Photoshop Wedding Photo Effects

[RHoldenSr]

What is or are your favorite Photoshop Effects for wedding photos (Vigenettes and etc.)?

[OTRphoto]

I have a couple of free ones I picked up from atncentral.com that I use pretty regularly

Dave Beaman's Ethereal Glow
Midnight Sepia
Cspringer's Skin Repair Action
Aly's Vintage

[Jenny Z]

Wow, that's a nifty set of actions there... thanks for posting that!

[RHoldenSr]

No one else?

[CobyPhoto]

Favorite effects...well lit, correctly exposed, compositionally correct and if required well posed images. People pay me big money for this, and I don't have to use photochop. (Ops, I mean photoshop! ) Imagine that.

CJ

[rott]

Originally Posted by CobyPhoto

Favorite effects...well lit, correctly exposed, compositionally correct and if required well posed images. People pay me big money for this, and I don't have to use photochop. (Ops, I mean photoshop! ) Imagine that.

Very snarky of you! Heck even TriCoast uses 'chop actions pretty regularly. They're highly paid and very successful. They must be doing something right.

Personally, I rarely use actions in Photoshop. In fact, now that I have Lightroom, I hardly get into Photoshop at all for image processing. I'll get in there for an occasional zit removal.

[CobyPhoto]

Originally Posted by rott

Very snarky of you! Heck even TriCoast uses 'chop actions pretty regularly. They're highly paid and very successful. They must be doing something right.

Personally, I rarely use actions in Photoshop. In fact, now that I have Lightroom, I hardly get into Photoshop at all for image processing. I'll get in there for an occasional zit removal.

Hold on...not Snarky. I said what I do...I didn't put anyone in the mix or start dropping names.

CJ

[rott]

Originally Posted by CobyPhoto

Hold on...not Snarky. I said what I do...I didn't put anyone in the mix or start dropping names.

Fair enough. I think we were both just trying to be funny, so back to the original topic. The OP's question was "what are your favorite 'shop actions for weddings?"

I do find that I use vignette pretty regularly in Lightroom, and I'll use a softening effect action I created in Photoshop for some portraits. I need to find one that does a better job than mine. I have masks and layers left over that I still have to hand-edit to keep the eyes, mouth, hair, etc sharp. I could probably save myself a few steps somewhere, but I've yet to figure out where or how.

[RHoldenSr]

CJ

All that is a given


Even the best pros use vignettes, blurs, glamour blurs and etc to dress up a photo for printing and placing in a book or stand alone. All these can be used to give the bride a dreamy image of her dream day don't you think

I can take a boring shot of the bride add a vignette and it becomes a great image or add a glamour blur and it becomes a great image.

Just my $0.02 worth LOL

Originally Posted by CobyPhoto

Favorite effects...well lit, correctly exposed, compositionally correct and if required well posed images. People pay me big money for this, and I don't have to use photochop. (Ops, I mean photoshop! ) Imagine that.

CJ

[AllenAyres]

Getting it right in camera (as Coby was alluding to (and of course Rott knows - his 'before' images are better than most 'after' images)) eliminates a LOT of photoshop work of "fixing" the image. Post-processing is so much easier then. For those who want to go past that into special effects (vignette, etc.) even then those effects work better - I'm hoping to do a better job of getting it right in camera this year so my 'chop work is easier than last year

My favorite actions - a vignette action Weibner shared on DWF. And some actions James Hodgkins shares on NoBS. Both save a lot of time and give professional results.

[MicWayWal]

Robin,

So your formula for a Great Image in this new Digital Age is:

Boring picture + vignette = Great Image
or
Boring picture + glamour blur = Great Image



I Don't Believe It! You are going have to show me.

[luis_relampago]

It takes a bit more than that to make a great looking image, but if you have a excellent image coming out of the camera already, "all you need is LOVE" sorry sorry..... Beatles fan here , as I was saying....not much PP is need it after all, but if you did not take a good picture not even Adobe it self with all their programs will be able to help you. It's a team effort, and like my daughter says "whats going to work??? TEAM WORK"

[adirty1]

Mostly vignettes with a blur. Sometimes I will cross process or really punch up the colors. Just depends on the feeling and mood of the image and what the client is really looking for.

[Serenity]

Does anyone like Duotones? That is kind of fun to mess around with but I also use atncentral for a lot of my actions those really do come in handy and you can do some neat things. I use the glamour Blur and a fill light action probably the most.

Edited for spelling.

[RHoldenSr]

No that is not always true.

There are times though when they can really dress up an image.

Looking at your website I would say this image is a little boring and can be dressed up by a possible vignette or etc.






I like the effect you used on this image:

Originally Posted by MicWayWal

Robin,

So your formula for a Great Image in this new Digital Age is:

Boring picture + vignette = Great Image
or
Boring picture + glamour blur = Great Image



I Don't Believe It! You are going have to show me.