ACTIONS, Photo-Art Photoshop ACTIONS: The Mother of all Collections

[d_kendal]

Blocky Art

[DannyRaphael]

Click here.

This is a very colorful action.

Thanks Bill!

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~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

In this thread you'll find an interesting discussion on black and white, plus a very creative action.

Click here.

Well done again, Bill.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

This action is based a tutorial by CherylH (click here to see it).

Pictures worth 1000 words...

Example 1:
Before 1: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=56702
After 2: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=56703

Example 2:
Before 2: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=56705
After 2: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=56706

~DannyR~

[DannyRaphael]

AUGUST 2003

Don't have enough actions yet?

Version 7 of the DPReview Retouching Forum Action Collection is now available:

11 authors
11 action sets
152 actions

78 – Photo-art
41 – Edge, Frame or Matte
19 – Utility (general purpose)
8 – Tutorials
6 – Black and White

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Click the DOWNLOAD ACTIONS button here: http://www.geocities.com/kafuensis/

~DannyR~

[DannyRaphael]

With the October/November NAPP mag came a special Photoshop CS supplement which includes several articles describing the new CS features.

Ted LaCascio wrote one entitled "Combining Filter Effects in Photoshop CS" in which he describes a filter combination that attempts to create an oil-painting look.

The attached action is based on his steps, which I took the liberty to enhance. This is the second version of this action, which was modified 1/04.

Before: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=61093
After: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=61157

~Danny~
Downloads: 147

[DannyRaphael]

The next three posts were made at the request of member feivel, who created a pretty nifty, action. Pictures worth 1K words.

This post: Before image
Next post: After
3rd post: Download package, including the action and some additional information.

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Thanks, feivel, for donating your handiwork so others can benefit from your creativity.

[DannyRaphael]

After the action was applied.

[DannyRaphael]

This post contains the .zip package.

To get feivel's actions into your Actions Palette.
* Left-click the attachment link
* Click SAVE (and specify location)

When the .zip file download is complete, choose the Open option which will invoke Winzip, Stuffit or equivalent to "unzip" the file -- ass-u-me-ing you have a decompression program installed.

From Photoshop's Actions Palette Menu, chose LOAD ACTIONS... and navigate to the .atn location. Click OK to copy the contents of the .atn file into your Actions Palette.

[beachguy82]

After playing with the DPreview set of actions I got inspired and tried to make my own. I'm fairly proud of it. Four months ago I hadn't even used photoshop before. It uses parts of lots of other actions and has some touches of my own. It works great on some pictures and just works horrible on others. Try it and let me know how it worked for you. I've only ran it on my 5MP images, I don't know how well it works with other dpi. Here's a link to a gallery of some of my "art" made with the action.



http://www.pbase.com/cbowman/combo_painter_action

[beachguy82]

here's the Combo Painter action

Replaced .zip file attachment because apostrophe in file name causes problems. - DannyR

[DannyRaphael]

Since the original post got zapped (my fault), I'm reposting this action set that includes Bud's version of the popular David Rowley Hayes Island Cafe effect.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

If you have the Jasc Virtual Painter plugin (http://www.Jasc.com) one of the actions in this action set might come in handy...

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IMPORTANT: As of February 2004, there are two versions of Virtual Painter: 3.0 and 4.0.

You MUST play the action that corresponds to the version of Virtual Painter you have installed. The VP3 action is not compatible with VP4; the VP4 action is not compatible with VP3.

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These actions:
* Duplicate the current image and flattens the copy
* Apply each of VPs 12 filters to copies of the Background layer, plus generates two extra layers based on the black strokes (only) rendered by the Collage and Drawing filters

Virtual Painter 3.0 is not "action friendly." When you record an action that includes commands executing a VP 3 filter, the settings applied when the action is played are the ones specified the last time that filter was applied, which may not be the ones that were recorded.

This is not a problem with VP4 actions.

Anyway, have fun with this.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

This action is part of the collection that can be downloaded here:
http://www.geocities.com/kafuensis/

It creates a "chrome-like" effect using a Curves adjustment layer. I got the Curves settings from Linda Vich, hence the name.

On some pics it looks pretty neat, but don't try it on people!

Before:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=63991

Examples after applying the action:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=64026
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...=&postid=64030

~Danny~

[photofixer]

This is a new action I just wrote. It creates an engraved bronze plaque from your image and custom text.

It can be used for special occasions, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, poems, quotes, awards and acknowledgements.....just anything you could think of to put on a plaque. Just open your image and start with the first action in the set. It will walk you through preparing your text and then creating the plaque with the second action.

I hope you enjoy it.

Sharon

[photofixer]

oops.... I forgot to say that the image I used is from the collection of royalty free stock photos at Image After (http://imageafter.com/).

Sharon

[budguinn]

Originally Posted by photofixer

This is a new action I just wrote. It creates an engraved bronze plaque from your image and custom text.

It can be used for special occasions, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, poems, quotes, awards and acknowledgements.....just anything you could think of to put on a plaque. Just open your image and start with the first action in the set. It will walk you through preparing your text and then creating the plaque with the second action.

I hope you enjoy it.

Sharon

Sharon, what a delightful action.....really gives a very unique look...thanks so much for sharing.

bud guinn

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by growlin_stan

Hi, newbie here! This is just the kind of thing I want to do, so how do I import that action into photoshop CS?

Welcome to RetouchPRO, GS...

Once you download/unzip the .zip file, the .atn file needs to be "loaded" into the Photoshop Actions palette before it can be used. Here's how to do that:

1. F9 to display the Actions Palette
2. Top/right of palette... click the arrow to show the menu
3. From the menu choose Load Actions...
4. Navigate to the unzipped .atn file(s)
5. Click on the .atn file name, then click OK. This copies the action set file from your hard disk into the Actions palette.

Check out the built-in help topics on actions. In the PS Help dialog, search on "actions" or "automation."

For a very comprehensive tutorial on PS Actions, check out:
http://www.atncentral.com/installing.htm

Hope this gets you moving.
~Danny~

[tashabug]

I am not in a position to be using the newer versions of Photoshop. I use 5.5 and wonder if anyone has any actions for frames for that version or any other tips and help would be appreciated. If I am in the wrong forum and no one wishes to help then please let me know. tashabug

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by tashabug

I am not in a position to be using the newer versions of Photoshop. I use 5.5 and wonder if anyone has any actions for frames for that version or any other tips and help would be appreciated. If I am in the wrong forum and no one wishes to help then please let me know. tashabug

Welcome, tashabug:

You are definitely in the right place. Unfortunately actions that are compatible with Photoshop 5.0, 5.5 are getting to be very, very difficult to find on the net.

Have you tried the sample frame actions that shipped with Photoshop? Those would be good ones to learn from if you want to start writing your own actions.

Here's a link to some actions that as far as I know are still PS 5.5 compatible:
http://www.liknes.no/photoshop/index.asp

I don't believe there are any "frame" actions among them, but there are numerous "edge" actions that might be of interest.

I hope this gets you moving. Thanks for posting your question.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

I was sure I'd uploaded this "somewhere," but darned if I can find it.

So here it is again. I used it (along with Impressionist) to render the attached painting. Photo by Stephanie Gaspard.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

I was tinkering today and came up with a quick/easy way to render a 4-up effect that may be of interest.

Click here for an example of the result.

Each pane can be modified for color or other effect.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

Click HERE to jump to the thread where the action, crafted by our very own and talented Brazillian resident, Roland, can be downloaded.

I really admire like the approach Roland takes with this action: creating layer filled with various shades of gray and adding layer masks based on color channels. If you dissect his action, you're sure to learn something new.

The attached image was rendered by his action collection. When finished applying Ro's actions, I created a new layer and Alt + Layers > Merge visible.

To the merged layer I applied Photoshop's Rough Pastel's filter, added a little noise and added a Curves adjustment layer so I could tweak the tones a bit.

That's one of the things I like about this sport. You can take a great idea, then add your own custom touches to it.

~Danny~

p.s. And thanks to jaykita for a recent post. I'd completely missed this action when it was originally made available. Too many threads, too little time!

[DannyRaphael]

On the right image this action can give you a good start on getting a painted look. If you have the Impressionist plugin, you'll get even better results.

In the attached example:
* Left: Original
* Middle: As rendered by the action
* Right: After duplicating the original background, dragging to the top of the layer stack, setting blend mode to Darken and applying the Impressionist Conte > Faithful style

Have fun!

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

On the right image this action can give you a good start on getting a painted look. If you have the Impressionist plugin, you'll get even better results.

In the attached example:
* Left: Original
* Middle: As rendered by the action
* Right: After duplicating the original background, dragging to the top of the layer stack, setting blend mode to Darken and applying the Impressionist Conte > Faithful style

Have fun!

~Danny~

Ooooh Danny! You've surpassed yourself on this one. I simply LOVE it! Thank you so much for your generosity.

[DannyRaphael]

Thanks to member Goldcoin, I was checking out this site:

http://www.lths.org/brady_files/comp....html#projects

...and started to tinker with the "Pixel Face" tutorial:

http://www.lths.org/brady_files/digitalpixelface.htm

I hadn't used the "wave" filter much in the past and I discovered the "square wave" setting rendered some interesting results.

So I started puttering around with an action and came up with one that (to me) has lots of artsy possibilities. In addition to Photoshop's Wave and Mosaic filters, it also uses the Tiles filter.

The attached examples were all "experiments" with the various filter settings and blend modes.

Seems to work fairly well (if you can call it that) on portraits, not so good on scenery-type pics. I preferred the BW results, but color is still possible by clicking off the Channel Mixer adjustment layer.

Have fun.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

Click HERE to be taken to the thread where you can download ByRo's sketch action.

Example results:
* http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=14220
* http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=14221

[Legacy~Art]

http://www.chainstyle.com/freebies.html

Freebies for photoshop scripts etc...

[DannyRaphael]

Source: Adobe Studio Exchange

[DannyRaphael]

Based on the effect created here by photobobbie:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-based-art/10029-arizona-village.html

See examples here, too:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...4566#post84566