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The Photography Institute - Become a Freelance Photographer or Start an Exciting New Hobby! Photography Tips & Tutorials. CoffeeShop Perfect Portrait 2 Action - FINALLY! To celebrate my new domain name (CoffeeShop's new address is but the old one will still work) and to also show how much I appreciate you, my reader, I want to present my new updated Perfect Portrait PS/PSE action (you can find the old version here, the download link for this new updated version is at the bottom of this post). This is as close as you can get to a one-stop portrait action. Not only can you completely retouch a portrait (skin, eyes, teeth) you can also pop color and contrast, sharpen, add a gritty effect, vignette, or even convert to a B&W image. As long as your white balance is adjusted and you have corrected major skin flaws, you shouldn't have to do anything else to your SOOC (straight-out-of-the-camera) images before running this action. CoffeeShop Perfect Portrait 2 Action Instructions: I usually try to move my shadow (left) and highlight (right) sliders under the curve as seen below.

You can see it really brightens up this dark image. Photography / Tips and Inspiration. 100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals. Photography as both a profession and a hobby is an incredibly expansive topic that covers a remarkably vast range of subjects from science and art. No matter where you lie on the professional spectrum, there is simply always more to learn.

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