- Best deal we've offered on
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- Martin Evening has just released his new book on CS5,
Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: a professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
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- Topaz Labs has released
Topaz Adjust 4, the easiest way to make your photos
pop. (Our review gives a usage example.)
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Links to the most recently posted actions
- 3-D from One Picture,
George Rosema, 7/19/2010
- Edge Sharpener, Dan Gehlhaar, 6/10/2010
-
JJMack's Crafting Actions
(updated for CS4-5)
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Digital Backdrops for PSE,
Eric Chick from Shannon Beauford, 3/13/2010
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Bart's Lab
scanning workflow, Bart Luyckx, 1/31/2010
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JJ Mack's Image
Visualization (Newly UPDATED actions, scripts, and readme)
- Hallowe'en Fun: Sewn Body Parts, Shannon
Beauford, 10/5/2009
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Distortion Correction Nikon 18-105
(requires PanoTools)
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TLR Sharpening Panels for
CS4
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New and revised Topaz Labs Presets
Finding Actions
Action Central now subdivides full descriptions and examples of
actions into six categories in the left-hand navigation, "Actions by
Category." You can still browse through the entire list of
actions on our quicklinks page or find
them cross- referenced by developer.
Silver Efex Pro presets
Nik Software offers dozens of free presets for Silver Efex Pro. If you are new
to this great tool, you can download a free trial version. If you decide to
buy, be sure to enter "atncentral" at checkout for 15% discount.
Topaz presets
In association with the Flickr Topaz group, we are
pleased to offer presets for use in Topaz Labs Adjust Photoshop
plug-in.
Panotools Scripts
Thanks to Joel Karnofsky, ActionCentral is hosting its first
PanoTools lens correction script. If others are available, we are
happy to include them and, if we receive several more, will move
them to their own page. a target="_blank" href="http://photocreations.ca/panotools/">PanoTools
is a free plug-in.
Feedback and Action Submission
I welcome feedback or submissions via email. If submitting actions
or presets, please send the file, a brief description, and, if
possible, before and after examples. We are particularly interested
in hearing your results running actions on this set in Photoshop
Elements. Please
notify us of those that work for you and which version of
Elements you are running. We will list compatibility on the site.
