Actions, brushes, swatches, styles, textures etc.

[Jakaleena]

After hunting all over the site several times for an action someone posted, and after a very good suggestion from Stephen M to gather our "goodies" together for easy access, I'm starting this thread to hopefully round them all up.

If you have a particular goodie you'd like to add, please use your subject line to indicate briefly what it is and what it does (like this).

Action: Decrack

Texture: Denim

Then, in the message box, give a brief description of what it does and attach it as a .zip file (don't forget the 100k size limit). That way it can be easily and quickly found by anyone who's looking.

If you've already posted a goodie somewhere else in the forums, please go ahead and repost it here.

[Jakaleena]

Action: Decrack (PS 5.x)

Clean up cracks and tears with this action.

Click here for Decrack instructions

[Jakaleena]

Action: Decrack (PS 6.x & 7.x)

Clean up cracks & tears with this action

Click here for Decrack Instructions

[Jakaleena]

Action: Isolate Posterized Layers

Originally posted here by DannyRaphael

In a nutshell the grayscale tone or color of interest is selected using the Eyedropper tool... then the action invokes the SELECT/COLOR RANGE function to create a selection, which is used against the base posterized layer to create a new layer.

[Jakaleena]

Action: Kaleidoscope

Originally suggested here by Blacknight


Make your images look like a kaleidoscope.

[Jakaleena]

Action: Dust Removal

Originally posted here by Stephen M

Attached to this new post is my v5.x or higher SmartDuster action - which is designed to remove many small dust artifacts without sacrificing image quality. Often only this step is needed, other times the harsher spotting action is needed in addition - and then some manual retouching to polish things off.

[Jakaleena]

Action: Auto Spotting

Originally posted here by Stephen M

v5.x or higher [autospotting] action

[Jakaleena]

Action: Split Channels

Originally posted here by DannyRaphael


This action will generate and display the corresponding RGB, CMYK and Lab channels for a given image.

[Stephen M]

Brush: Retouch Brush Set

Photoshop 5.x or higher .abr brush set consisting of various sized soft/med/hard brushes. JASC PSP users can use the brush set by altering the extension from .abr to .jbr (untested).

Stephen Marsh.

[Stephen M]

Action: Another Sharpen Action...

This action is for Photoshop 5.x or higher and is designed to be run in batch mode if needed.

EPLBVHI USM - Edge Protected Luminosity Blend Variable Halo Intensity Unsharp Mask.

USM is applied to high contrsast edges and flat areas are ignored.

The read me stop message is disabled by default. A flat file will result. Undo the last step or disable the flatten command in the action to have access to the split light/dark USM halo layers.

Stephen Marsh.

[Stephen M]

Action: Enhance Detail

Photoshop 5.x or higher action originally designed to satisfy a picky customer who had transparencies of oil paintings drum scanned by our company and wanted more detail in the brush strokes.

A new layer containing the high frequency image detail results which is set to 25% opacity in multiply blend mode. The opacity can be altered and masks applied where necessary.

Stephen Marsh.

[Stephen M]

Action: Reduce USM

Photoshop 5.x or higher action for reducing the sharpness of drum scanned negatives or overly sharpened images.

A flat file results, undo the last command to access the USM reduction layers.

Stephen Marsh.

[Mike Needham]

Heres a little something to keep you going - I have not tried any of them

http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_plugins.html

[DJ Dubovsky]

Action: Reduce Shadows

Jak,
Here's and action to reduce shadows that I had uploaded on another forum thread.
DJ

[Blacknight]

MysticSPC Action

Photoshop up to version 6. Version 7 gives only top of screen. I'm sure this could be fixed, but I haven't.

This is really a simple action (craquelure with a twist), but you can mess with it and make it look more like its name. I included a sample in the zip with a couple of different colors using the hue/saturation colorize option.