5 Easy Steps to Make Photos Pop In Photoshop

In order to make photos pop, you will want to add vibrance, contrast and brightness. There are simple and complex ways to achieve this. In this brief tutorial, I will be showing you this super fast and easy trick to making your photos pop in just five steps.

1. Open your photo in Photoshop.
2. Duplicate the Background Layer of your image.
3. Change the blending mode of the duplicate Background Layer to the Soft Light Blending Mode. 

4. Now the image should have some more vibrance and contrast.

5. Lastly, add a Curves Adjustment Layer to this image to brighten the image slightly. 

And you are done! Your final image should have more contrast, vibrance and brightness! Like this:

See that wasn’t too hard. However, just in case you don’t want to go through these steps every time; I created a free action for you! Download it below:

Make It Pop Free Action

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