Birthday Wishes & Another Action

I just wanna start out by saying Happy Birthday Mommy!
Today's my mommas birthday! I dunno if or when she'll read this, but happy birthday!

In other news, I have a new action for ya'll today! This is a quick & easy way to give your photos a splash of color where u want it & a lil color burst to make it more vibrant! Once you press play, instructions will show when its done. Click the pic below to head to the download!

Free PS Action

Well, afternoon everyone :)
I know I said I'd be on yesterday with a tutorial, but that didn't actually work out as planned. Something funky happened with my laptop and it wouldn't start up all the way & crashed. It took me all day to figure out the problem and late last night I fixed it, yay!
Aaannnnnd, I know I told ya I'd give ya a tutorial, but how bout an action instead? Yes? Ok, good! This is one I made for an effect I use myself a lot! I love it really. What it does is it turns your image black & white and gives you two layers of softness, "Soft" & "Extra Soft", just by turning their visability on & off. This action uses gaussian blur filters, where they are set for high resolution images, but there are directions within the action that tells you what to do for a low res picture as well. I hope you enjoy playing with this one like I do! Oh, and also, I made this action in PS7 so I'm not sure which PS programs it will all work in. Please lemme know in the comments below if it does/doesn't work for you. Thanks!
Click the image to download this PS .atn file!

P.S. I used some pictures of my lil sister as my example above. Isn't she gorgeous?

A New CoffeeShop Freebie!

If you don't already know, I'm in love with Rita and all of her Photoshop greatness over at her CoffeeShop Blog. I've downloaded and use most of her actions and freebies that she creates on a ton of my photos. She just updated today with yet another PS Action and I've already tried it out and wanted to share it with you!

Behold the "Bright Eyes Action". Here's some before and afters with a picture of my daughter Chloe. Remember, this is an action for the eyes, so pay attention to those. The difference is just wonderful!

Here's a close up on one of the eyes, so you can really see the difference.

I love how this really, well like it's title, brightens the eyes. It makes them pop! If you're interested in this action, head on over to Rita's blog. You can click here and it'll take you straight to that action. Once you download and install the action into PS, she explains what do with the layers and the layer masks on that page as well. While you're there, check out some of her other freebies! You won't be dissapointed!