Nova effect action with Photoshop
Here it is an action I used to get something like a nova explosion.
You will never get same results twice.


Download the action and enjoy. It creates a new document.
Give me feeback if you like it (well, even if you dislike it… but you won’t be published)
Photo to impressionist painting action with Photoshop
From Wikipedia: Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
With this action, you will be able to transform a photo into a impressionist painting like Monet ones.
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Download the action and enjoy, don’t forget to give me feedback.
Vignette effect action for Photoshop
Again, I am focusing about vignette/sketch creation wiht photoshop.
This action works well only on images with high contrast, and the final effect is quite good, in my opinion.
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Download the action and enjoy… leave me feedback and send me your artworks to be published on the site.
Enhanced sepia image effect action for Photoshop
I think normal “sepia” effect is too used in Photoshop, so I tried to enhance the effect and I produced an action that works quite well (in my opinion).
Just run on a photo, as usual.
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Download the action and give me feeback, with some photo you retouched too.
Photoshop photo to pastel sketch action
Converting a photo into a pencil or pastel sketch is one of the most challenging task to automate with Photoshop.
Here it is an attempt.
Run the action on a photo and let me know what do you think about it.
Please give me feedback and send to my email any good result you achieve to let me insert them into examples page.
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Download the action and enjoy.
Photoshop Lomography Photo Action
I am always looking for nice effects to give to my photos.
The “Lomo” effect is one of them.
From Wikipedia: Lomography is a commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, Austria for products and services related to photography. The name is licensed from a former state-run optics company LOMO PLC in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 35 mm LOMO LC-A camera employed an unusual lens which produced large amounts of distortion at the edges of the image whilst keeping the center sharp, and was promoted by businessmen from Austria with international gallery shows.
Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects — a trait emphasized by practitioners. Others use the technique to document everyday life, because the small camera size and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage and photo vérité.
The lens effect (although perhaps not the philosophy) can be partially emulated in photo-editing programs, such as Gimp or Photoshop.
Why not creating an action that to automatically emulate Lomography? Here it is!!!
I divided the action into two parts: the first one with just saturation/brightness/contrast adjustments, and the second one with edge blurring.
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If you use this action and are satisfied of the result, please tell me where to find your before/after photos to add them to my example page, and help me with your feedback.
This is a photo sent me by Tim Stet (www.timstet.nl) using my lomography action

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Photoshop photo to painting effect
A quite simple Photohsop action to give a painting effect to a photo with Photoshop.
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If you use this action and are satisfied of the result, please tell me where to find your before/after photos to add them to my example page.