Recipe Mondays No. 6 { Totally Rad Actions }

December 28, 2009

Alrighty then! So now that I have given you a REAL Recipe earlier today, I’ll bet you didn’t think I would post a Rad Actions recipe as well, did you? Lucky for you, I had TWO treats in store for you today and now here is my sixth installment of Recipe Mondays using Totally Rad Actions!

Here’s the original of a beautiful baby boy I shot a couple of weeks back.
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Adjusted the curves via Photoshop CS4.
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Yin/Yanged around the eyes a little.
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I then flattened the image and clone stamped the background to remove the black part of the background.
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I then used the Yin/Yang tool again and “Yin’d” the background to get rid of the dark splotches.
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Boutwell Magic Glasses at 60% opacity.
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Flatten the image once again and desaturate in Photoshop.
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Milk & Cookies at 35% opacity. Then turn down the TWEAK! to 50% and the highlight pinch down to 70%.
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Now do Boring Selenium at 40% to give it a warmer black & white tone.
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So now here’s your before & after. What do you guys think? I’d love to hear your thoughts!!
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  1. Mary - Love it!!! Beautiful job!
  2. renee - Gorgeous! I'm going to try that with a couple of my own images later this week.
  3. jenny tarau - shweeeeeeeeeet!!!
  4. Jaime Donvian - Love it! You did an amazing job! Thanks for sharing!
  5. Curtis Farmer - Beeee-u-tee-ful! Funny, I hadn't thought about doing a desat before running the black and white action. Kind of makes sense... to keep the darker colors from overpowering the image perhaps? Thanks for sharing!
  6. Alex Palma - Beautiful treatment.....what a change. That bab was already beautiful in the 'before' photo but what an impact the 'after' photo displays. Great Job!
  7. ajira - Love it... great job. I love warm black & whites. Thanks for sharing!
  8. carrie scruggs - This is so fun Caroline! I had NEVER thought to desaturate before running a b/w action! LOVE IT!
  9. Aria - I'm new to your site, and I love these "Recipe Mondays"! Thank you so much for these wonderful tutorials. Your work is so beautiful! This shot turned out so great.
  10. Caroline Ghetes - Thanks everyone and thank you Aria! Welcome!

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