Editing and Highlight Recovery Actions

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Chip Springer's Digital Grey Card, CS/CS2  CS3+, Chip Springer, 10/15/2006 Digital Gray card example GIF

Allows color correction when there’s no neutral color in your image.  Digital Grey Card pdf

Danny's 3x3 Action, Danny Raphael, 12/10/2003 Example image

Creates a “rule of thirds” grid for cropping and composing images.

Danny's Save as Layers Action, Danny Raphael, 2/28/2004 Example image

Automates saving layers as separate files in versions prior to CS.

Demoneye Remover, Chip Springer, 11/30/2004 Example image

Removes yellow/green eye reflection from eyes of animals. Run the action, then, paint out demon eye with white brush and adjust left sliders on levels adjustment layer

Dodge & Burn, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 Example image

An  to use action for dodging and burning an image.

Dodging and Burning, Perijn Hoefsloot, 7/10/2004 Example image

Creates dodge and burn adjustment layers. Paint on layer masks in black or white to add or erase the effect, then  adjust opacity for degree of dodging or burning you wish.

Embedded Watermark, Shannon Beauford, 10/27/2007 Example image

Embeds a watermark invisible to the eye, but revealed when you run the read watermark action, Installation instructions in the zip file.

HDR for Dummies, Jook Leung, 5/28/2006 Example image

Automates digital blending of separately exposed or RAW converted versions of an image. Archive contains instructions.

Katrin Eismann's Fill Flash, Dave Jaseck, 2/4/2004 Example image

Automation of fill flash technique described by Katrin Eismann in her great Photoshop® Restoration and Retouching.

Kent's Colorcast Fix, Kent Christiansen, 4/8/2007 Example image

Fixes color cast without expanding, contracting canvas. Set includes separate actions for Ps7 and prior, CS+, and CS+ with high range compensation.

Redeye Remover v.2, Chip Springer, 6/10/2004 Example image

Removes redeye and greeneye while maintaining catch lights and texture. Also includes tooth brightener.

Rule of Thirds, Peter Birch, 7/22/04

Creates a 3x3 grid for editing and allows grid to be repositioned prior to crop. Rule of Thirds instructional PDF

Sheri's Shadow/Highlight Actions, v. 2b for Photoshop, Sheri Pierce, 2/1/2004 Example image
Sheri's Shadow/Highlight Actions, v. 2b for Elements, Sheri Pierce, 2/15/2004

Set provides two actions allowing recovery of shadow detail and highlight control. Archive file includes instructions.

Stinson's Dynamic Range Action, 2/1/2004 Example image

Increases dynamic range of JPGs, simulating capture of shadow and highlight detail in RAW. PS6+

Tungsten Fix, Eric Lincoln, 11/18/2008 Tungsten fix example image

Provides a one-step fix for interiors shot with mixed light sources with a tungsten yellow cast.

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