Grain, Colour Punch and Desaturate Photoshop Action

[Paul Lange]

This is 2 actions added together, the first adds texture and punches the colours up a little. The second adds a Black & White version of the image as a layer to desaturate the image. You can play around with the layers opacity until you are happy with the level of desaturation. Should be good for any image were the textures and the important element and you want to keep some colour.

Here's the result after the actions and a bit of selective dodge and burning

And here's the original image

The download is here
http://www.realphotographersforum.com/downloads/Texture_Punch_Desat.zip

 

[Hamish Gill]

Nice one Paul, i must have a play with this at some point!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Certainly adds some punch to it ..love it and really works with this shot........looks like more time in front of the PC....Mmmmm