I’ve been having fun working on a brand new set of free Photoshop Actions to transform your photographs with various contrast and colour alterations. This collection of Cinematic Photoshop Actions contains 12 effects based on the colour grading aesthetics of popular movie genres, such as Horror, Western, Action, Romantic and more. The visual styles of these films are usually seen on the big screen, but we can replicate similar looks within still images with the help of these preset image adjustments. Load the downloaded.ATN file into Photoshop, then choose one of the 12 Cinematic Photo Effect recordings and press the Play icon in the Actions panel to process your image with a range of preset adjustments.
Using Photoshop etc on Western bot images - (Jun/20/2009 ) Does anyone have a clear idea or current clear guidlines on what all;if anything; is acceptable to do with image editing softwares on your western blot images? Removing background, adjusting contrast brightness, etc.is any of these acceptable? Thanks in advance! How To A Worn, Torn Photo Edges Effect. Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer. With our image newly opened in Photoshop, let's begin by duplicating the Background layer. Go up to the Layer menu in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen, choose New, and then choose Layer via Copy.
Written by Steve Patterson.In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to give a photo a worn, torn edges effect. Creating the effect is easy, requiring nothing more than a few layers, the Eraser Tool, one of Photoshop's built-in brushes, and some layer styles to help finish things off.This version of our Worn, Torn Photo Edges tutorial is for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. If you're using Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud), check out our.Here's the torn edges effect we'll be creating. Go to Image Canvas Size.This brings up Photoshop's Canvas Size dialog box. I'm going to add an extra 100 pixels around the image by entering 100 for both the Width and Height options in the center of the dialog box and making sure the measurement type is set to pixels for both. Also make sure the Relative option is checked so the extra space is added to the existing canvas, otherwise we'll be changing the canvas size to 100 x 100 pixels, which isn't what we want. Click the center square in the Anchor grid so that the extra space is added evenly around all edges of the canvas.
Click on the '100 Rough Round Bristle' brush in the Brushes panel to select it.If you want to switch back to the way the brushes were displayed originally, click on the Brushes panel's menu icon and select Small Thumbnail from the list.Click again on the Brushes panel toggle icon in the Options Bar once you've chosen the brush to close out of the Brushes panel. Step 8: Erase Around The Edges Of The ImageLet's begin by creating our initial torn edges effect along the left side of the image. I say 'initial' because once we've worked our way around the entire image once, we're going to go back around a second time, but we'll get to that later. Position the Eraser Tool so that it's in the top left corner of the document with only about 25-30% of the brush extending in to the image. The rest of the brush should be outside of the image in the white space we added back in the beginning of the tutorial. Click once, then with your mouse button still held down, drag a short brush stroke down along the upper left edge of the image. You'll see sections of the edge being erased away as you drag, creating the beginning of our torn edges effect.
Click and drag out a small brush stroke along the upper left edge of the image.As we can see in the screenshot above, the initial brush stroke didn't completely remove the initial straight edge. There's still a faint part of it visible, and that's due to the shape of the bristle brush we're using. You'll probably need to go back over the same area two or three times before the straight edge is completely gone.Continue working your way down the left side of the image by clicking and dragging out short brush strokes, always keeping 70-75% of the brush shape outside of the image in the white area so we don't erase too much of the edge. If you make a mistake and need to undo your last brush stroke, press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo it, or press Ctrl+Alt+Z (Win) / Command+Option+Z (Mac) repeatedly to undo multiple brush strokes. Continue working your way down the left side of the image with short brush strokes.If you find that the default brush size is too large for your image, you can change the size of the brush on the fly with the left and right bracket keys. Press the left bracket key ( ) to make the brush smaller, or press the right bracket key ( ) to make it larger.Once you reach the bottom left corner of the photo, continue moving around the rest of the image until you're back in the top left corner where you began. When you're done, your edges should look something like this.
The initial torn edges effect. Step 9: Duplicate The LayerNow that we have our initial torn edges effect, we need to make a copy of the layer.
With 'Layer 1' selected in the Layers panel, press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) to quickly duplicate it. We now have a copy of the layer, which Photoshop has appropriately named 'Layer 1 copy', at the top of the Layers panel. Normally, we should be renaming layers to avoid seeing names like 'Layer 1 copy', but since this effect is fairly simple and we have all the layers we need at this point, we'll leave them with their default names to save time. Click directly on the words 'Inner Glow' on the left of the Layer Style dialog box.The Inner Glow options now appear in the center of the Layer Style dialog box. Even though the name of the style is Inner Glow, we're going to change the glow to a shadow so we can use it to darken the edges around the photo a little bit.First, to change the style from a glow to a shadow, change the Blend Mode option at the top of the dialog box from Screen to Multiply. Then click on the small color swatch directly below the word 'Noise' to change the color of the style.
By default, it's set to yellow. When you click on the color swatch, Photoshop's Color Picker will appear, just as it did when we changed the color of the Color Overlay style a moment ago. Select black from the Color Picker, then click OK to exit out of it.Lower the Opacity down to around 10% so the shadow is very subtle. Finally, increase the Size of the shadow to around 24 px (pixels). Click on the layer visibility icon once again to turn the top layer back on. Step 16: Erase Parts Of The Edges On The Top Layer To Reveal The Layer BelowWith the top layer selected, go back around the edges of the image with the Eraser Tool using short brush strokes, just as we did initially on 'Layer 1', to remove more of the edge. Remember to keep most of the brush shape outside of the image so that no more than 25-30% of it extends into the image.
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As parts of the edge are erased, the light gray image below it is revealed, creating the illusion that the photo itself has worn off around the edges and only the back layer of the paper remains. Erasing the edges of the image on the top layer reveals the light gray area on 'Layer 1' below it.Again, you can change the size of the brush if needed by pressing the left bracket key ( ) to make it smaller or the right bracket key ( ) to make it larger. If you make a mistake, press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo the last area you erased, or press Ctrl+Alt+Z (Win) / Command+Option+Z (Mac) to undo multiple brush strokes.Here, after working my way around the edges of the photo once again, is my final 'worn, torn photo edges' effect.