I recently won a set of actions from JHP Photoshop Actions. For those who have never used Photoshop actions before, they are awesome! They save you lots of time in post-processing. You can even record your own actions in Photoshop, but I prefer to use actions available on the web (why spend all my time inventing something when someone already invented it?). JHP has three available action sets, and I was lucky enough to try them all! I had a lot of fun playing with them, and I wanted to show you what you can do with actions. All the pictures on the left are straight out of the camera, and the ones on the right have had actions applied to them.
Here’s a photo of a goose I found walking in the middle of the road without a care in the world (taken near Fenway Park). I applied the Majestic action from the Creative Lab set, and I love how it gave the photo some extra oomph.
There are a lot of flowers in the picture and it’s a little busy, so I used Golden Harvest from the Creative Lab set to desaturate the colors and give it a nice yellow tint.
I took this picture looking into someone’s yard, but the fence was in the way, so I just made it part of the picture! I used Instapopper from the Color Lab set. This is my favorite action because I love giving my photos that extra pop! If you want to go for a more subtle look, you can always tone it down by reducing the opacity of the effect in Photoshop.
There are also several black and white actions in the Creative Lab with varying amounts of contrast. My fav is the B&W contrast, because it’s the perfect amount of contrast. I love the diagonal branches of this tree, and something about it reminds me of an enchanted forest of a fairytale. And wouldn’t this be the perfect tree to climb on?
There is also a Retouch Lab set, which I didn’t play around as much, because I have so many pictures of friends blessed with beautiful skin and don’t need any retouching! The retouching set also includes actions to lighten/darken areas and to reduce noise, which work really well.
Here are some coupons for my readers who are interested in purchasing the actions.
Complete Set – 20% Off
Color Lab – 10% Off
Creative Lab – 10% Off
Retouch Lab Offer – 10% Off
