My Actions .... A growing collection

DISCLAIMER: Use the actions at your own risk.
They may alter some of your Photoshop settings

My Actions 1 (This is a group of actions that I use. I don't remember what's in it).

Color enhancing and sharpening using LAB mode for CS2 and CS

Highlight_shadow action

New Highlight and shadow action. No adjustments made... you do them.

Al's toning action (good for sepia and such)

Any Signature (good for adding copyright to photo)

A Hue/Saturation black and white method

Zoom Blur effect

Al's Black and White and_or Sepia (doesn't affect the base layer)

My Eye Enhancement Action (Follow the instructions)

The So-called Orton Effect emulation

Color Mute For Portraits

Muted Color action with accented Highlights

An action to produce a sketch effect with color

Another COLOR POP and lightening action

Action creates a Rule-Of-Thirds path that you can store as a shape (for photo composition and cropping)

Multichannel color saturation booster

Al's Simple Color Tinting

Al Runs Amuck: An action to add grunge and give it a slight comic effect.

Highlight, Shadow, Midtones adjustment. Creates group with curves, levels, hue/sat for each

NEW VERSION: Highlight, Shadow, Midtones adjustment. ALLOWS FOR GRADIENT.

Weird Effect action. This one makes things look very Lucis Art

Another selection action. Creates three groups of curves, hue/sat, and levels with
Highlights, Midtones and Shadows selected for each

Simple Skin Softening for CS3

Skin Softening for CS2

Here's a new toning action using hue/saturation adjustment layers. It'll give you more control of the colors, and it's done in 16-bit

The_Portrait_Action combines several things including eye enhancement and skin softening. It will work with CS2 and above

Here's a new drawing/painting effect that'll work in CS3 for sure

Converts to 72 DPI and sRGB for flickr.com upload

Accents Highlights with hipass filter

Another COLOR MUTE and it WILL flatten your image and put the color mute in a folder

A simple frame action, photo must be single layer and as a background layer

This is the simple frame action but the photo is more top weighted and more room at the bottom

A WHITE BALANCE action. It leads your through a series of steps for PS to fix your white balance

Another eye enhance action that includes an EYE COLOR layer.

Another frame action that puts a white border 10% from photo

Enhanced EYE ENHANCEMENT, includes a highpass layer. To use it you'll need to set your quickmask mode to "selected areas" by double clicking the quickmask button.

A 10-10-10-20 percent frame with an matt-like inner bevel

A creep yellow effect with a slight texture.

Portrait action for muting colors, midtone contrast and slight sharpening

Midtones contrast boost for portraits.

I call this Portrait_High_pop but it's just playing with midtones, highlights and shadows

This is called the Gorman Black and White, but I added a sepia layer and retained original.

TG's Portrait Actions -- A set of three actions for portraits.

Dark Glare actions. Two actions one called TG-DarkGlar and the other called H-Dub_dark_glare

Red-white-blue posterize action. Of course you can , and should, change the colors

LAB high pass sharpening, color pop. It uses just the lightness channel in LAB mode

This action creates a PROOF watermark in the middle of your photo

ReallyPopaDoodle action just gives a high contrast portrait look

Red Channel Face Scrub... my own version from several tutorials I've seen

Scraggly edge around a photo

Fake Skin Texture -- after making it tooooo smooth add some texture back

Muted Soft Tones with color tone

Flat cartoon 10 colors with deep black

Creates a BLACK border around photo and a thin white frame

Light Yellow Effect..... this has three actions in it

Action to create color fringe on a photo

This action creates a muted color for portraits with white vignette

 

 

 

 

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