Plug-ins, actions, and filters, oh my!

[srwatters]

Now that I have graduated to full Photoshop CS, I'm looking for goodies to add to make the workflow easier and/or better. I'm a D-70 raw shooter on a Mac.

What are your favorite goodies (free or $) for Photoshop CS? (I already downloaded Dr. Brown's java stuff)

What do you think of Fred Miranda's stuff? (B&W and Sharpening tools)

What about Neat Image?

Any others?

Thanks,

[Silvernic]

I love the Nik Color Efex 2.0. I is an awesome variety of very useful plugins. The price is a bit higher than the free stuff though!

[LoungeLizard]

Favorites so far:

- Dr. Brown's Image Processor
- Create your own action for the Greg Gorman B&W method
- There's another B&W process with associated actions put out by Peteri something or other from DPReview. I've tried it and have mixed feelings about it (I thought Gorman's was a lot easier and gave me good results)
- Some of the frame actions - or create your own
- I bought Noiseware, though they have a "free" version (I think)
- Create your own brush for your signature/watermark

[Hogleg 44]

You might look around this site, http://www.thepluginsite.com/ and see what you can fine. Also a Google search for photoshop plugins should return a lot of hits.

[MyKey]

A few more sites you might find interesting!

http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
http://www.flamingpear.com/goodies.html
http://www.atncentral.com/download.h...e_Enhancements


Stumbled on this site and they have some pretty cool border action collections.
Cant beat the price
http://www.photoshop-action.no/bordergallery.htm



Hope these help and if you want more actions I have a ton of them, email me your mailing addy and I will drop a CD in the mail to ya!

[srwatters]

Wow guys! Thanks!

It's gonna take me days to go through all these.

[Abel]

Originally Posted by MyKey

#4 feivels gothic glow
http://www.rusticreflectionsphotogra...hic%20glow.zip

i use this one quite a bit...

[saroy]

Originally Posted by Abel

i use this one quite a bit...

I was going to say the same thing! The gothic glow action is great, and easy to tweak for slightly different versions of the same general effect.

[Jim]

I only use two on a regular basis that I like a lot: Noiseninja and lightmachine. They really get the job done for most pictures.

[MyKey]

Just bumping this back up to the top, I have had a lot of people asking about actions I use so I thought I would help them out.

[LoungeLizard]

Thanks for doing that...I'd like to add that Dr. Brown's Image Processor is now built in to PSCS2 in Bridge. Tools -> PhotoShop -> Image Processor.

[MikeWelsch]

I have this page bookmarked. You might find it useful.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...essage=7198904

[MyKey]

Great stuff Liteman24 thanks for posting

[Fred Clingerman]

I will throw in one I use regularly. Mid Tone Layer Sharpening, not too much just right. http://www.lonestardigital.com/mtlsa.htm
Mac and PC versions available, price is right too= Free :D

[Dave-RR]

I have a collection of 134 assorted Photo-Shop actions that I'll be happy to email to anyone that wants them. The zip file is only 507k (unzipped, it's 4.6mb). Links to many (probably most) of these actions are already posted in this thread.