03.17Free Photoshop actions
This article was written by Mike Panic
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One of the best things about Photoshop is the ability to automate tasks for a faster, more streamlined workflow. I’ve written a few for simple things I do often when post processing photography files, however there are thousands of other Photoshop users out there who write some amazing actions and give them away for free. The main resource for them is Action Central, home to hundreds of these actions.
A must download on the site are some of the black and white actions. I’ve done the digital black and white conversion just about every way you can, from using the channel mixer to just plain old convert to grayscale. I’ll be honest that doing digital black and white work can be one of the trickiest of all digital post processing for a photographer because of the options. With film, you choose the film based on how you want the output. Today, you shoot digital color and adjust after the fact. Action Central has several great black and white actions as well as a slew of sepias that are simply amazing.
Also worth checking out are the tutorials on the site, the Lomo actions and some of the really cool border actions that can really make your images pop.
The actions are easy enough to install, most can be simply drug into the actions pallet of Photoshop from your desktop after downloading.
Everything on the site is free; however there is a donation button on the home page. If you like the site and download some of the actions, consider throwing a few bucks to keep this great resource up and running.
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Very nice site. I’ve always played around with actions when I first install an update to Photoshop. I tell myself, “I’m going to use all kinds of actions now and make myself so much more productive.” Then a week passes by and I end up forgetting that promise.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:54 pm