50 free Photoshop Actions for Portraits

Can these actions also be used in Photoshop Elements 7? they sound fantastic marjan

As far as I know - "Actions" are only a feature of the full versions of Photoshop - they certainly will not work with Elements 5 - whether this is different for Elements 7 - I can't say for certain - but I suspect not - after all Adobe are not going to give away - all of Photoshop's features at the knockdown price of their Elements package - are they.

But for those interested in portrait work and are able to use these actions - they should provide useful additions to their post edit work.

PS - just experimented with these actions (using CS3) - on landscapes and various other genres - they work a treat and give some really interesting effects - a worthy download to tryout - thank you Photoradar - pity other parts of this fine site are still in desparate need of improvement - but this download should prove to be a great addition to your software - I urge you all to try it out - well those with Adobe Photoshop full versions at least.

Just downloaded the templates etc. they are superb saves me hours of messing about thanks

What has happened to the 50 free Photoshop actions for portraits.The download file shows 0mb and nothing downloads. billcoulson1

Hi there,

I'm glad you like the actions. There is a way to get actions to work on Elements, however, most of these actions are curve based so they will not work. Sorry. I'll work on a set of Elements based actions too. Watch this space. Ben

Disregard above,re loading of actions,have now sorted and they work a treat. billcoulson1

Thanks Ben - looking forward to the Elements based actions marjan

Hi, I'm having a few problems running these in CS2. Seems to have issues with a "Make" command line.

Hi Psy43, Can you tell me which action you're getting this message on and I'll look into it this morning. Thanks, Ben

Actions are awesome, but has anybody else had a problme using action 21? Seems to turn my images a very funny colour with a vibrance adjustment layer and then nothing else. Certainly not celebrity glow!

Hi Gal, I don't seem to have that problem when I run it on my work or home computer. But, on my work computer I do get this message: "The command "Make" is not currently available" which seems odd, however, pressing "continue" seems to sort it out. I'll investigate further. Can you tell me what version of Photoshop you're using? Thanks, Ben

Hi Ben, I am using CS4. Have tried it out on some other images and they are better but still not what I was expecting. If no one else is having an issues then it must be at my end, I do get a similar error message half way through the action though.

I will persevere!

Keep up the good work though, the site is an excellent resource.

Hi Ben, sorry its taken a while to get back.

The problem seems to be with several of the actions - with one of the commands to make a new adjustment layer. It seems that whatever the specific layer is CS2 doesn't recognise it. You can continue the action as you say but I think it just misses out the command its missing.

The first command on the 'solarise' action is showing as 'adjustmant layer - type unknown' also the 2nd 'make adjustment layer' command on 'bleach bypass 01' - again type unknown and the 1st 'make adjustment layer' command on 'lith film'

also the same with some of the adjustment layer commands in actions 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49

i can give more specifics if it helps? cheers Simon

I also seem to be having a problem with the 'convert to duotone' command in actions 12-15, although it seems to show all of the information for that command and just says its 'not currently available'...

Back to the earlier question, Elements (all versions except 1) CAN use Actions, but not in sets. Actions are, of course, all written in full PS and the writer needs to be aware of features that match in both programs. Actions can use Curves even for Elements, because Curves are in Elements - but hidden. Actions for most versions of Elements don't actually 'need' but benefit from the addition of thumbnail files - PSD for versions up to 5, PNG for versions 6 and later. They are cross-platform (i.e. they will work in both PC and Mac).

On CS3 on PC I'm getting 'Set' and Make' unavalible on most of the actions???

Just logged in to download and find that both downloads are empty - 0Mb :( Any chance of resetting this?

Antwest - click on the link to download the zip file, it's definitely there (it's a small file, and our system currently displays downloads lower than 1MB as 0MB - this will change...)

Thanks

Marcus

Anybody have any more thoughts as to why these aren't working properly (see above)?

Back to the possible use of these Actions in Elements...... As they are in 'Sets', Elements doesn't handle them in the same way. However, if the atn file is installed properly in Elements (in the "photo effects" folder), it will show up on the Effects Palette. From there, if it's run on an image you get the warnings that the commands "Make" and "Set" are not currently available. But you still get the B&W control panel, with sliders for RGB, CMY - a little like the Hue/Saturation Adjustment box. Therefore, the world's your lobster as to which settings you might like and, after a bit of experimentation, you can choose to save, and later reload, the settings you like as Presets.

Saying Elements does not run on PSE5 is probably true, though - Elements 5 has always handled things quite differently to the other versions (maybe they farmed out the development to a totally different team) and even Actions that happily work in Elements 6 and later have trouble in version 5.

Many thanks for these but some dont work for me, im using cs3 and a fair few came up with one prob or another at the start of using it.