In this course you'll learn how to build your own multi-layer dodge and burn action. This action provides you with all the layers you’ll need to selectively alter exposure in any image! It’s one of the most effective techniques for enhancing your photos in a fast, repeatable, and stylish way.

The difference between a good and a great image often comes down to colour. You can start with a great subject, nail the composition and expose the image perfectly, but, if you don’t get the colours right, it will still look like a snapshot.

In this course, you'll build a custom colour toning action that provides all the layers you need and a great framework for colour toning.

Converting an image to black and white involves more than just desaturating it. The action you will build in this course has multiple layers to control the conversion, contrast, toning, vignette and film grain of the finished image.

In this course you’ll learn how to build two different sharpening actions.

The first action resizes your image, sharpens it, and then adds a watermark—with you in control at every step. The second creates three sharpening layers so you can selectively and creatively sharpen different aspects of your image.

Every image you make needs some sharpening, and these actions make it easy and repeatable.

The previous four Coffee Break Courses taught you how to build some great Photoshop actions and gave you all the skills you need to build your own actions.

This course takes things a step further and looks at some best practices for building actions, such as:

Why you need to use unique layer names.

How to undo mistakes when making actions.

How to make actions appear on top of the layer stack.

How to use Photoshop’s tools in your actions.

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