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More Good Photoshop Actions

I think that fractal sharpening alone is worth it! I'm about to order it. Thanks, Stacy!

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Glad you like it Fritty. I've been using Shadows Plus whenever I shoot under high contrast theatre type lighting.

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Thanks Stacy!! Those are a great set of actions. I ordered them both.

Definitely speeds up post processing.
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I'm still new at Photoshop... and I don't quite understand how these actions work. Is it like a macro (in MS Excel terms) that's already been scripted, and all I have to do is select which "action" I want, and it does everything for me?
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edit: $15 per action.. well, is it really worth the price?
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Yes these are sets of scripts that you put in the Actions folder. Then you click on whichever you want and PhotoShop automatically performs the action. If you don't like the results, you can go to History and click on the preaction poinr.

As I mentioned to CurranDJ, I first used these on a series of photos shot in a club with very frontal lighting. I've been using PhotoShop for six years or so but, the Shadows Plus gave me far more shadow detail that I thought I could have brought out of the image. You can do all of these yourself, but it's helpful to see where these kinds of adjustments can take you.

Actually it's $15 per set of actions.
Whether or not it's worth the money is really up to you
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To me it is well worth the money to be able to run the action on multiple different shots and be able to get predictable results.

The ability to increase/decrease exposure in 1/2 stop increments and raise shadow detail in a predictable manner is easily worth the money ... to me. The shadow action raises shadow detail without blowing out highlight detail.

Of course you can accomplish all of these same results manually (adjusting curves and levels using layers and/or the history brush), but it will take A LOT of time per image.

Like Stacy said ... the worth will be up to each individual.
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NIKON E995 27mm 1/6th F4.7 ISO100

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He's received my money...this was done with the Genuine Fractals based action, using the medium setting.

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said by tmpchaos:

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He's received my money.

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said by rockotman:

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Bottom line - there is still no substitute for a good, clean, steady-handed shot.

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Canon EOS D30 28mm 1s F3.5 ISO100 before

Canon EOS D30 28mm 1s F3.5 ISO100 after

That is a nice effect ... great action. I have purchased both the dSLR Tools and the dSLR Fractal Sharpen Photoshop actions from Noel.

They are GREAT. The dSLR Fractal Sharpen does require allot of processor power on large files. 2000x3008 300dpi files take several minutes to run on my P4 2GHz box, but the results are terrific.

Glad to see that Noel is continuing to work on more actions. He is very prompt about sending out update notifications to his actions.
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Wow, that's a really nice looking effect!
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