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COLOR PERFECTERSCreamy Skin Brightener - This is a perfect way to start your editing process. It helps brighten and tone the skin. If it's too warm, turn o� the Extra Warm Lightening layer. If you want to see more brightening, flatten your image and run again. See You Later {Banish} the Red Blotchies - A perfect action to help with red or orange areas on the skin. When prompted, simply select the area of skin with the most color that you are wanting to remove and let the action do it's work. Don’t be alarmed at the scary black areas while the action is running, this means it’s working properly. Be sure to paint back details like lips where you don't want color removed.

See You Later Yellow (Cool/Add Blue) - Cools down an overly warm image with yellow overtones. 

See You Later Red (Add Cyan) - Cool down an overly warm image with red overtones. 

See You Later Magenta (Add Green) - Balance an overly pink-ish/magenta image. 

See You Later Green (Add Magenta) - Cools down an overly warm image with yellow overtones. 

See You Later Blue (Warm Up/Add Yellow) - Warms up an overly cool image with blue overtones.

See You Later Cyan (Warm Up/Add Red) - Warm up an overly cool image with cyan overtones. Many times what you perceive to be too much blue in a cool photo is actually cyan (not enough red), especially images taken in shaded areas.

See You Later Cyan (Warm Up - More Subtle)  - It will warm up an overly cool image with cyan overtones. Many times what you perceive to be too much blue in a cool photo is actually cyan (not enough red), especially images taken in shaded areas. This action gives a more subtle result, if the above action added too much red to the entire image. This one is more selective.

Warm Me Back Up (Take Out Cyan and Blue) - Warming in both the Red and Blue channels (adding red/yellow ... removing cyan/blue).

Cool Me Down Combo - Cooling in both the Yellow and Red channels (adding blue/cyan... removing yellow/red).

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ALL IN ONE POWER HOUSE MEGA ACTIONSAll Together Now (All In One Workflow) - Blast through your foundation workflow edits in one action. This combines the most popular/used adjustments and actions in Picture Perfect to include contrast, pop, basic color correction (warming and cooling), optional layers for a frosted haze and paint on vibrant color, sharpening details, lightening shadows, rescuing over bright highlights, bringing depth and color to your image and more ... it even has a built in optional layer for a beautiful black and white conversion.

All Together Now (All In One Workflow - Vintage) - Includes all the layers and options of the original, with an added vintage touch from the popular Sweet Prairie Vintage action.

All Together Now (All In One Workflow - Urban) - Includes all the layers and options of the original, with an added urban touch ... unique to this particular action. Add drama and a twist of urban color to your workflow.

All Together Now (All In One Workflow - Velvet Retro) - Includes all the layers and options of the original, with an added gorgeous retro touch from the much loved Velvet Retro action.

Perfect Portrait (All In One Retouching) - Fabulous action to give you a makeover in a minute. Everything including contrast, skin smoothing, eyes, teeth, warming/cooling, brighten/darken, soft pop, and much more. Perfect for when you want to do a faster edit easily and e�ectively. I use this one myself constantly!

SKIN/EYE/HAIR RETOUCHERSCreamy and Smooth Skin - Create that lovely, creamy skin that we envy in babies ... naturally beautiful and fresh. Be sure not to paint over fine details, hair, etc. and use a gentle touch. Nobody wants to look like a plastic doll. :)

Naturally Perfect Skin - A more subtle result for creamy, smooth and natural skin.

Baby Powder (rids hot spots and shine) - Paint away hot spots and shiny skin. If needing to do di�erent areas of the skin, play action again for each subsequent area that is separate.

Vivid Eyes - Enhances color and creates pop in the iris of the eye. Not to replace standard eye enhancements and corrections (such as those done with the Miracle Makeover set's Sparkle Eyes). Please remember to be gentle, alien eyes are never flattering! If the catchlight takes on too much color, open the folder and paint over catchlights on the catchlight layer.

Hair and Eye Highlighter - A very handy action to help create pop and highlight areas in the hair, the eyes, anywhere you want a little extra pizzaz! Even works with clothing, etc. Again, be gentle and know when to lower opacity for best results.

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Artistic TouchesVelvet Retro - I LOVE this action ... beautiful on all types of portraits and beyond. 

Moonbeams - Think light and airy, the honeyed film of twilight. Turn on the Magic Color layer for an added surprise, turn it up for even more zing.

Sweet Prairie (Vintage) - Brings to mind the creamy, strawberry glow of dawn. Beautiful and vintage.

Pure Color Snap - Adds zing, color and snap! This is a go to action, lower opacity for a more subtle look.

Peach Fuzz - Delicious like the sun in late a�ernoon, mid summer.

Paint on Color Pops - Specially formulated to bring out amazing color hidden in your images ... add depth and fresh color just where you want it. DO NOT paint on skin! Lower opacity again for more subtle hints of color, this is a powerful action.

Paint on Color Pops Rich - Specially formulated to bring out amazing color hidden in your images, this time with more richness and lush, deep tones ... add it just where you want it. DO NOT paint on skin! Lower opacity again for more subtle hints of color, this is a powerful action.

Quick and Simple Color Pop - A gorgeous little burst of all over color. Selective Focus (Faux Shallow DOF Blur) - Need a little extra creamy bokeh in your image? This will help blur your back-ground just a bit more. Not meant to replace in camera bokeh, but to enhance existing bokeh. Be sure to follow directions and step your brush's opacity down to around 40% and paint around the edges of your first pass to blend properly. 

Silver Screen (B & W) - A classic and beautiful black and white.

City Sidewalk (B & W) - A beautiful black and white with a little retro style, giving you options for several different tones for unique looks..

Golden Hour - Add a gorgeous glow like the light right before sunset. Infused warm honey and rose tones.

Velvet (All Over Deep So�ness) - Creates a deep, so�ness. Be sure to paint back details in the face or other areas you want to stay sharp.

Healthy Glow Contrast - Creates a dewy, fresh look with punch. Paint back details in the face or areas you want sharp.

Creamy Haze - Leaves a milky, warm glow with a natural haze.

So� Spotlight - A little so� spotlight to focus on your subject.

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Soft Spotlight and Vignette - Create extra drama with both a soft spotlight and a natural vignette.

Soft Burnt Edges Select a Size - A soft, deep edge around your image ... you select the size you want.

ESSENTIAL DETAILS AND ENHANCERSOn Edge (Deep Detail Clarity) - Brings out the detail in deep edges, creating clarity. Use gently - can be overdone quickly. Mask back on skin areas to keep smooth.

Let's Be Clear (Lighter Clarity) - Brings out the detail in edges, creating clarity with a lighter touch. Use gently - can be overdone quickly. Mask back on skin areas to keep smooth.

Bring Back Highlights - Restores highlights that are near to being blown. Can not recover highlights where all detail has been lost, however (you'll need to try and do that with your RAW image).

Brighten Shadows - Reaches into the shadows and pulls out detail. Paints on selectively, just where you need it. Be sure to play with opacity and use a soft, larger brush.

Brighten Shadows (Light Touch Everywhere) - Pulls out details from the shadows over your entire image.

Midtone Booster - Another go to action that brightens up midtones in your image.

Instant Reflector - Use like a digital version of a fill light or reflector ... opens up shadows and brings back lost details.

Selective Light - Paint selective areas lighter as you need them. 

Selective Dark - Paint selective areas darker as you need them. 

A Little Zing - A bit of pop and contrast with a little added zing, not making shadows too deep or highlights too bright.

Brighten and Tone - Tones and lightens up your image when it's looking dark and dull. Use gently.

Simple Brighten - Brightens and lightens your image. Add contrast back after using if needed.

Perfect Contrast - One of my favorite combos for perfect contrast.

Add Light and Pop - A perfect way to brighten while maintaining nice contrast and pop to avoid a washed out look.

Contrast Actions - Little Contrast, More Contrast, Lots of Contrast 

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SHARPEN AND RESIZERSRazor Sharp for Print - Uses several di�erent methods of sharpening and light clarity to get the perfect sharpness level for print.

Sharpen Perfection - A perfect sharpener that helps keep the sharp details where you need them without over sharpening in less detailed areas.

Resize and Sharp Web for FB or Blog - Horizontal - Perfect size and crystal clear images for posting on the web. Keeps your FB or web images looking as crisp as possible, at 960 pixels wide.

Resize and Sharp Web for FB or Blog - Vertical  - Perfect size and crystal clear images for posting on the web. Keeps your FB or web images looking as crisp as possible, at 960 pixels wide.

HELPING HANDSKeyline Border - Small - Creates a white border at 15 pixels wide and black, 1 pixel keyline, resizes to 900 pixels wide.

Keyline Border - Med - Creates a white border at 50 pixels wide and black, 2 pixel keyline, resizes to 900 pixels wide.

Keyline Border - Large - Creates a white border at 85 pixels wide and black, 1 pixel keyline, resizes to 900 pixels wide.

Rounded Corners - Creates nice rounded corners on your image, resizes to 900 pixels wide.

Make Layer Mask - Reveal All - Self explanatory. Great for actions or textures that don't already have a mask included, or if you need a layer mask on your group of layers. Reveals e�ects of layer (paint with black to hide areas).

Make Layer Mask - Hide All - Self explanatory. Great for actions or textures that don't already have a mask included, or if you need a layer mask on your group of layers. Hides all e�ects of layer (paint with white to reveal desired areas).

Flatten Image - Self explanatory. Merges all layers into one Background layer.

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Fix color casts and exposure issues first.Always get your color right using the color correcting actions first, then fix exposure issues (too dark or light) next ... leaving room for a

little more lightening depending on which action you will be running. If you are using one of the all in one workflow actions, there will be

lightening and darkening layers to work with, as well as basic warming and cooling layers and other adjustments al built in. If you run a

skin smoothing or artistic action on an image with obvious color issues (too cyan, red, magenta, green, yellow or blue), it can tend to

exaggerate the color problems. So, fix color and exposure problems first, then move on to the rest of your edits. Remember that the

artistic actions play with the color in each individual image, shifting the colors and these actions may look di�erent on di�erent images

depending on what colors are prominent in your photo.

Make sure you understand your layer masks.Also remember when working with layer masks that white reveals what is underneath a mask on the layer and black conceals the e�ects.

If there is a black box on a layer, you will need to paint on that layer mask to make the e�ect visible where you want it. See the layer

mask basics in the Install Guides for more help, as well as our video tutorials on layers and layer masks. You can also adjust the opacity

and the softness or hardness of your brush while painting on layer masks - this can help achieve a more natural look as you paint and

build up the e�ect gradually (I especially recommend doing this on skin smoothing and darkening/lightening layers.

Play with layer opacity.Don’t forget to adjust your opacity on your layers - either by selecting the “Adjust All” layer or by selecting individual layers as desired if

your set does not have the Adjust All bottom layers. This is a must to get the best results much of the time since every image is unique.

When an action is first finished running, many times the opacity of the action layers or group will be at 100% opacity ... and you may

think, "Whoa - not what I was going for," at first glance. However, I most likely it will need just to a 5 second tweak to the action (see

section on customizing actions) to get just the right look depending on the photo.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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