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Originally Posted by Ginger_79
My problem with most actions is, that I don't like "overdone" photos. So usually tweak quite a bit and rarely use an action at 100%. It's a problem I have with most of the photographer/action blogs and homepages. I hate it, when the first thing I see is a picture with extremely deep colours and kid's eyes that I find outright spooky. IMO about 80% of all edited kid portraits on those sites have "creepy kid" eyes.
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Very true. Sometimes I even like the "before" more than the "after". Even with some of my favourite action authors.
Still, with some shots actions can help to improve the quality. My favourite set is
Blessings by Paint the Moon. But before investing into actions I'd try some freebies. Paint the Moon had a freebie called Wonder Quickie, which is a totally great one for basic tweaking. I don't know if it's still online. But it's good to play with the freebies to learn if the particular author's products are worth investing into.
As far as non-action tweaking is concerned, I love Curves in Photoshop + duplicating pictures and playing with their Overlay / Opacity.