Action edit using “New York City” B&W action

written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com Everyone loves a good black & white! I’m going to show you how I go from a SOOC image (straight-out-of-camera) to a beautiful black & white using the “New York City” action from the Everyday Elements “City Lights B&W” action set. I don’t normally crop my images (I like to […]

How to Install Actions in PSE 11

Photoshop Elements 11 was released in late September with major changes to the layout of the full edit (not called “Expert”) mode. In addition to those changes, they added a new panel/palette – the Actions panel. After  years of requests by users to make installing actions easier, Adobe listened and you can now add actions […]

Action Edit “Baby Clean”

this post written by Beckie of www.beckiegkengle.com I wanted to show you my step-by-step workflow using the “Baby Clean” (and a few others) action from the Everyday Elements “Everyday Essentials” action set. I edited this image in Photoshop CS5. (tech info for those interested, I shot this on my D700 and 50mm f/1.4 at ISO […]

How to Use Curves Presets {and free presets giveaway}

Remember (way back) when I did a tutorial on how PSE users can access the Curves adjustment via an action? Presets were briefly mentioned towards the end and for a while I gave a few away as a free download. Today I am revisiting curves presets, which can give you some very quick and easy […]