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. Before After Download the action and give me feeback, with some photo you retouched too.

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 [...]

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 [...]

A quite simple Photohsop action to give a painting effect to a photo with Photoshop. Before After Download the action. 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.