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Executive Summary:

Actions are individual software programs that run Photoshop intimately, causing it to execute precise sequences of complex instructions.

One click and your image is transformed!

Over 600 of them are included with the eBook.

They do all sorts of fixes, improvements and illustrative conversions.

Some have over two hundred steps.

The eBook explains/shows how to make them work.

Results run from "aha" to "egad!"

Here you will find: Actions that straighten geometry--or ruin it.  Actions that expand dynamic range.  Actions that turn color into B&W film.  Actions that repair broken white balance.  Actions that reduce chromatic aberration.  Actions that do away with image-chip dust.  Actions that strip ten years off your subject without harming a hair on her head.  Actions you interact with and tweak endlessly. 

Actions that make you a SuperPro.

Actions that scrub out JPEG compression artifacts.  Actions that turn photos into oil paintings.  Actions that replace glass filters.  Actions that transform photos into cartoons.  Actions that put many of Photoshop's Filter effects on legal steroids.  

Actions that upgrade marginal images into 'Holy cow!'

Actions that pick up where Photoshop functions leave off.   Actions that rework images into scene treatment fx from movies.  Actions that add cross star effects: four point, six point, asymmetrical and scratch!  Actions that vignette and un-vignette.  Actions that combine images on a page.  Actions that make photo storyboards out of collections of your images. 

Actions that are invisible--yet make all the difference in the world.

Actions that shatter the glass covering the shot. No glass needed. Actions that you learn to make, modify and keep.

Actions that blur the distinction between reality and fantasy.

Actions that prep images for BW printing.  Actions that reduce noise.  Actions that push-process ISO—off a cliff.  Actions that lift shadow detail.  Actions that flatten barrel distortion, even complex moustache distortion. Actions that automatically airbrush your photos. Actions that add tuneable grad filters to your images. Actions that do things previously considered hard, very hard, enormously difficult and freakin' impossible.

Actions that tickle your viewers' sensibilities.

Actions that teach view-camera skills.  Actions that facilitate panoramics.  Actions that create graphic illustrations.  Actions that mimic Hollywood visual effects.  Actions that paint with watercolors.

Actions that sell images. 

Actions that produce exotic film frames.  Actions that make portraits into treasures.  Actions that turn images into neo-photo-impressionism. Actions that contain over 200 steps. Actions that turn a photo into --get this-- A butterfly.

Actions that reveal the vision that made you trip the shutter in the first place.

Actions that make halo filter effects.  Actions that imitate early color film.  Actions that make photos museum-ready.  Actions that polarize your skies. Actions that create true lens-behavior blur, offset and coma blur. Actions that convert today's shots into silk-screen prints on rice paper c. 1894. 

Actions that simulate controllable Lens Baby™ effects.  Actions that shrink your scenes into table-top models.  Actions that produce faux infrared B&W from color shots. Actions that dot the eye.

Actions that embed your image in a 35mm film frame.  Actions that draw your image with a pen. 

Actions that cross the line.

Actions that clean up after Photoshop's rare muddles. Actions that paint your image with a brush. Actions that scrawl your image with a crayon. Actions that sketch your image with a grease pencil. Actions that increase your photographic vocabulary. 

And, of course, many more.

Some examples...

The hot rod has gone all prickly. The clown is a painting. The flower is aglow. The Getty has been encrusted in blister pack. The leaves are being sucked into a rift in space/time. A gallery of viewers is seen in a time-lapse still (handheld, too).

Although iButterfly+Box (below) is most often used for portraits--especially for kids--it does lend itself to other illustrative purposes, here made with a detail from an automobile. Rollover the image for a different automotive interpretation.

Click for the variation that can make you a hero.

Here's a new look, in greater depth, of how a single image can become eight variations in just a few moments using the "Carnet" function found within several Actions sets.

A carnet is a book of tickets in the Paris Metro, sold for one flat fee.

In the iLiners -series, an extra Action, iLinerCarnet, runs the others for a book of results from one flat click.

Two minutes later, all eight finals end up on the History Palette, ready for you to pick out the one you like best. Click on the image to go to the special iLiners page.