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December’s Action: Luminosity Curve Masks
December’s Actions come from the Action I used in the November Workflow Tutorial. The Action is pretty simple to use but comes with a slight learning curve. Check out the short video clip I have made...
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January’s Action: Refine Edge Border
Welcome to 2014! Let’s make this one awesome year full of pixels and paint brushes! This month’s Action is a refine edge border action. It places a painted border around the edge of your picture,...
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February’s Action: Cross Process
This month’s Action is a series of Cross Processing effects. There are 4 Cross Processing Actions total in the set: A general purpose Cross Process Action A Green Priority A Yellow Priority A Red...
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March’s Action: The Coveted Box Vignette Action
I talk about the importance of a vignette all the time in my tutorials. A vignette can be a VERY powerful addition to any photo as long as it is done well! What I mean by that is as long as it is...
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April’s Action: The Glamour Glow
The Glamour Glow Action is pretty awesome and can turn a somewhat decent picture into a pretty sweet looking one. Kinda like the image in the example. What it does is duplicates the background image...
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May 2014′s Action | Tone (Contrast) Checker
May’s Action comes from the Tonal Value technique I showed several times in the April Critique. With this action, simply press play and a Gradient Map will be created along with a Curves adjustment...
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June 2014′s Action | Prairie Vintage
This Action may as well be called Gold, rock solid Gold. Maybe not for landscapes, it does make them look pretty cool. However, if you do any portrait work at all, this Action will produce that...
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July 2014′s Action | The Works
This is the Action that started it all for me. I was beating myself up to find one action or workflow that I could use on every image that would make it better every time. For me this one was it. I...
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August 2014′s Action | Auto Dodge and Burn
Yep you read that right, auto dodge and burn! This is a lazy mans technique and I love it! It will automatically dodge all of your highlights and burn all of your shadows. It is pretty rudimentary...
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September 2014′s Action | Cold & Warm Contrast
I have been adding a lot of workflow related Actions lately and started to get the itch for some more creative effects. I built this one last week with the intent to make an image either colder or...
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November’s Action: Cyano & Sepiatype
Click Here to Download the Actions! Two of my favorite effects on a photo are cyanotypes and sepia tones. This months action includes a great action to create both! I call one the Cyanotype and the...
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October 2014’s Action | Pseudo Exposures
Every once in a while we find ourselves in a pinch where we want to use Bracketing to make multiple exposures for HDR, but we can’t. It may be a low light situation where you do not have a tripod, or...
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November 2014’s Action: Day To Night (start)
In the last Workflow Tutorial I showed you an interesting way to make a Day to Night image. While this technique is useful, it has quite a few steps that I forgot not even 5 minutes after showing it!...
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December 2014’s Action | Better Black & White
Earlier in November I did a Tutorial on how to make better Black and White images in Photoshop using the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. This is such a powerful technique to create better B&W...
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January 2015’s Action | Customized Radiance
This month’s action is similar to what I showed in the last Workflow Tutorial, however, it is MUCH more advanced and fully customizable! It basically creates an effect similar to Topaz Glow (when used...
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February 2015’s Action | Matte Finishing Effects
I have been experimenting a lot lately with Matte Finishing Effects. You can see these all over 500px. It seems some of the bets images have this odd kind of matte finish effect on them. In hopes I...
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March 2015’s Action | The Upgraded Vignettes!
In the last Workflow Tutorial I showed you can create a vignette in Photoshop and use the Blend if Options to protect the highlights. Well this month’s Action Package does just that! It is a new and...
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April 2015’s Action | Snow!!!
Okay so I know by now everyone is sick of snow… Sorry Vinny However, based on last month’s Project I felt the need to make an Action that will winterize any photo. The Action will do just about...
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May 2015’s Action | Curves Layer Dodging & Burning
About a Week ago on EverydayHDR I showed a technique for Dodging and Burning with the Curves Adjustment Layer. It was designed to be a short watch and a quick tip with a powerful effect. However, I...
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June 2015’s Action of the Month | Distressed Actions
Photoshop Action of the Month! This month I was playing around with rendering fibers and difference clouds in images to get different effects. I like to do this occasionally to see what I can come up...
View ArticleJuly 2015 Actions | Instagrammed Effects
Instagrammed Effects Yeah, yeah, yeah! Say whatever you want. As much as we pro photographers hate on Instagram, their filters are really fun! This Month there are 5 Instagrammed style effects:...
View ArticleAugust 2015’s Action | Gallery Borders
I am usually not a fan of borders. I think they can often be distracting to the photo and leave me wanting to crop the image. That is of course in critiques and places where the work should be...
View ArticleAugust 2015 Bonus Actions Package!
The Color Grading Package! This month you are getting a bonus Actions Package. The contents of this package come from the concepts described in the EverydayHDR free tutorial Friday for August 21st....
View ArticleSeptember 2015’s Action | Faux IR Filter Action
IR Filter Action Last month I sent a brand new Silver a6000 off to get converted to an IR camera through Life Pixel. In the last few weeks I have been developing an IR Filter Action in Photoshop to...
View ArticleOctober 2015’s Actions | Brushed Actions
A new way to make Actions There is a gentleman out there that makes some amazing actions, Jake and I both have been dumbfounded by how amazing they are. They operate in an interesting way, you make a...
View ArticleNovember 2015’s Action | The Compositors Package
5 Compositing Actions all bundled up nicely Last month’s Workflow Tutorial showed you all kinds of tips and tricks on Compositing. While compositing can be tricky, with a little help from some Actions...
View ArticleDecember 2015’s Action | Micro Detail
The Angels and Demons are in the details! December’s Action is a Detail Optimizer that was brought to us by Jeffrey McPheeters on the HDR Insider Facebook page last month. He dropped in quickly and...
View ArticleJanuary 2016’s Action | Painted Soft Focus
You paint what you want and let the Action do the rest! The Action for this month is another paint by number action. That means you paint where you want the effect to happen and the Action will do the...
View ArticleFebruary 2016’s Action | Dramatic Effects
In the past I may have created some dramatic style filters and gave them here on HDR Insider. However, these are the new and improved versions which come packed with 4 Actions that will add a hint...
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