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Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Free Photoshop Actions – ‘Cause that’s how I roll.

Would you believe that I have had this blog for almost 8 months and never used it?
My poor photographer blog sat here neglected all by itself .
Well, that is about to change starting…. now.

Big thanks to my brother Tyson for helping me doing it all for me. He’s HTML smart like that.
My big brother who set up this photographers blog

So how about more free photoshop actions?

I think this free photo shop action happens to be one of my favorite free photoshop actions.

Before you run the free Photoshop actions, make sure you start out with a well exposed photo image. If the image is too dark the action will not have the same effect. I like to use my Photoshop Lighten Action for under exposed images or you can always lighten it yourself. I prefer using curves in Photoshop.

Image straight out of camera with no photoshop actions applied
Above is the photo image SOOC (straight out of camera)

Above is the image with my free Photoshop Soft Gold action at 93% opacity

Image with Soft Gold Photoshop Action and Color Boost and Make it Pop actions
And for kicks, above is the image with…
- Soft Gold action 93% opacity
- my Color Boost action 100% opacity
- my Make it POP action 32% opacity
- and the edges burned with the exposure set at 18%

Conveniently enough, if you want to get my Make it POP Photoshop actions, Color Boost you can download it by selecting the Photoshop Actions link at the top.

To download the free Soft Gold action click below
free photoshop actions

This photo shop action is compatible with the Photoshop CS versions and is available for unlimited downloads. Enjoy!

What do I want in return? Not much, just leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts! Oh, and make sure to update your subscription/google reader accounts from my old photo blog to my new site.
Thanks!

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Photoshop Textures

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

In reference to my post on adding textures to images, Ashley asked, “Do you mind telling me where you get your texture actions? Thanks!”

Funny you say texture actions because you just reminded me that I have a texture action sitting in a lonely little corner all by itself somewhere in my Photoshop Action file. I guess I should bring it out, dust it off and use it every now and then. I usually just add the texture myself, but it would make more sense to use the action and it would be a lot more time efficient.

Where, you ask, can I find this awesome time saving texture action? Well, you can find it right H E R E. It is one of Nicole V.’s freebie actions. It’s great!

I have a large collection of textures (I think it’s more like a bad addiction). I have a couple of favorites; this first texture is one of them. I used this texture on my Out & About post.

I also layered this texture on top of the other texture.

I can’t remember where I downloaded these from, so I can’t give credit where credit is due. Sorry.

If you want to use these textures just right click and save. And if you want to start the bad habit of hoarding textures like me you can check out these two sites cgtextures.com and textureking.com. There are a whole lot more free textures out there for you to look through, but lets start small. I want to ease you into the addiction, and if your texture saving gets waaaay out of control we can start a support group.

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How about a picture? Here’s one from the archives.

This was taken back in the day where we, OK, I prayed every night for Macie’s hair to grow. It took a good two and a half years, but I think we are finally getting there.

I just adore this shot!

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