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