Dallas, TX

Recipe:

Yin/Yang to taste
Green with Envy @ 30% on grass only
Prettyizer @ 100%
Oh Snap @ 60%
Burnout @ 100% (erased some of the burnout over the green/land area)
Troy @ 20% (deleted selective desaturation and overall desaturation)

Santa Rosa, CA

Photo info:

Shot in RAW and processed to taste

Recipe info:

· Troy 100%

· Acid Washed 22%

· Dirty Lovin o Opacity 64% o Fill 74%

· EZ Burn o Opacity 65% o Fill 100%

· Oh Snap! 73%

Kristin Adams
Philadelphia, PA
www.kristinannephoto.com

Recipe:
Lux (Soft) @ 100%
Claire-ify @ 71%
Select-O-Sharp to taste
Boutwell Magic Glasses @ 100%
Troy @ 66%
Vignette & Blur @ 91%

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Before

Karina Orgill
West Jordan, Utah

Recipe:

1. Boutwell Magic Glasses at 100%
2. Super Fun Happy with Desaturate Red Channel Layer turned off and Warm Up layer at 75%
3. Troy at 48% with selective desaturate at 74%
4. Dirt Bag at 65%, and changed layer type to Color Burn
5. Duplicated layer set at Multiply at 28%

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Before

Puna Miller
Dunkirk, MD

Recipe:

1. Troy – full strength
2. Homestead – full strength
3. Selected the “Faded Edge” layer after running the Homestead action and duplicated it – full strength
4. Lighted the photo
5. Increased the contrast until I get the bright sepia color.

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Bridgette Marie Balmes

www.bridgettemarie.com
www.bridgettemarie.com/weddings
www.bridgettemarie.typepad.com
I wanted subtle. I was looking for a specific tone that didn’t change gown’s color too much but gave the shot a real mood. There was a authentic captian’s wheel at the top of this house and I had just finished a bridal fashion shoot. The model and I snuck upstairs to capture this at sunset. We took the (fresh off the trunkshow) Oscar de la Renta gown and literally ran away from the stylists. They found us after about 5 minutes…but I had already got the shot.

Here is my subtle recipe:

1. Yin/Yang all over folds of skirt.
2. Get Faded (summer) at 20%
3. Get Faded (autumn) at 15%
4. Select-o-sharp on the skirt, wheel and dial
5. Troy- turned off extra warm and selective desat/ CC at 62% and Overall desat at 57%
6. Slice like a Ninja to sharp at 60%

I love this picture, it was worth the trouble I got into.

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Alejandra Sura
San José, Costa Rica

www.alesura.com

Recipe:

1. Contrast 100%
2. Flatten
3. Boutwell Magic Glasses 100%
4. Pro Retouch on skin
5. Flatten
6. Highlight Separator  80%
7. Flatten
8. Cool as a Cucumber 80% (with mask on models)
9. Flatten
10. Troy 40%

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Ashley Littlejohn
Martinsville, IL USA

Recipe

1. Bump up the curves
2. Run the Troy action at 100%
3. Use layer masking & remove a little of the effect on the skin & clothes
4. Flatten the image
5. Run the Troy action a second time at 100% and flatten.

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Brian Bailey
Ventura, CA USA

1. Boutwell Magic Glasses 55%
2. Sparta 100%
3. Lux (soft) 100%
4. Troy 100%
5. Grandma’s Tap Shoes 56%
6. Grandma’s Tap Shoes merged (removed the antennas, etc.)
7. Homestead (B&W) 16%
8. Dirty Lovin 69%

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Before

Clark Buiser

Batangas City, Philippines

My Recipe:

1. Run Troy at 100%
2. Brush  the sky with 100% opacity and 50% flow on Color Curve
3. Flatten
4. run BigBlue at 100%, Brush the sky with 100% opacity and Flow
5. flatten
6. run BigBlue again at 100%, Brush the sky with 100% opacity and Flow
7. flatten
8. Burn the left part of the sky with 50% exposure on midtones
9. run Oh Snap at 100%
10. run slice like a ninja at 50%
11. flatten
12. Run burn out at 50%