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80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look

80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look
Photoshop actions are great. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style. With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. In this article, I’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that will add very cool vintage or retro effects to your photos. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action Vintage Heaven Action Vintage Dream Action Retro Cross Action Vintage Matte Action Faded Film Action Old Film Action Retro Style Actions (10 actions) Instant Hipster (10 actions) Prestalgia (10 actions) Vintage Gold Action Aged Black & White Action Glory Days Vintage Actions (7 actions) Muted Colors Vintage Action Old Tones (6 actions)

Create a unique Facebook profile picture At the top of your Facebook profile, you'll see the five most recent pictures containing a picture of you. You can use this section of your profile to make a more unique and original profile picture by extending the main profile picture into these recent pictures. As can be seen in the picture to the right, this profile takes a larger image and spreads it from the profile picture into the recent pictures across the top. This can be accomplished using the free Pic Scatter online tool. With this tool, you can upload any picture and adjust the picture to be shown in the profile section, the top five images, and even the wall. Notice When using this technique any time you or a friend tags you in a photo it will be posted in the top section of your profile ruining this effect.

Katie Evans Photography 5 Trick Photography Techniques High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging Photo courtesy of Unified Color What It Is High Dynamic Range or HDR imaging is a technique which combines several photos into one shot to increase an image's "dynamic range." How It's Done HDR imaging is primarily a software-based technique, and while you can create a high dynamic range look with Adobe's $700 Photoshop, there are easier ways to do it with less expensive programs. The Tilt-Shift "Miniature" Effect Photo by Lindsay Silverman Overhead shots of people, cars, trucks or other vehicles that look like miniature figurines. A tilt-shift lens, also called a perspective control lens, lets you physically change the axis of the glass element in front of your digital SLR's image sensor or film. To "miniaturize" cars or people in an image, keep those subjects in focus while leaving the backgrounds, such as landscapes or buildings, blurred. Long Exposure Photography Second (Rear) Curtain Flash Sync to Create Light Trails Infrared Photography Photo by Dan Havlik

Ways You Can Hide Your Public IP Address Question: Ways You Can Hide Your Public IP Address When connecting to the Internet, your home computer (or network router) is assigned a public IP address. As you visit Web sites or other Internet servers, that public IP address is transmitted and recorded in log files kept on those servers. Answer: Unfortunately, it is not technically possible to always hide the public IP address of a home network. On the other hand, it is possible to hide public IP addressees from most Internet servers in most situations. Using an Anonymous Proxy Server An anonymous proxy server ("proxy") is a special type of server that acts as an intermediary between a home network and the rest of the Internet. Using an anonymous proxy server requires a simple configuration of the Web browser (or other Internet client software that supports proxies). Numerous free anonymous proxy servers exist on the Internet, open for anyone to use. Related Tools for Hiding My IP Address

41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.

200++ Photoshop Photo Effects EmailEmail Have you ever wonder where is that photo effect tutorial you saw the other day and start searching all over the internet but couldn’t find what you saw initially? Honestly, i have. That is why i throw them all into this article instead. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect Photo to Pencil Sketch Effect Sin City Style Effect How To Make Your Own Vector Portraits Tutorial: Good and Evil Photo Effect The Making of Mystic Effect Transform A Person Into An Alien Effect Reflective Bubbles Effect Crack and Peel Effect Expressive Lighting Effect Displacement Effect Vector Composite Effect from a Photo Easy Watercolor Painting Effect Twins Effect Apple Style Portrait Effect Compositing Effect Dimension Effect Blue Glow Dreamy Effect Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions Effect Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect Electrifying Energy Beams Effect Eery-Eye Photo Effect Fairy Night Eye Effect Fairy tale Effect Make your image look awesome with a few light effects Fire Lines Effect Make Perfume Commercial

How To Use Windows 7 HomeGroup HomeGroup is a networking feature of Microsoft Windows introduced with Windows 7. HomeGroup provides a method for Windows 7 and newer PCs to share resources including printers and different types of files with each other. HomeGroup versus Windows Workgroups and Domains HomeGroup is a separate technology from Microsoft Windows workgroups and domains. Creating a Windows Home Group To create a new Home Group, follow these steps: 1. Home groups also cannot be created from PCs which already belong to a Windows domain. Joining and Leaving Home Groups Home groups become useful only when two or more computers belong to it. To remove a computer from a home group, open the HomeGroup sharing window and click the "Leave the homegroup…" link near the bottom. A PC can belong to only one home group at a time. Using Home Groups Windows organizes the file resources shared by home groups into a special view within Windows Explorer. Changing the Home Group Password To change a home group password: 1.

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