Daily Stuff: February 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Pay It Forward Day - My Favorite Photoshop Actions

Today I'm going to do something a little different. Here is a list of my favorite Photoshop actions and either links to the actions, or links to descriptions of the technique.

In no particular order:

Velvia and Provia - This one is great to punch up your colors. It will create a copy of your image. Use the copy as a new layer in your original image and play with the opacity. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1044147
Gothic Glow http://www.atncentral.com/zip/gothicglow.zip
TLR Clarity Enhance - Very similar to Clarity in Lightroom. But sometimes I just use my Local Contrast action below. http://www.thelightsright.com/TLRClarityEnhancement
Monte Zucker Soft Focus - FANTASTIC for softening up portraits. http://www.eddietapp.com/PDFs/SoftFocus.pdf
My Ortan Effect - link coming soon. But in the mean time click on the Contact Me link and I will email it to you.
My Local Contrast - link coming soon. But this one is easy, Use the Unsharp Mask with the Amount set for 20% and a Radius of 50.
Panos Rule of Thirds Crop - For when you are "...just not sure..." http://www.panosfx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=183&Itemid=27
Holga Effect Old Toy Camera by Dave Ward - This is a fun action if you like the Holga look. This action gives you a lot of layers you can play around with and adjust the final image. http://www.fika.org/davew/judebear/PSActions/Old_Toy_Camera_by_Smaragd.zip
My Lens Baby Effect - still working on this one