photo up
Dup Layer
High Pass Filter (8mp 20, 10mp 27)
Invert
Blend Overlay

Wow! I liked the results from that. It's like the look for some photos I've been searching for all this time!

[Disney Chick]

Where can I get the Midnight Sepia action?

[roshani]

rachel

i googled it and found this site.
http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
search on that page for midnight sepia

[Disney Chick]

Thanks! Now I'm a complete dork and don't know how to get it from there into my photoshop elements. :(

[luis_relampago]

Load your .atn file to your actions folder by copy and paste the file inside the actions carpet.
start> my computer> c drive> program files> adobe> Photoshop> presets> actions