This is a small thing iv found over the short time iv been "Photoshopping", im not sure if everyone knows this but here we go:-

This "effect" will make the colours in a photo more vibrant and give the photo and overall more professional look.

I will show you how to go from this:



To this:



in less than 30 secs

Pull up any stock/photo you want

"Ctrl+A" then "Ctrl+C" then "Ctrl+N" "enter" then "Ctrl+V" twice

On the top layer/duplicate, go to filter>blur>gaussian blur set the blur to 4.8

set the layer to "overlay"

create a new blank layer and click "Ctrl+A" make sure the foreground colour is black the go to edit>stoke and set a border size appropriate to the size of the image

and there you go all done

this may take a bit longer the first time but after a while you will get used to it and be able to do it quicker and quicker

Thanks for reading hope this has been a help to someone

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