Color Pop in Photoshop: Achieving that Ultra Colorful Look
Want to color pop your images in Photoshop? This week’s Blueprint shows one way to achieve rich, super powerful color. I get asked about this look all the time in reference to a few photographers who pull out these deep hidden colors. This look and style is trendy and fun, and many will love it, but some will not. Recently it seems either photos are heavily color popped or the opposite, using vintage photoshop actions.
For this Blueprint, I wanted to show you how to get rich, vibrant colors using color pop Photoshop actions.
Here are the details of this edit – all the actions used, except the frame, were from the Bag of Tricks Photoshop action set.
- Since I wanted to show a rich, deep color pop, I started with the Magical Color Finder Brush {Intense} action. I applied this with a 100% opacity brush everywhere except on the skin and jeans, as I did not want the skin to get red or the jeans to glow too much. I decided to get crazy and adjusted the opacity of this layer to 83%.
- The photo seemed dark in spots, and I wanted to fill in some light. I ran Magic Fill Light action at 34%.
- To make the photo more crisp, I ran Magic Clarity and adjusted the opacity to 54%.
- I wanted a bit more light on her face, so I used the Magic Light action and painted with a 30% opacity brush on her face, layer opacity left on default setting.
- Then I finished up with the Magic Dark action and with a 30% opacity brush, I pained around the edges of the photo, layer opacity left on default setting.
- For display purposes, I used the Frame It Small action from the Finish It set on both the before and after, which resizes and sharpens for web and adds a frame for the finishing touch.
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SEO for Photographers: 10 Chances to Win the Photographer’s SEO Book
SEO for photographers is so important. When local customers are looking for a specific type of photographer, you want to rank high in Google and other search engines.
Are you a photographer? Do you rank high in the search engines? If not, do you want to?
This SEO for Photographers Book will help you drastically. You can enter to win one of 1o being given away just by commenting to this post.
Here is your chance to win the SEO guide for photographers. Your photography business needs an SEO strategy to stay competitive. Zach Prez, the author of this guide and guest writer and sponsor for the MCP Blog, teaches photographers to optimize for search engine optimization. He is also consulting with MCP Actions for future SEO growth.
Contest Details:
10 SEO e-book guides will be given away to MCP readers. You could be one of the lucky ones. If you do purchase now, and win, your money will be refunded.
The Photographer’s SEO Book gives detailed step by step instructions on how you can improve your spot on Google. I just revamped parts of my site and am making adjustments to my blog so that I can come up higher in search results too. Of course it takes little work, time, and patience. But it will be worth it. I learned so much from the book and from my consultation with Zach, the author. Zach Prez has been doing search engine optimization for small businesses for 6 years, while working full time on major SEO projects for large corporations as a full-time job.
HOW TO ENTER:
Leave a comment on the blog (not on Facebook), and let us know why you need SEO for Photographers. Also let us know your SEO goals for your business in this upcoming year. Make it realistic. Tell us what terms you want to rank high for and your page goal for the searches. The Photographer’s SEO Book Winners will be drawn at random on Sunday, March 7th.
For a BIG BONUS ENTRY:
I have a favor I am asking of my readers. When I switched servers and blogs, I lost a lot of links due to a bad wordpress plug in that was installed and it hurt my rankings for over a month before I realized it. I need some NEW links from my blog readers and customers to help my own SEO. So if you read the MCP Photoshop Blog, watch MCP Photoshop video tutorials or enjoy MCP photoshop actions or workshops, I would love some “link love.” To link up, you can add links on your site or blog to the MCP site, blog or specific post. Come back to the comments and share a link where you did this under the comments. Plus MCP Blog readers can check out your site too.
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Free Photoshop Actions: Now for Elements ~ High Definition & Crystal Clear Sharpening
Free Photoshop actions anyone? Photoshop Elements users – MCP’s FREE Photoshop Sharpening Actions are now available for Elements version 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Download the High Definition Sharpening and Crystal Clear Web Sharpening for Photoshop and for Elements now!
While visiting MCP Actions make sure to check out the other check out the Finish It Photoshop actions and the Eye Doctor and Dentist, these sets are both Elements compatible as well. More to come for Adobe Photoshop Elements soon.
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