Gang,

We have a new family member! (who inspired me to finally finish the Cats Photoshop brushes that I started to work on last June) Gorgeous little kitten, barely two months old, called Poomfoolyitzah! I know, it is almost impossible to pronounce so we gave her a nickname Poofitzah! I know, this is probably not much easier. Maybe we should have called her Curly. That would be easy, but what can I say…

Anyways, here she is. In her full glory! (more images posted at bsilvia.com)

She is totally thrilled with almost everything she could lay her paws on! But, those of you who have kittens will know what I’m talking about. We totally love her and as long as we give her food and warm home she will love, OK, at least - bare with us … :)

Anyways, as I announced here is the appropriate Photoshop brush set: Cats (15+15)! It’s free for all of you cat lovers, scrap bookers, etc, etc …

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Enjoy it!

These are, as always, HiRes, compatible from Photoshop 7.0 onwards. (I know, I will have to lay my hands on Photoshop CS4 but I’m pretty sure CS4 is downwards compatible so that shoul not be a problem for those of you eary birds who already have a copy.)

And now something completely different: Photoshop Action - Old Grainy Image Effect by me :)

I hope that you all know what Photoshop Actions are and what can those do for you. If not, you will find out shortly. They’re, actually, quite easy to use and are a real time savers.

Basically, Photoshop action is a sequence of commands that are executed in order to apply formatting, setting or some effect on the image. For this post I prepared an action that will apply an old grainy effect on image.

I made this action for HiQuality images. So, please don’t use small images and then be grumpy about it :) For successful finishing you’ll need a photo or image not smaller than 2500×2500pix.

First open your image. I used a photo of my friend Mirta, simple portrait that we made in my living room (as you can see, I used one huge red and orange bed cloth to serve as a background).

To load PS Actions you have to open PS Action Window on Windows main menu or hit ALT+F9.

Photoshop comes with actions that you can use, but now click on small arrow in the upper right windows corner to get the drop down menu

and go to “Load Actions” - then choose Old Grainy Image Effect wherever you seved it, on your Desktop or somewhere else (in PS they come in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop\Presets\Photoshop Actions folder).

Now, select the folder (open it so that the arrow is pointing bellow), and select the name of the Photoshop Action “Old Grainy Image Effect” and finally hit the PLAY button at the bottom of the Actions window.

Sit back and wait.

Actions will do the rest. And now we have one Old Grainy Image in sepia tone. You can download my Photoshop Action Old Grainy Image here without subscription for the next 5 days.

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I don’t know about you guys, but I really like sepia toned photos, they add some romantic and nostalgic atmosphere… oh, well, maybe I’m just old.

Have fun creating,
S*

P.S. This Photoshop Action is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3.

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