Jeremy Keith has a brief Photoshop tutorial that covers four simple but effective photo-retouching techniques. In addition to the usual step-by-step instructions you’d expect from a good tutorial, it’s also got all four techniques for download as a Photoshop actions (.atn) file.
It’s a shame I’ve only got the dumbed-down Photoshop Elements, which doesn’t appear to support actions, despite it registering for the .atn file extension and having the correct folder to contain actions (Presets\Photoshop Actions). Perhaps like everything else in Elements, it’s just hidden somewhere counterintuitive, and then completely omitted from the documentation.
I’m frankly appalled at the docs for Photoshop Elements. If you’re going to include an “easy-to-use” version of your software for bundling with scanners and art tablets, you owe it to your potentially neophyte users to provide the best documentation you can muster. Instead, the documentation is even more watered down than the application. Adobe mystifies once again.
Rants against Adobe aside, Jeremy does a fine job describing some simple photograph editing techniques that duplicate old school darkroom effects. I look forward to futzing with my own images using these actions.
via Boing Boing
