Actions, brushes, swatches, styles, textures etc.

[Stephen M]

Due to the way that the healing tools work - healing must be done to destination pixels and not transparency.

You can either choose to heal to larger areas which have been isolated on a new layer, or simply heal on a dupe of the entire image layer.

After healing, run this Photoshop v7 action to isolate the healing and clone stamp edits, in effect this will mimic the popular clone stamp technique used on a transparent layer.

Stephen Marsh.

[john_opitz]

Here's a plug-in and/or stand alone program(free,no demo,no time limit) from Auto FX. Called Dreamy Photo.
It's o.k(not bad for free)..... AsI like to make actions myself to customize them.

Auto FX Dreamy Photo

[Don Majoros]

hi jak its me don from ohio i'm still working on a challange to submit. [ faded bueaty #23 ] having a devil trying to get the noise out. found an action that helps called edgarian blur its at adobe xchange i'm sorry i don't know how to post links but if you do a search you'll find.

[Blacknight]

Edgarian Blur

[Don Majoros]

thanks blacknight some day i'll learn how to post links
hope some onecan use this action

[Ed_L]

Don,

Here's a screenshot attached. When you post a message, you will see the screen in the screenshot. When you want to post a link, go to the web page you want to link to. Highlight the URL in the address bar, then hit "Ctrl" and "C" on the keyboard. This will copy the URL. Now type your message just as you did your last one (but with different text). When you want to post the link, click on http (highlighted on screenshot). The first box that appears is for your text, which in this case would be edgarian blur. Hit OK. The next box is for the URL. Just hit "CTRL" and "V" on the keyboard. This will paste the URL in the box. Click OK, and your done. If your not confident, try it out in the "Testing 1-2-3" forum. And thanks for the link.

Ed

[Blacknight]

"Who was that man behind the curtain," Dorothy wondered, as the powerful OZ continued his thundering speeches. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," said the man as he tried to continue speaking. "Why, it's just Ed!" Dorothy exclaimed.

[Blacknight]

A polarizing filter for Photoshop 6 and above, originally posted by Jeanie. I hate trying to find these things later...good idea to make a thread for them!

Free action at:
http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/polarizer.html

[DannyRaphael]

This action was developed for the purpose of creating "Photo Art" in conjunction with this thread in the Photo-based Art forum.

Using the Trace Contour filter on a copy of the original image it creates nine separate layers based on brightness levels incremented by 25, and places them against a white background.

The multiple layers give the user flexibility in deciding things like which layers to show or hide, line thickness and colorization. For more information, see the thread noted above.

~DannyR~

[DannyRaphael]

This action was developed for the purpose of creating "Photo Art" in conjunction with this thread in the Photo-based Art forum.

Examples of a "before" and "after" image can be seen at the post noted above.

~DannyR~

[Stephen M]

Unblur action for v5.x or higher ZIP compressed.

Stephen Marsh.

[wishy]

Apologies if this has already been submitted but photoshop users may prefer to have Bruce Beard's skin and hair colours as swatches. (hope it's not too much of a liberty to have converted them)

Unzip the swatches.zip file and place the .aco files in your swatch directory. They can then be appended to your normal swatch or loaded in on their own.

On the not unlikely chance that I fail to upload the file properly, you can download it from the following URL

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.wishart/swatches.zip

Cheers for now,
wishy

[Stephen M]

Photoshop 6 or hither action, zip compressed.

Run this action on a RGB file that does not have a tagged ICC profile describing the colour intention of the files numbers.

This action will assign the four standard RGB work space profiles and create a named history snapshot of that profile. When you are happy of the visual appearance and or CMYK/LAB number readouts for known/presumed colours - simply save/close the file to include the tag which you prefer. The next time the file is opened the correct tag will be in place and the history states will be cleared.

The script is easily modified if you wish to add other RGB profiles to the action, such as ProPhoto RGB or other wide gamut spaces.

Regards,

Stephen Marsh.

[DannyRaphael]

This action was used to create the image posted in this thread.

It's purpose is to provide an easy way to make one (or more) selections within a color image and change those selections to grayscale.

It was developed and tested using Photoshop 5.5 under Windows 2000.

~DannyR~

[DannyRaphael]

This action was used to form the base image for my entry in the Photo-Art Challenge #7.

It utilizes the Difference blend mode + the Ocean Ripple filter to achieve an unusual photo-art effect.

Note: The attachment is a replacement. The original had a bug when executed under PS7.

[john_opitz]

Free Dust and Scratches removal plug-in for A.P.S.

Well. What can you say about another D&S plug-in. It's as exciting as meeting Ronald at the Golden Arches and buying a Happy Meal and seeing what the toy is.

Dust and Scratches Removal plug-in

[DannyRaphael]

This action was used to create the image in this Photo-Art forum thread. It was inspired by the results I got on Manipulation Challenge #18, which happens to be a Tiger hence the name of this action.

It utilizes various blend modes, the Photocopy and Gaussian Blur filters, plus a copy of the original image converted to bitmap mode created in and copied from a separate image.

The result is reminiscent of a combination of Threshold, Posterization, Stamp and Photocopy all rolled into one. To me what makes the results of this action unique (and worthy of preserving in an action) is the considerably higher level of detail achieved over plain ol' Threshold and/or Stamp, while retaining the stark contrast of these effects.

Keep having fun!

~DannyR~

[DJ Dubovsky]

This is an action I created from a tutoral I had done. It took alot of tweeking to get it to work right but here it is. I thought it would be useful in that it's a pretty realistic eye and with some images I figured it might be a nice replacement for a missing eye.

The action keeps the layers in tact so you will have the ability to access the hue saturation layer to change the eye color. Hope you like it. I've never made an action of this magnitude before.
DJ

[Ed_L]

Why is it I can see that action being used in a Halloween challenge?

Ed

[DannyRaphael]

This action converts a color image to grayscale and then lets the "artist" selectively restore color onto a separate layer via an image snapshot and History brush.

This action is non-destructive. A duplicate is taken of the original image; all work is done on the copy.

This was developed/tested under PS 5.5. It "should" work OK under PS 6 and 7 as well.

EXAMPLE
Here's an example of what can be done without a great deal of difficulty.

Have fun!

~DannyR~

[DannyRaphael]

This action, based on a tutorial written by Tom Nelson at this site, was developed for the purpose of creating "Photo Art" in conjunction with this post in the Photo-based Art forum.

~DannyR~

[Blacknight]

Here is the site that has the PARCHMENT effect I used in that picture. There are 4 sets, or were when I was there last - set #3 has parchment, I believe.

[Sharon]

Attached is a very good grayscale-sepia action that I downloaded from Adobe Exchange. It's a great action for a base before colorizing a photo.

Sharon

[DannyRaphael]

This action is used to generate "Photo-art."

For further information and an example image, click HERE.

[DannyRaphael]

Love 'em or hate 'em, click here to be taken to the ultimate collection.

Cheers...

~DannyR~

[john_opitz]

Here's some tools and plugs that might help some. For cameras,graphic artists,P.S. Both stand alone and plug-in.

http://www.mediachance.com/

And yes, most are FREE !!!

[john_opitz]

Here's a new plug-in(actions) for photographs. It's a 7 day demo.

photo tool kit

[DannyRaphael]

This action was inspired by Howie Mudge.

Based on a user selection, the action:
* Lightens or darkens the frame area
* Blurs the frame area
* Applies a stroke at the frame / image boundary

A considerable amount of flexibility is built-in for adjusting frame characteristics and stroke color.

For example output click HERE.

This has been tested under PS 5.5, PS 7.

~DannyR~

[DannyRaphael]

This action was inspired by a technique described by Lynda Logan here: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read....essage=3910171

Example output can be viewed in THIS THREAD.

Version 3 has a correction to the on-screen message describing possible variations; the zip file has also been fixed. (106)

Have fun!
~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

I'll second that "Wow," Chuck. That one turned out great. Glad it worked for you.