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

[Janet Petty]

Welcome officially to RTP. I'm sure you will enjoy the group around here and all of the fun we have with the art posts. Your first post is very impressive. Thank you for sharing.

Janet

[Swampy]

Thank you for the action(s). Very well done.

[Mohammed]

Thank you for the welcome and for the feedback glad you like it ! I hope some other users will post some image using it here, just curious...

[JimJam]

Very cool Mohammed.

[chillin]

I am impressed

[Steve Conway]

Like the action very much, but unable to use it. Don't use Photoshop.

The image is so nice, that I had to try something with it, so here is another interpretation.

Really enjoying the images on your website from Southern France. They bring back a lot of fond memories.

Steve

[Mohammed]

Thank you Steve for visiting my website

The image you produced is very fine !
For chillin, the action can't actually compete with software or plugins like gertrudis pro or impressionist plugin, but it give a different look and is completely free...

Cheers

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

Like the action very much, but unable to use it. Don't use Photoshop.

The image is so nice, that I had to try something with it, so here is another interpretation.

Really enjoying the images on your website from Southern France. They bring back a lot of fond memories.

Steve

[Kraellin]

welcome to RP, mohammed.

i also dont use photoshop, but thank you anyways. always nice to have members contributing software. and, it does look good.

you might want to test it out on other pictures. i've made filters and scripts that look great on one image but then not so much on others

[Mohammed]

Thank you Kraellin for this warm welcome

I've tried it with many nature landscapes, seems to work well on most images, however nothing replace human viewer eyes so you certainly have to play with the different layers at the end and try different settings

My job has nothing to do with imaging, I wish sometimes I had more time to spend in my hobbies

Kind regards

[GOLDCOIN]

A great action by PamR to create the "copyright" or whatever....

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=23862046

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by GOLDCOIN

A great action by PamR to create the "copyright" or whatever....

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=23862046

Nice catch, Carole. Definitely a nifty effect and a lot of fun to play with.

[Mitch]

For those who have bought PP Vol1, if you contact PP from their site and ask for the details of discount for existing users: the nice people at PP will Email you with details of the discount (25%). They also include a link and password to the updated Vol1 actions.

The updated bundle is renamed - so you don't have to delete your old ones.

In action some - but not all the actions leave the layers displayed after completion. Which means you can switch them off or modify them as you wish.

[Bob Mc]

Hi Mitch
Saw your info about an updated Vol 1 of Pencil Pixels. Went to their site and couldn't find anything about an update to Vol 1 but I did see a vol 2 and some other combinations now available. Is that what you were seeing?

By the way - if someone has purchased the actions they can easily turn off any merging of layers (normally right near completion of the actions steps) - by turning off the check mark next to the step. CAREFUL - there may be merging earlier in the process that shouldn't be turned off - results could be unpredictible.

Anyone experienced in reviewing and understanding the steps within an action shouldn't have any problems.

Regards

Bob Mc

[Mitch]

Hi Bob,
The site Is displaying their Volume 2 actions, but also mention a discount for vol1 owners. If you contact them from their site (top right button), requesting details of the discount; they will Email you back with details. The FREE updated vol1 link is included.
Well worth the effort!

[herrickphoto]

Thanks so much for these. They're great! Lynn

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by Mohammed

Hi all

This is my first message here, I used to visit this forum to learn from some worthy posters... and now decided to take the step

I've just made a little action that gives an impressionist paint look and would appreciate any feedback either positive or negative, just to let me know what you think, no plugin is needed, only photoshop

Here it is Impressionist action

here is an exemple before/after images (attachments)

Kind Regards to you all

Thank you for this action. I used it one the image that you provided and am posting it here. I also had trouble remembering where I saw this the first time so posted a new one of my own using your image. It is at:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...e-you-try.html

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Mohammed

Hi all

This is my first message here, I used to visit this forum to learn from some worthy posters... and now decided to take the step

I've just made a little action that gives an impressionist paint look and would appreciate any feedback either positive or negative, just to let me know what you think, no plugin is needed, only photoshop

here is an exemple before/after images (attachments)

Kind Regards to you all

Mohammed,

I don''t know how I missed your actions. They are quite good. Thank you for sharing them with us.

[mikew714]

Action set has two different actions. The second action adds a Deckle Edge without the white border.

You can adjust the color of the background using the Hue/Sat Adjustment Layer and adjust the size and strength of the drop shadow using the layer style. Action will work with images of any size/resolution using Photoshop PS7, CS, CS2 or CS3.

Have fun!

Download Action from here



Mike
MikeW-Actions

[mikajomc]

Nice! Thank you Mike!

[kliph]

Greatest thread.....EVER!!!

[Cindy Wilson]

Many Thanks for all the awsome actions...I can't wait to play.

Happy Thanksgiving.
Cindy

[Diane]

Originally Posted by 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~

Hi Danny,
Got any actions for VP 5 ?

[Diane]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

In addition to moderating the Photo-based Art forum here at RetouchPRO, I formerly administered the best collections of (mostly) photo-art actions available on the net. They were crafted by number of talented folks who frequented the Retouching Forum at www.DPReview.com, plus a few members from RetouchPRO.

Scroll to the bottom of this post for download information. Versions 7 and 6 are available.

~DannyR~

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NEW to PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS?

Not sure how to install them?

Click HERE to be routed to an actions tutorial written by RetouchPRO member David Kendal.

For an exceptionally comprehensive PS actions tutorial, may I suggest checking out the one posted at www.AtnCentral.com. It's truly The Mother of all Photoshop Action Tutorials.

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DPReview collection AUGUST 2003 - VERSION 7 AVAILABLE HERE

Version 7 (an additional 152 actions) is now available at http://www.geocities.com/kafuensis/

DPReview collection OCTOBER 2002 - VERSION 6 AVAILABLE AS AN ATTACHMENT (below)

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More actions (for the most part not arty), brushes, textures, etc. available here at RetouchPRO:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sof...tures-etc.html

Is there a 7b version of your actions?

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Diane

Hi Danny,
Got any actions for VP 5 ?

No... VP 5 "didn't do anything for me," so I passed on it.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Diane

Is there a 7b version of your actions?

There was a 7a, but no 7b.

7a = 7, less a couple actions VG contributed that he later wanted removed.

Can't believe that as of August 2009 it will be 5 years since that action pkg was posted for download.

[810924]

im using it many times.. enjoy..

[doktorrr]

Thanks for this actions.

[kiska]

Originally Posted by GOLDCOIN

A great action by PamR to create the "copyright" or whatever....

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=23862046

This action is no longer at this link. Anybody know where I can get it? Thanks

NEVERMIND. I found it tucked away in a sub folder.

[DannyRaphael]

Found a good site for FREE actions today:

http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/p/c...d-presets.html

[MsChellie]

Thank you for the frames. I have learned from going though them. Thank you to all who post your work, it helps me learn and understand better ways to use filers and affects. Thank you.

If this post does not make sense, I do not just push play on actions I go though them step by step and read them to learn more about how to do things better or just to learn from scratch.