Its been a little while and a little quiet on the AllyKatDesign home front, but that’s because I have been busy developing more Hipstamatic inspired actions for Photoshop!! They have been going through vigorous testing to make sure that they work as well as possible and here it is

This action set includes the Pirate Helgi Lens, Pistol Film Border and the Red, Blue & Yellow Gel Pack.

From left to right:

Image 1- Pirate Helgi + Pistol

Image 2 – Pirate Helgi + B&W Super Grain*

Image 3 – Pirate Helgi + Infrared Fred*

*available very very soon!!

Go get your new Toy Camera Film & Lens Pack now!

DISCLAIMER! The Photoshop actions don’t use any of the HipstamaticApp content, nor are they endorsed or sponsored or affliated by Hipstamatic or any of its affiliates. All borders included in the package, are custom made.

Embrace you inner movie buff with this set of fun movie actions guaranteed to spice up any old image and make it look like it belongs in Hollywood. 11 actions in total, tested in CS3 and above, all which come with fully adjustable layers which we all love to make sure the action looks great on your image.

Movie looks:

300 – Day and Night Action

One Hour Photo Action

Butterfly Effect Action

Sin City Action

Twilight

Film Effects

Download it here:

I love the Hipstamatic App on the iPhone, but not really super impressed by the fact that the images are quite a low resolution. Wouldn’t you love to have Hipstamatic inspired actions in Photoshop to use on whatever image you want? Now you can!! BooYAH!!

This starter pack was inspired by the Hipstamatic Starter Kit and its films and lens.

Lens in pack: Johnny’s Lens, Kamahl II, Jaimie

Film in pack: Lina’s 1968, Simple Film, Kodat Grunge Film

Here are some samples:

And you can download it here!

DISCLAIMER! The Photoshop actions don’t use any of the HipstamaticApp content, nor are they endorsed or sponsored or affliated by Hipstamatic or any of its affiliates. All borders included in the package, are custom made.

Its been a bit quite on the AllyKatDesign front as I have been working on a new set of awesome actions!

Introducing the Classic Wedding Action Set.  These actions have been made with photographers in mind, that want all the classic glowiness of old school wedding photography. The actions can be run individually of they can be combined to make several different looks.

The examples below show the action results, with the glow actions being run first, eg glow + make it black & white.

Effects in order from left to right, top row: Original Images, Glow, Dash on more Colour, Make it Black & White, Add some Sepia

Bottom Row: Seeing Blue, Just Halftone it, Mmm Vignette, Mmm More Vignette, Mmm Super Vignette

These gorgeously crafted wedding actions will make your post production work a breeze! These actions work in Photoshop versions CS3 and higher. If there is a demand for older versions of photoshop, I can adapt these actions easily.

What makes these actions so awesome is that they produce layers that are fully editable. No hidden flattening of different effects or any other sneakiness that you can’t control, everything is there to be edited. All the filters that are applied are done as smart filters so you can go back and tweak them once the action has run its course.

The action set comes with a user manual, that details how to install the actions and what each of the actions does with some handy little recipes to get you started.

Further examples:

	Glow Action + Dash on more Colour + Mmm Super Vignette
	Make it Black & White + Just Halftone it + Mmm More Vignette
	Glow + Make it Black & White + Mmm Super Vgnette
	Glow + Make it Black & White + Just Halftone it + Seeing Blue
	Make it Black & White + Add some Sepia + Mmm Super Vignette

The Classic Action Set is now available in the AllyKatDesign Shop

I recently published an article about a new set of actions that I have created – the Lomo effect action set and I have had a bunch of emails sent through to me asking for a tutorial, showing step by step how to achieve it, so here it is

Difficulty: Basic – Intermediate

Completion time: 1/2 to 1 hour

Tools: Adobe PhotoshopCS +

Resources

Your image

or

The stock image used for this tutorial is from TwiggXstock and can be found here.

What you’ll be creating

Note: For Mac users, the correspondent keys for CTRL and ALT are CMD and OPTION.

STEP 1

Open the image that you want to create the lomo effect in photoshop and apply a brightness/contrast adjustment layer.

The settings that I used:

Brightness – 10

Contrast – 10

STEP 2

Then apply the following settings to a levels  adjustment layer.

The settings that I used:

Red Channel – shadow input level -39 and highlight input level – 223

Green Channel – shadow input level -39 and highlight input level – 223

STEP 3

Create a new blank layer and fill it with white, setting the blend mode of the layer to multiply. Then go to Filter>Distort>Lens Correction and apply the following setting: Lens Correction : -100. Leave all the other settings at the default.

STEP 4

Press crtl-shift-alt-E to create a merged copy of what you are working on. Go to Filters>Blur> Gaussian Blur.

The setting that I used:

Radius – 10px.

Optional

If you’re  so inclined you can also add a light leak to your image by using a gradient adjustment layer.

STEP 1

Apply a gradient adjustment layer to the top of all of your layers.

The colour I have used here is: #ff6e02

To create your own gradient open up the  gradient editor and place three different stops along the bottom like the screenshot:

1. location 0%
2. location  8%
3. location 100%

Then make sure that you have 4 opacity stops at the top.

1. location 0% with opacity 0%
2. location 8% with opacity 100%
3. location 20% with opacity 0%
4. location 100% with opacity 100%

You can also change the colour of the light leak or the intensity by moving the stops around.

STEP 2

Change the blend mode of the adjustment layer to pin light and the opacity to 90% and you’re done!

You can also download the lomo action set, which contains 8 different lomo effects and 3 light leak effects.

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And preview the 8 different effects in this post: Lomo Action Set

Here’s a couple of examples of the actions in action

Stock Image:  ~hatestock

Stock Image : ~Alraunie-stock

The Lomo Effect Action is also available for download at the AllyKatDesign Shop.

One thing that I miss so much is film photography. Its getting harder and harder to obtain film and to process it, but this isn’t a rant about the cost of processing film  this is about how to recreate the lomo effect!

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.

~ http://www.lomophoto.com/

I have created a set of actions to recreate this kind of look.

There are 8 different lomo actions included in the set, which effects you can see above.

I have also included 3 different light leak effects, they are shown here one their own.

Or you can mix the light leaks and the lomo effect together!

The image on the left is Lomo Action 4 + Add Small Light Leak Action.

The image on the right is Lomo Action 8 + Small Light Leak Action + Another Light Leak Action.

The stock image is from TwiggXstock and can be found here.

The Lomo Effect Action is also available for download at the AllyKatDesign Shop.

Welcome to the new AllyKatDesign Forum!

Feel free to come and have a look around, register, ask your questions and receive your answers! Make it your happy place that has all the answers that you seek

See you there!

Let’s go there now!

http://forum.allykatdesign.com/

Definition of frustrating: trying to re create sin city rain and having to trawl through a bunch of useless tutorials that just say the same thing over and over again! Never fear loyal readers, I have perfected the perfect sin city rain effect.

Here’s the first lot of rain that I came up with using all the tutorials that I found online:

Basically the formula for this rain is as follows:

1. New layer> Fill 50% grey
2. Filter>Add Noise>Add Noise, Amount 400%, Gaussian, monochrome
3. Transform: 500% with the little link button pressed.
4. Filter>Blur>Motion Blur, angle 75, distance approx 400 (depending on size of image)
5. Set the layer on screen, then duplicate and mask out the offending rain.

As you can see its pretty uniform rain, not very exciting and not at all like the rain that you see in the posters. The lines aren’t thick enough and it looks pretty boring

Here’s the rain that I came up with:

It all came to help with these two brushes that I came up with:

Sin City Brushes Download

Basically all I did to come up with this effect was the following:

1. Two layers with rain underneath the person, first on set at 25% opacity, the top one at 50% opacity to create a look of depth to the image.
2. Then another layer at the top of the image, set at 100% opacity. Just mask out any rain that doesn’t belong.
3. A new layer with the splash II brush across the shoulders and the gun.

Yay all done. Its so much easier than messing around with noise and motion blur etc. You can also change the size of the brush depending on how you want the rain to look, direction etc.

To finish the image off you can add some authentic sin city text and a quote from the movie that will fit in with the person:

The sin city font was done in colour: #ff0000, rotated with layer style>Drop Shadow, Angle: 141, Distance: 21px, spread 4%, size: 0px.

P. S. You can’t see the layer style in this pic unless you move it over to an area that has white in it.

The quote  was done with a shape layer, with the colour set to white and a layer style>Stroke, size: 10px, position:inside, colour black.

Find the sin city font here: Dafont and the writing font here: Blambot

So easy once you know how Enjoy recreating your sin city posters!

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve the Quick  Antique Colouring effect, that you can find in my latest group of actions.

1.  If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the image.

If you are working from the original image, press crtl-J. Name this layer Softlight.

2. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and apply with a radius between 5 px – 10px .

3. Change the blend mode of the Softlight layer to Softlight.

4. Open the Layer Style Palette and move the Blend If black sliders to 25, then hold alt to split them and move the other slider to 100.

5. Apply a Channel Mixer adjustment layer.

6. Move the Channel Mixer adjustment layer to underneath the Softlight layer.

Here’s the final image and two other variations on the same effect:

The first version is as described in the tutorial above. The second image has the dress masked out on the Channel Mixer adjustment layer. The third image has the skin masked out on the Channel Mixer layer, then a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer is clipped in to the softlight layer, with the saturation set at -100, with everything bar the skin masked out.

Here you can download the action on its own:

The Quick Antique Colouring Action is also available for download at the AllyKatDesign Shop.

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to achieve the High Saturation effect, that you can find in my latest group of actions.

1.  If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the image.

If you are working from the original image, press crtl-J. Name this layer Overlay.

2. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and apply with a radius between 5 px – 10px .

3. Change the blend mode of the Overlay layer to Overlay.

4. Open the Layer Style Palette and move the Blend If black sliders to 25, then hold alt to split them and move the other slider to 100.

5. Apply a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and lower the saturation to -50.

6. Clip the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to the Overlay layer.

Here’s the final image:

Here you can download the action on its own:

The High Saturation  Action is also available for download at the AllyKatDesign Shop.