We are unfortunately in the path of tropical storm Harvey. They are now saying it might be a Category 3 hurricane when it hits Texas and over 2 feet of rain is predicted in our area over the weekend through early next week. Not great news when you live in an area built on a former swamp now covered in cement...
We are in for a wet and scary ride and might lose power (or float away), so I will most likely be off the computer until next week. Some good news, Duke and I are on the mend. Still coughing like crazy but feeling much better. So we can use this time to rest and get our strength back. Unless I have a heart attack from the weather-related stress since my anxiety levels go crazy when we have dangerous weather like this. I am joking, I won't have a heart attack or float away! However, I wish I had bought some wine before the grocery stores got crazy. ;-)
I am praying that all of you in the path of this storm will stay high, dry, and safe.
I decided to distract myself and write a new action to share with you. I call it "Vintage Suede B&W" an it goes perfectly with my "Cracked Glass Plate" texture I released earlier this week.
Here is the action applied to a image of Duke as a little boy. Sigh, this seemed like just the other day. Looking at this image reminded me that their early childhood years were during a horrible Texas drought and I remember telling Paul I will never complain about rain again. Of course, I broke that promise when we first moved into this house and had 10 inches of rain over one afternoon which flooded our garage.
Texas has really extreme weather. No wonder I have weather-related anxieties! OK, enough about my neuroses, on to the action tutorial!
Thanks to the talented Annie Spratt at Unsplash for the images I used in this tutorial (poppy, children, roses, tattoo).
CoffeeShop "Vintage Suede B&W" Action Tutorial:
Run "Vintage Suede B&W".
When the Levels adjustment layer comes up, adjust the contrast sliders under the curve and the left Output Levels slider. It is preset for a slight matte-effect, but you can bump up the contrast or increase the matte-effect.
This is the image after the action finishes running. You can adjust each layer's opacity and/or paint on the layer masks.
For this image I turned down the "Recover Shadows" layer to 35% opacity.
I used a low opacity black brush and selected and painted the "Darken" layer off the roses to brighten them slightly.
I added my "Cracked Glass Plate" texture. You can download it here for free!
I put the texture in Overlay blending mode (try soft light, screen, multiply or a combo of these blending modes for different effects) and dragged it under the "Contrast Adjustment" layer, but over the "B&W Conversion" layer. This looks great, but I wanted to make the edit look more aged and distressed.
To do this, simply drag the cracked glass overlay on the top. It really ages it.
Finally, I thought it would be fun to add back a bit of color, so I turned down the "B&W Conversion" layer to 80%. I don't do this on many images, but it really worked on this one.
I am really happy with this edit. It is very moody, almost haunting.
Download the CoffeeShop "Vintage Suede B&W" Photoshop/PSE Action!
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