Photoshop Actions to help you get the effect you want

A lot of the actions I use have been developed by reading books, web-pages and talking to photographers to pick-up some tips. I thought I would pass along some of my more favorite actions for you to use. Also if you don’t know about the Adobe Exchange check it out, its full of great free actions, plugins and other useful tools.

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Graduated Neutral Density Action

This is a great action if you don’t have a graduated neutral density filter. It’s a little complicated action to setup, so I added in a couple of instructions at the beginning to follow. Essentially, you take two identical pictures, one normally exposed and one under exposed. The action combines them and then adds a graduated mask you can alter. Get the Action.

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Sharpening Actions

These are a set of three sharpening actions. They are simple sharpening filters that are more dedicated to a particular scenario. This set of three are dedicated to portrait, landscapes and general photography. Get the Action.

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Orton Effect

This action is my newest and favorite action. I made this action out of an article written by Darwin Wiggett. An amazing photographer from Alberta, Canada who I hope can someday obtain his skills of mastering colors and emotion in his photography. Get the Action.

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